yo-yo ma, colin powell

Col­in Pow­ell was my first big news meeting. 

I was sent to pho­to­graph Yo-Yo Ma and he and his wife had come to the show. 

I re­mem­ber chat­ting with them briefly and be­ing su­per im­pressed with her hat. It wasn’t a big in­ter­view and the im­ages weren’t even in the fi­nal project edit but talk­ing to him, en­joy­ing the con­ver­sa­tion and re­spect­ing him at my job at a time in my life when I spent week­ends an­gri­ly protest­ing many of the de­ci­sions he was part of mak­ing was a for­ma­tive mo­ment for me. 

It was the ex­act mo­ment I re­al­ized that zero sum/all or nothing/good guys vs. bad guys ap­proach­es are of­ten the cause of dis­as­ters and rarely the so­lu­tion to them. 

Rest In Peace sir, and thank you for that gift.

—dar­cy totten

Flom­mist Dar­cy Tot­ten is de­vot­ed to il­lu­mi­nat­ing of­ten-over­looked voic­es and telling sto­ries from new an­gles. Dar­cy has worked with MTV, Spike TV, NBC/Hearst, ABC, Cor­bis, the State of Texas, Panthea­con, RGBB, LLC, KIA mo­tors, The Promised Band, ACSA, the NBA, sev­er­al Black Lives Mat­ter chap­ters and is the co-founder of Ac­tivism Ar­tic­u­lat­ed. Copy­right © 2021 Dar­cy Totten.

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