Posted on 17 July 2008.
A misused symbol?
Glenn Beck, a conservative news commentator for CNN, has written a well thought out article on the Politcal Leftists and pop culture misusing and misinterpreting Che Guevara. In the recent mission to rescue FARC hostages, only one operative was wearing a red-cross symbol. The rest of the rescuers we’re allegedly wearing Che Guevara memorabilia so the FARC would identify them as one of their own. This article is worth a read.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/17/beck.che.guevara/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/17/beck.che.guevara/index.html
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Chris Franco - who has written 3425 posts.
Founder and Executive Editor of Hiptics. I launched Hiptics in 2008. I spent the last 4 years at Denison University where I hosted a weekly hip-hop radio show on 91.1 WDUB (one of America's Top 20 Most Popular College Radio Stations). I also served as Public Relations Chairman, Program Director, and Webmaster of the station. I genuinely love hip-hop, and have been involved in nearly every aspect of the culture starting with selling my own music in Middle School (haha, true story). I won the Culture Jam Freestyle Battle at Denison both times I participated. I brought Wiz Khalifa, EbGb, and D.Julien to campus for a free Hiptics show in January 2010. I've interviewed everyone from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to the CEO of Death Row Records. I've DJ'd for Wiz Khalifa and Sam Adams, as well as at countless parties and campus events. There's a lot more to be said, but I don't want to be THAT guy. My point is this: I'm not just another one of these hip-hop bloggers. If the Internet didn't exist, I'd still be in the game.
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“Like Che Guevara with bling on…” – JayZ
Yeah, Che really sucked as a revolutionary leader and was responsable for many many brutal deaths, but I think this popularity of the image originally was more an homage to the original photograph, which is a very striking and intriguing portrait of the man. I just hope people who choose to wear the shirts and hats with his image realize how ironic/dumb it is.
For those of you who haven’t seen the original photo, check it out.