... “This has become the icon of this event,” says John Edwin Mason, an associate professor of history at University of Virginia. ... What struck Mason, an accomplished photographer who studies African history and the history of photography, was that this iconic image was not about Michael Brown. “It’s about resistance. Fury. Protest. Fighting back,” Mason says. “Michael Brown was nowhere in the meaning of that image. It could have been a protest over any social justice in the United States.”
