A Moment On The Metro - by Sean Bonner

I took this photo of my family in 2010 while we were living just outside of Paris. We were heading home after a day in the park and there was a sweet moment with a gentleman sitting next to us, which I photographed. I uploaded it to my personal Flickr account and sent it to a few friends. A few years later we started getting emails from friends asking if we thought the subject of a meme floating around looked familiar - it did, as someone had used my photo, retitling it **NO ONE IS BORN RACIST**. Since then it's never stopped spreading. It's been seen by millions of people around the world with all kinds of bias and assumptive narratives imposed upon it. My wife, Tara, [wrote about the expe...View all