According to the book, “Seeing through Race” by Martin A. Berger, he claims that newspaper and magazine editors were more likely to use photographs that showed black people as victims rather than as civil rights defenders to promote the civil rights movement. In his view, this situation is because “the media could not assuage the racial anxieties of whites without affecting the depiction of blacks” and some editors believed that such images would maximize the interests of blacks. Berger is surely right about the media uses more photos that blacks as victims to arouse white people’s attention to blacks civil rights protection because, as he may not be aware, recent news have shown that a lot of whites protected for the killing of George Floyd because the media showed some photos that black people as victim. I think that photos showing black people as victims not only attract white people visually, but also promote racial reform in society. These photos make white viewers feel safe. What’s more, they maybe think from the perspective of equality for everyone, rather than the perspective of race first. That will make whites think that blacks who are victims also need to be protected and are equal to them. Therefore, that will make it easier to promote civil rights and racial reform.