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Art? Or Overt Racism?
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Lol...I am merely posting my opinion. People fail to see why it is so offensive/ racist. To put this in context... Imagine 7 generations from now; a descendant of the one of the perpetrators in the Rotherham Abuse Scandal, create an "art installation" called "Victims of Circumstance: the sexualisation and exploitation of white youth". The artist creates scenes of where the abuses and crimes took place and all the live models have to identify with the depiction and they all have to be white. Now imagine they only show the exploited and not the exploiters and the artist says it is to educate the people of the historic atrocities. No way you say! Oh, but it must be shown as it is "Important Art".
FireSkies, //No way you say!//
No, I wouldn't say that because it assumes, quite wrongly in my opinion, that the majority of the people viewing the exhibit are entirely ignorant of history. It’s actually far more racist of the organisers of this protest in Berlin to question the authority of a white director to tackle the story of black exploitation, as they did – but that is overlooked because it doesn’t suit the agenda. Protests such as this do nothing whatsoever to enhance community cohesion, but serve only to exacerbate racism.
No, I wouldn't say that because it assumes, quite wrongly in my opinion, that the majority of the people viewing the exhibit are entirely ignorant of history. It’s actually far more racist of the organisers of this protest in Berlin to question the authority of a white director to tackle the story of black exploitation, as they did – but that is overlooked because it doesn’t suit the agenda. Protests such as this do nothing whatsoever to enhance community cohesion, but serve only to exacerbate racism.
lol, douglas, I heard that woman on 'j. vine'. Hilarious. For anyone who didn't hear it, Douglas has her to a t.
She couldn't string 2 coherent words together but the gist was that she was the only educated person in the UK. (reminds me of someone on here, lol)
They didn't mind her being racist to white people but when she started calling black people 'coco-nuts' they cut her off, lol.
She couldn't string 2 coherent words together but the gist was that she was the only educated person in the UK. (reminds me of someone on here, lol)
They didn't mind her being racist to white people but when she started calling black people 'coco-nuts' they cut her off, lol.
//Sara Myers, a journalist and activist who launched the change.org petition, questioned why the Barbican "want to objectify black people as subservient?" She said: "This is what our ancestors went through and once again we are the guinea pigs. We have this exhibition, but still haven't got an apology for slavery."//
Errrrm, surely the people who _needed_ the apology are all, long since, dead?
And, equally surely, the people who should have made the apology are, similarly, deceased?
When are they going to stop berating us for things our generation didn't personally do?
Is it art?
i) Someone worked to make a thing: it did not fall spontaneously into place (sorry, Tracie!)
ii) It serves no practical purpose, other than to be looked at and provoke thought.
So: it IS art, in my humble opinion.
Errrrm, surely the people who _needed_ the apology are all, long since, dead?
And, equally surely, the people who should have made the apology are, similarly, deceased?
When are they going to stop berating us for things our generation didn't personally do?
Is it art?
i) Someone worked to make a thing: it did not fall spontaneously into place (sorry, Tracie!)
ii) It serves no practical purpose, other than to be looked at and provoke thought.
So: it IS art, in my humble opinion.
I just hope I'm not indulging in "whitesplaining", here.
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/// Just a thought but...would it not have been more challenging to turn the context on its head by having white/ Europeans in place of the
black /Africans; ///
Do you mean white actors 'blacked up'? That would cause offence from two points, depriving black actors of work, and a 'Black and White Minstrel' scenario.
See my thread, the link that was kindly provided by Naomi.
/// Just a thought but...would it not have been more challenging to turn the context on its head by having white/ Europeans in place of the
black /Africans; ///
Do you mean white actors 'blacked up'? That would cause offence from two points, depriving black actors of work, and a 'Black and White Minstrel' scenario.
See my thread, the link that was kindly provided by Naomi.
Regarding the call for an apology for slavery, who's going to give the apology?
Why should anyone? As hypognosis says, all of the people involved have been dead for many years.
I read a review of the exhibition when it first started. The reviewer was moved by it, but I don't think I would have been comfortable staring at live models, whatever it was about, even though they are there willingly.
Why should anyone? As hypognosis says, all of the people involved have been dead for many years.
I read a review of the exhibition when it first started. The reviewer was moved by it, but I don't think I would have been comfortable staring at live models, whatever it was about, even though they are there willingly.
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