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jonesable 
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Not necessarily but I didn't go to an exhibit to see this its on the Internet , it's in print.
I just want the imagery and details out there.
America seems to try to keep the inconvenient truths of our " peculiar institution" a secret and I think it does us a disservice.
Maybe the message will get lost on some people but that happens.
Tell the truth America
Edited by jonesable - Feb 01 2013 at 11:53am
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Statements like that are of course crazy but I normally separate the author/artist from her works.
I want ppl to be uncomfortable
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 Yes, art can be a form of resistence but Kara’s work is anything but. In fact, Walker professes a sort of love affair with white supremacy, both personally and in her work. After all, her show is entitled “My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love”. She has made statements such as “I believe the problem with racism in America is that we secretly enjoy it, where would we be without the ’struggle’” and “All black people in America want to be slaves a little bit”. She professes a masochistic submission to white men in the “Notes of a Negress” accompanying the work “Why I Like White Boys”. |
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/kara-walker/
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 11:54am |
noneyons wrote:
The blobs of black ink does her work a disservice as it does not depict anguish in the slaves faces. from the pictures in the OP, the slaves look like willing participants. But again, I'm not that sophisticated when it comes to this kind of stuff. |
Exactly!! That's one of the first things I noticed. You have a picture of a woman giving head but their is no expression on her face. How is someone to know whether that was rape or consenting sex? I call bs in all her reasonings for drawing this sh*t. There are other ways she could have done this without bein offensive.
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 11:55am |
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I understand your point Noney,
That bish is lost
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 11:55am |
danieb23 wrote:
noneyons wrote:
The blobs of black ink does her work a disservice as it does not depict anguish in the slaves faces. from the pictures in the OP, the slaves look like willing participants. But again, I'm not that sophisticated when it comes to this kind of stuff. |
Exactly!! That's one of the first things I noticed.
You have a picture of a woman giving head but their is no expression on her face. How is someone to know whether that was rape or consenting sex? I call bs in all her reasonings for drawing this sh*t. There are other ways she could have done this without bein offensive. |
How could chattel consent to anything though ? If people come to the conclusion that this was sex then they have problems too. There should be no confusion
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 12:01pm |
jonesable wrote:
Statements like that are of course crazy but I normally separate the author/artist from her works.
I want ppl to be uncomfortable |
Most people are uncomfortable with the truth. But I agree. The truth should be on display. The University of Florida has no problem putting on display items and images that show alligators attempting to eat black babies. They call it memorabilia.
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 12:03pm |
jonesable wrote:
I want more gruesome details of slavery.
Too many people think we just picked cotton and fetched water.
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^^ i saw a post on tumblr last night saying blacks haven't been through nearly as much as jews. I think yt believes this is what slavery was like
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 12:13pm |
noneyons wrote:
Sorry but this bitch crazy. Just did some research on her and she has been quoted as saying, "All black people in America want to be slaves a little bit."
Nah, shawdy. Too rich for my blood. |
Well damn! 
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