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^I kno most of yall won't agree but the last paragraph reminds me of Django
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 12:57pm |
off topic, but meanwhile the KKK is going door to door in Wilmington passing out recruitment letters.
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 12:58pm |
On that note, here's a link to a website that showcases postcards the sick f*cks made of lynchings http://withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
 BeatriceBean wrote:
pattigurlatl wrote:
Exactly. Show more of the brutality. Sure its hard to digest but it happened. Like what if she were to do a depiction of the pregnant black woman who was lynched and whose baby was cut out of the womb and stomped to death by white racists. Maybe just reading about it isn't enough to understand the brutality of racists.
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I'm going to compile some of her pieces and send them to you soon. This actually sounds very familiar and I think that she's done something similar. |
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 1:00pm |
As an African-American man under 30, my personal reaction to Kara
Walker’s work is one of absolute disgust.
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In fact, Walker professes a sort of love affair with white supremacy,
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Interesting......
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 1:02pm |
jonesable wrote:
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 |
The point being
You can't just have a picture of a woman in bent over, or sucking some dick, and claim it "represents" the rape they went through. Their is no emotion or facial expressions in some of these pictures whatsoever. I know it isn't consensual, I never said it was. I'm saying, that when someone has a controversial picture like this, there needs to be some clarity in what the slaves are feeling and going through.
Everyone isn't black and they don't know our history. I'd be even willing to say a lot of non-blacks don't even know that slaves were raped and mutilated by slave owners, so if a person who doesn't know any better sees some of these, they aren't going to automatically think "rape". I don't fault them for that nor do I believe "they have problems" if they don't see it as we do. It is the Artist responsibility to convey the meanings behind art like this, not the person viewing the art responsibility to know slave history and understand what she is trying to say.
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 1:02pm |
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yt homelands????? they can always go back to the caves...or wherever the hell they mysteriously appeared from....stupid f*ckers...
Edited by ThoughtCouture - Feb 01 2013 at 1:02pm
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I think the white pop. needs to get to 5% worldwide
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That picture was disgusting. This is why I will never understand some black folks desire to fraternize and be accepted by white people so much. In essence this is what many of them think of us.
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 1:08pm |
i don't like the painting. but im not a big art buff either.
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Posted: Feb 01 2013 at 1:09pm |
danieb23 wrote:
jonesable wrote:
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 |
The point being
You can't just have a picture of a woman in bent over, or sucking some dick, and claim it "represents" the rape they went through. Their is no emotion or facial expressions in some of these pictures whatsoever. I know it isn't consensual, I never said it was. I'm saying, that when someone has a controversial picture like this, there needs to be some clarity in what the slaves are feeling and going through.
Everyone isn't black and they don't know our history. I'd be even willing to say a lot of non-blacks don't even know that slaves were raped and mutilated by slave owners, so if a person who doesn't know any better sees some of these, they aren't going to automatically think "rape". I don't fault them for that nor do I believe "they have problems" if they don't see it as we do. It is the Artist responsibility to convey the meanings behind art like this, not the person viewing the art responsibility to know slave history and understand what she is trying to say. |
I never said you said anything. And I disagree that isn't the artists responsibility people will come to their own conclusions about the meaning behind a work. I believe authorial intent holds no weight after that work is published. Yes ppl have a problem if they view a slave having sex with his " master" as consensual sex( if they recognize the person as a slave) There is no wiggle room there.
Edited by jonesable - Feb 01 2013 at 1:14pm
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