White free speech and white creative freedom have been founded on the constraint of others, and are not natural rights. The painting must go.
OUCH…as sympathetic as I am with the African American community, I cannot sign on to this sentiment. That same freedom of speech and creative freedom enabled the Civil Rights movement and they are definitely not for whites only!
In addition to the protests, Hannah Black, a British-born artist, has written an open letter to the museum curators demanding that the painting be destroyed.
So the artist is American but not African, while this protester is African but not American.
Yeah, I think I'll exercise my white privilege and go back to sleep.
(But I suspect it wasn't blacks at the time that needed the open casket to discover what lynching looked like, so the "by blacks, for blacks" argument seems specious to my tone-deaf, privileged self.)
I feel strongly both ways.
OUCH…as sympathetic as I am with the African American community, I cannot sign on to this sentiment. That same freedom of speech and creative freedom enabled the Civil Rights movement and they are definitely not for whites only!
So the artist is American but not African, while this protester is African but not American.
Yeah, I think I'll exercise my white privilege and go back to sleep.
(But I suspect it wasn't blacks at the time that needed the open casket to discover what lynching looked like, so the "by blacks, for blacks" argument seems specious to my tone-deaf, privileged self.)