Must not depict black neighborhoods honestly
A Florida artist sat down to an hours long meeting with Black Lives Matter Monday after people labeled his artwork racist.
Jerry Sparkman, a Sarasota architect, came under fire for an artwork display of the Newton neighborhood along Martin Luther King Boulevard, reports WFLA.
The display, called “The Face of MLK,” depicts the Newton neighborhood and includes syringes, white powder and basketball shoes. Some people took issue with the painting, calling it “racist” and a misrepresentation of the area.
“This is how the black community is depicted, not as human beings, but as prostitutes and drug dealers. All to promote the stealing of and gentrification of the black community,” Ruth Beltran wrote in a Friday Facebook post.
Sparkman sat down for a two-hour Black Lives Matter meeting to educate himself and to repeatedly apologize for any offense he might have caused. Members harped on the painting’s “racist” qualities and asked Sparkman if he understood it was racist.
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4 comments:
And yet still those dirty dastartdly disgusting demacrats still wan to display the Cops as Pig painting. How about a painting showing demacrats as giant monsters stomping a city flat and eating the people
But I constantly hear the refrain of "authentically black" from these people. And every time it's used, that is the lifestyle that's implied by it. Furthermore, blacks like Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, etc. are considered "house n*****", "oreos", or "not actually black" because they've rejected that lifestyle.
No one should ever apologize for saying something that's true.
Forcing artists to fall in line with your ideology isn't fascism at all.
But a crucifix in a jar of urine or a painting or the virgin Mary with dung on it is perfectly ok right?
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