“Coming Soon to HBO, the ugly truth about race in America takes a turn privileged white Americans may dread — the prospect of facing what they do collectively as neighbors is racist. Eat it, white neighbors!
“Togetherness“, the new HBO Charter School Drama.
The drama that dares ask, “Can Euro-Americans begin to try to resemble the minority they are becoming?”
Enjoy the attached article, quite informative, if you haven’t noticed it in your backyard.
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R
Kehinde Wiley is the most important artist in the world today, but this is coming from a modest art lover who holds JMW Turner and Salvador Dali in high regard.
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic is currently being exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, who note that his ground-breaking works, “…Raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture. The exhibition includes an over view of the artist’s prolific fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures.”
Wiley deconstructs masculinity, race and Western culture all at once, celebrating the human form as never seen before. This Michael Jackson masterpiece above, titled “Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II”, is the only ‘Class A’ celebrity featured in the entire exhibit, but more importantly, it does not need to be there. The artist gloriously elevates all of his subjects, people he meets on the street, offering them Western classical themes, but capturing their appearances in their everyday street clothes, breathing a new life into how they are represented culturally, tearing at current representations in film, TV, and other media.
Wiley is quite young for a successful artist on a prolific streak. At the age of 38, he is a Yale graduate who has traveled to many countries to create a body of work that surpasses most contemporary artists. New Yorkers are fortunate to share the subway with this talented visionary who succeeds in tearing down racist walls with a robust celebration of the average person.
Visiting his webpage on Wikipedia today, I was annoyed to find his work described as, “highly naturalistic paintings of people with black and brown skin in heroic poses.” I corrected the phrase to simply state “people with brown skin”, and future contributors of our great society should beware of making mistakes from the last century. The next revolution in our culture is well underway, it will be televised, but TV will not be the only storyteller.
Don’t just watch his work as a backdrop to the hit TV show “Empire”, go to the Brooklyn Museum before May 24, 2015 to witness a revolution in the art world as important as the Bauhaus movement was a hundred years ago. I have often been intellectually and spiritually touched at museums, but I have never been emotionally moved to experience JOY in a museum, until seeing this exhibit. Such joy is for all to share, and who would dare label this man “an African-American artist”, instead of “an American artist”, or attempt to marginalize his standing among his peers?
R
This mock ad is brought to you by Starbucks’ coffee – At Starbucks’, we think of ourselves spiritually and racially the way our coffee looks — brown and hot!
Starbucks’ ‘Race Together’ campaign won’t dare to drill down into specific matters we can sink our teeth into, like redrawing state voting districts, reversing the Voting Rights Act, fairly distributing federal education dollars, raising the minimum wage or giving former convicts work out of prison. We want you to take our social efforts the same way you take your coffee — light and sweet, dark and bitter, or anywhere in between!
The last thing we want you to do at our shops is think, change or grow, so please stop hounding our upper management with questions or complaints, we aren’t equipped to deal with them, which is why our CEO had to temporarily shutdown his Twitter account. We at Starbucks’ want to make you coffee, make our shareholders wealthy, and enjoy the modern-day Jim Crow society Caucasian Americans have worked so hard to maintain.
So whether you want to abstain from important racial progression, watch FOX News, attend Klan meetings, or industry functions, enjoy your OWN way of practicing institutional racism with a great cup of our coffee, no strings attached!
Love,
Howerd Shults
CEO
Starbucks’
Dear Mr. Douglas,
Here’s a top ten of my problems with your LA Times Op-Ed:
10. European antisemitism dates centuries back, BEFORE even Shakespeare’s time (hence “The Merchant of Venice”).
9. “Southern Europe” has plenty of other people that hate, not just Muslims. (e.g. Italian soccer fans treatment of Africans).
8. A poor economy is the LAST reason someone is racist. Wealth doesn’t make a population less ignorant.
7. Israel is, by definition, an apartheid state. When Palestinians get to vote there, I’ll stand corrected.
6. Blaming the internet for spreading hate is as silly as pretending your neighbor, Mel Gibson, has nothing at all to do with it.
5. The Catholic Church is directly responsible for the Inquisition, ‘a day late and a dollar short’ is a gross understatement.
4. The Catholic Church did not overtly speak out against genocide during the Holocaust.
3. Antisemitism survived World War II, do you have a better plan other than social confrontation?
2. Scores of Jewish holy sites have been vandalized over past decades in Europe without Muslim influence.
1. Your son’s strength is great, but his future inheritance is what will truly distinguish him. If only I could sue ANYONE….
Out of most domestic parties, this blogger defines himself as a libertarian, based on constant disappointment with the two big parties, and a fundamental desire to be left alone by most people.
David Boaz defines libertarianism as, “….The view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others. Libertarians defend each person’s right to life, liberty, and property-rights that people have naturally, before governments are created. In the libertarian view, all human relationships should be voluntary; the only actions that should be forbidden by law are those that involve the initiation of force against those who have not themselves used force-actions like murder, rape, robbery, kidnapping, and fraud.” (Libertarianism: A Primer)
The Libertarian Party, like most political parties, is impossible to respect across the board, as it fundamentally counts on the market or community action to deal with the less savory aspects of our society. The healthcare industry, for example, would be left to financially ruin millions of citizens, as Obamacare would be defunded, if they had their way. Backwards caterers would be allowed to refuse service to same-sex marriage couples, as the modern libertarian believes in a laissez-faire or market-based approach to resolve domestic issues. Moreover, big businesses would be trusted to regulate themselves ethically and morally — a foolish position, considering our inherent tendency to be selfish, greedy and destructive.
I stopped being a Democrat in the late 1990’s, when Bill Clinton passed the Telecommunications Act, a terrible law which gave birth to the monopolistic media giants we deal with today. I stopped being a Republican when I got to know George W. Bush, the worst American President we have had in the past century. I remain in a party due to the simple fact that I won’t be allowed to vote in any primary election without belonging to a party, and I enjoy voting. I will not stop being libertarian just because a rational ideal has been hijacked by people who would rather shutdown the government than make it work to everyone’s benefit.
Arvin Vohra’s response to President Obama’s recent State of the Union address seems to lack creativity primarily due to the fact that Republicans have been taking pages from their book for several decades. The Vice-Chair of the Libertarian Party veils a nihilistic agenda that allows fast food restaurants to pay low wages, insurance companies to delay disaster relief payments, and auto makers to sell cars that kill people.
Perhaps I have been a Working Families or Liberal Party voter who has trapped himself in a political closet all these years, perhaps my next political choice will only lead to further disappointment, but I am certain of one thing — our next President will not have a penis!
What do you think?
“To say it as plainly as possible: those who support change are anti-racists. Those who support the status quo are racists. So are those who abstain, since that too operates to keep things as they are.” argues Frank Joyce.
This lengthy and thorough piece — Whites Don’t Confront Their Racist Tendencies — should show any rational person how apathy is a partner to racism. If you are a European-American, and abstain from racial discussion, you must ask yourself, before I ‘un-friend’ you from Facebook, “How can I side against a friend on the fundamental issues of race?”
Perhaps that is not a question you want to answer, but if you don’t find it worth asking, why should I find you worth keeping in touch with?
Not Always Forever,
Ren
Race Against Race! 