[proust]

Price, whose past works are typified by naturalistic sculptures of BAME males (pictured, above), told the Guardian he hoped the statues would highlight a deficit of non-white statues in Britain, asserting that “representation is incredibly important”.

“It’s been so lacking, we just haven’t had it. You can count on one hand the number of public sculptures of statues of non-white people, and it’s even worse for black people. You have to be Nelson Mandela. It’s incredible. And yet that is just seen as normal,” he said.

[blueplum]

of course it’s normal. How many statues or memorials of white folk are in Africa or Turkey? India’s got one of the Queen, that’s about it.

What modern people can’t seem to grasp is, the entire world was segregated 200 years ago, the entire world was racist 200 years ago. Nobody had their arms open for europeans. Tired of apologizing for having a country and culture.

[Boogieman]

Gee, I wonder how many statues of white people we’d find erected in Namibia or Mongolia?