The Bee is too funny!!
And you thought such statues existed only in “Idiocracy” !!!!
Shouldn’t have been a giant hair straightener and then next to it a giant wig (we’ve all seen jerry springer?-) and then a giant hair extension?-)
I remember in high school in the early 1970s the brothers walking around with a hair pick like that stuck in their hair. It also made a good weapon too.
Looks like the real Black Power comes in a bottle of hair straightener.
Maybe the negroes will bring back the conk. We used to watch them put the goop on Saturday afternoons around 1960 when visiting my aunt who lived in the projects because she was married to a non worker.
Lafayette Square is/was a beautiful, historic place for ALL of us.
Must these people pollute everything.
This is about as racist as I can imagine....
i’d think, that’d be racsis... did they get pranked or something?
From a constituent:
So let me get this straight, you just spent $7.2 million on art when NOPD has to have 12 hour shifts bc there aren’t enough police in our city. As of this week, 135 homicides & 236 armed robberies. The streets are filled with potholes that damage people’s cars.
The sewage problem is the worst ever in history. Uptown New Orleans floods when it rains. Don’t get me wrong I love art, however your priority should not be art. 💁🏻♀️ it’s a slap in the face to the men and women who protect you and our city. Just saying
So they’re embarrassing themselves by turning what could be a marginally respectable recognition into a full-blown cartoon. Good job, you idiots. And you demand “respect”.
BTW, I have a black power pick exactly like that in my purse for when I wear wigs.
How are all the black women who get their hair treated, colored, and wear wigs, and such so they can look more like white women, relate to that?
E. Pluribus Unum was kind enough to create the link to the mayor’s Twitter page, (which I couldn’t do) so you can see it’s really from her!🙂
Sorry but what does this mean? How does this relate to blacks?
Hair pick? For what? Lice? Seems really demeaning to me.
Hey New Orleans - take down this offensive statue!
A Ku Klux Klan Grand freakin Dragon couldn’t have designed a more insulting statue than that. These people are totally cra cra with IQs of about 75.
One more reason not to go to that shithole.
https://www.theroot.com/the-black-workforce-by-the-numbers-1790876971
1. In total, black Americans make up about 12 percent of the workforce. That’s about 18,758,000 black Americans in a workforce of about 155 million people.
2. African Americans are overrepresented in the federal government, which was one of the first sectors to integrate. Just over 20 percent of the black workforce is employed by federal, state and local governments.
3. Sixty-four percent of black female workers are in white-collar positions. Fifty percent of black men hold similar positions.
4. When it comes to blue-collar jobs, 36 percent of black men are employed in that sector, compared with 8 percent of black women.
5. The unemployment rate for black teens remains higher than that of white teenagers. As of July 2014, the unemployment rate for black teenagers ages 16-19 was 34.9 percent, while the unemployment rate for white teens was 18.3 percent.
6. Nearly 30 percent of black workers are employed in education, health care or social assistance.
7. Although black Americans’ employment rate lags behind that of white workers at every educational level, the gaps are smaller for those with higher education. For example, the unemployment rate for African Americans with a college degree stands at 7.1 percent, compared with 3.9 percent for white Americans. Black Americans with only a high school diploma are experiencing a 15.5 percent unemployment rate, compared with 8.4 percent for white Americans with just a high school diploma.
8. The overall percentage of black Americans in the workforce, at 61.7 percent as of July 2014, is the lowest among all racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. This is not a new phenomenon: Black unemployment has been higher than that of white Americans and Latinos for 40 years.
9. The average weekly pay for black men is $653. For black women, it’s $595.
10. Black Americans make up just 2 percent of high-level executives in Fortune 500 companies.
This is 2014 data, it is surely much higher now. Tell me again where the pre-judging is going on in Government? It is against whites in all areas but the very top, where the elites don’t allow blacks (lower case b) to enter in anything but a minor pct.
These idiots seem proud of this insulting piece of sculpture. Is that a clenched fist symbol at the top of the handle? If so, that makes the sculpture appearing to suggest that the hair pick is being used as a weapon to symbolically stab someone.
Hair Pick?
Not a Prison Shiv?