Whoopi is busy with her new role has The Penguin.
Posted on 05/07/2025 7:39:41 PM PDT by bitt
So stunning, so brave.
In what's being called a "contrast" to the two white men who have statues in Times Square, a new 12-foot statue of a fictionalized overweight black woman has been erected at Broadway and 46th Street.
Why?
The Times Square Arts association presents a big word salad on its official website for the bronze statue (it will stay standing until June 17) created by artist Thomas J Price, but then, buried deep in the word salad, we get an interesting nugget.
Email: joe.kinsey@outkick.com "Installed at ground level on a wide low base, the work invites engagement with the hundreds of thousands of people who traverse the plazas each day, the woman in Grounded in the Stars cuts a stark contrast to the pedestaled permanent monuments — both white, both men — which bookend Duffy Square, while embodying a quiet gravity and grandeur," the Times Square Arts group says on its site.
You guessed it. This is about race.
Who are the two white men that the Times Square Arts won't name? One of the white men is World War I hero Father Francis Duffy who became the most highly decorated cleric in the history of the U.S. Army for his efforts during combat on the Western Front in France. Duffy was honored with the Distinguished Service Cross for his service to the United States which included caring for wounded and dying men. The other white man is George C. Cohan who is regarded as a Broadway hero who was America's first show business superstar. NPR says Cohan should be remembered as the man who "created Broadway." In other words, without Cohan's efforts in the early 20th century, there's a chance there's no Times Square for the 12-foot overweight black woman to chill for the next couple of
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Someone should put an ankle bracelet or electronic tag on the statue!
She just started on Ozempic.
Whoopi is busy with her new role has The Penguin.
They left out the cell phone she would be loudly screaming into as she walked the streets looking for ‘clients’.
COST OF THIS COULD HAVE BEEN SPENT TO DEPORT 500 INVADERS or MORE
Looks like what would crawl through the drive up window after someone forgot to put her fries in the bag.
Paging the “Ain’t nobody got time for dat!” Woman
Uncle Ben not happy either.
Bet the only scales she can use are the on the trucking docks.
Aunt Jemimah was a working lady who held a job cooking, either for a family or in an eating establishment. Honoring working black people is not on the agenda.
Why not make a likeness of an overweight black woman who really exists? There are plenty.
Ha. Cutting edge for the Red Buttons era.
The Times Square Alliance is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization and is governed by a large, voluntary Board of Directors.
https://www.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-alliance/staff
Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, collaborates with contemporary artists and cultural institutions to experiment and engage with one of the world’s most iconic urban places. Through the Square’s electronic billboards, public plazas, vacant areas and popular venues, and the Alliance’s own online landscape, Times Square Arts invites leading contemporary creators to help the public see Times Square in new ways. Times Square has always been a cultural district and place of risk, innovation and creativity, and the arts program ensures these qualities remain central to the district’s unique identity.
https://www.timessquarenyc.org/arts/tsq-arts-about
Visitors and residents of Times Square have a new piece of artwork on view these days: a 12-foot-tall sculpture of a woman, titled Grounded in the Stars, stands at Broadway and 46th Street.
The bronze sculpture is the brainchild of London-based figurative artist Thomas J Price (Jamaican father / English mother). By creating the fictional character, Price aimed to encapsulate the observations, images, and open calls of New York, Los Angeles, and London.
The sculpture of the young woman is just one of Price’s works for onlookers to observe as they pass through the iconic area. Throughout May, Price’s stop-motion animation Man Series will be featured on over 90 billboards. The multi-channel presentation is part of the world’s largest digital public art initiative, Midnight Moment, and passersby can catch the nightly presentation on screens from 11:57 p.m. to 12 a.m.
“I hope Grounded in the Stars and Man Series will instigate meaningful connections and bind intimate emotional states that allow for deeper reflection around the human condition and greater cultural diversity.”
Grounded in the Stars is supported by the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, Morgan Stanley, the New York State Council on the Arts, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the City Council, and the Times Square Edition Hotel. The sculpture will be on display through June 17.
Photo of educational experience session in the 2020s....
Future kid: In those days before holographic images in our brains, wasn’t it racist to write on white boards?
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She was arrested briefly for misdemeanor “injurious actions involving torment of fabrics” but it was ruled that stretch clothing is exempt.
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Bald guy, pondering: “Should I go where no man has gone before?”
White liberals cater to the worst black people, because that’s what keeps them in power.
He better not. Those thighs would crack his head open like a walnut.
Ha.
Guy: If that’s the end for me then that’s the way I want to go.
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