They will use this gal as the model.
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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Sending a message to the black community that the most notable about you is an over weight welfare woman.
Good message.
They will use this gal as the model.
truth
Even Oprah Winfrey would be a better model for that statue-successful show host, actress in a couple of good movies, etc...
LMAO! Thanks for the humor before I turn in for the night...
It should be a Disney animatronic of fatso twerking.
Shouldn’t she be crawling through the drive-through window at McDonalds?
I saw her do a cabaret act at the Regency Room in NYC with her husband and Jimmy Webb in 2003. She was 60 years old then in spectacular voice and stunningly beautiful.
Throw chicken and biscuits and watermelon at her feet as an offering...😇 and it also could feed the local homeless.
An obese, NOBODY, statue of a supposed negro woman is the height of ridiculousness and meaningless; not to mention highly OFFENSIVE in the extreme!
Spot on!
That was my first thought.
Once again, New York City leftists openly mock black American women while pretending to support them.
RE: I’d be okay with Aunt Jemima.
Her likeness was on flour and pancake mixes from 1888 until the PepsiCo/Quaker Oats company made them “Pearl Milling” in 2021.
Like Uncle Ben and the woman on Land O Lakes butter, they couldn’t make it past the woke era.
A little park five minutes walk from me had to change its name because the city rulers found a mid 1800s paper the man wrote which failed to attack slavery strongly enough. They had to actively search hard to find that problem.
Unlike the Margaret Sanger bust in the National Portrait Gallery which will stay despite a move by “conservatives and opponents of Planned Parenthood” who had called on it to be removed due to her deliberate plan to place more abortion places in easy access distance from black women’s neighborhoods to help purify the race by eliminating the black people she said were diluting the quality of the white race including that Sanger “advocated selective breeding and sterilization to eliminate what proponents saw as inferior traits.”-—NPR reported.
Ha. You talkin’ ‘bout sass?
Great post.
Too late for Norman Rockwell (1894-1978).
Saturday Evening Post is still in print, though. I subscribe.
Oh, man, now I have to unthink that image. No offense.
Yes, I agree.
RE: Marilyn McCoo.
I liked her a lot, too. A classy type of beauty.
Saw her in person with the Fifth Dimension at her peak-—which lasted a long time. One of the great voices in pop music.
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