Posted on 12/23/2017 8:39:15 AM PST by Joe Dallas
The royal, who married the Queen's first cousin, attended a Christmas banquet at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday wearing a blackamoor brooch. Prince Harry's fiancée, Meghan Markle, who is mixed-race, was also a guest at the lunch. A spokesman said the princess "is very sorry and distressed that it has caused offence". Blackamoor figures and sculptures are exotic figures which usually depict African men and were prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Yes, that is racist.
Seems a little weird. A brooch of a head of someone, and a white woman is wearing a black woman, as she appears with the first black princess to be? Id think shed have enough jewelry to not wear that one that night. Its like that church dinner for the black community in the USA recently where they chose cotton bolls as every tables centerpiece. Just not very brightly thought out.
The people complaining are the same ones who complain that the black keys on a piano are shorter than the white ones.
And how many American Millennials are going to see one of those and even know what it is?
How long before the left goes on a Taliban-like rampage to destroy all art work that depicts black people? “The Gulf Stream” by Winslow Homer comes immediately to mind.
Some would say, “Absolutely!”.
But, if you are an aficionado of Antiques Roadshow or other Antique and Americana “Pickers” shows, you will soon learn that your canister set is an item that is characterized in the antique market as “negritude”, and is rapidly gaining in popularity and market value.
The largest consumers of this particular kind of American Folk Art are wealthy, upper-middle-class Black Americans.
It would seem that you might have an item of value there, FRiend! :-)
And, of course, to the leftist SJW, your figurines are RACISS, and therefore, so are YOU! /s
Yes. I found it. Thanks, FRiend! :-)
And she has a history of telling blacks in New York to go back to the colonies.
Put the two incidents together, and she is either stupid or a racist.
“...anyone can be condemned at any time for anything. Its like living in North Korea.”
Bingo.
Many people awaken each day with the hope that they find something to be offended by.
Look up her biography. She’s no dolt. One of her accomplishments is books she’s written about European royalty. They’re very good....well written and well researched.
Right. There are stupid racists. Maybe all real racists are stupid, actually.
What about having a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup on the kitchen counter? Is that racist?
“Look up her biography. Shes no dolt. One of her accomplishments is books shes written about European royalty. Theyre very good....well written and well researched.”
She told a group of blacks in the United States to go back to the colonies.
That makes her a dolt.
yes, it belongs in the cupboard
What a horrible, terrible faux pas, if indeed it was that.
If somehow evidence turns up that it was worn on purpose, her wedding invitation (I would imagine she got one) should be revoked.
They cost a lot (for me) but I think they are freshly made by some local people here in Clovis, CA. I'd love to get a hold of some real antique ones for my plantation. Some of the younger gals are getting kinda uppity and need the stern hand and leadership of more senior personnel.
What I REALLY want is a lawn jockey to put out on my front patio. It's kinda awesome with a Japanese maple providing shade and a couple of chairs. I need a fellow to scare off the friggin' Jehovah witnesses that won't leave me alone.
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