Posted on 11/29/2014 9:37:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A college art project that had two men hanging from a tree branch with nooses around their necks has outraged and dumbfounded the student-artist's classmates and the outside world.
Christina Edwards, a senior at Sacramento State University, defended the Dec. 4 performance/installation that was part of a series called "Restitution."
"The purpose of this performance was to bring to light social injustices and the issues of inequality that impact me and my community as a whole," she wrote in an open letter to the school body, obtained by The Campus Culture.
Edwards said that, as a young African-American woman, she does not feel society has changed enough in terms of racial equality to foster truly equal opportunities. Her goal with the project was to gauge community reaction.
"I think it's more impactful when you use actual people, sends a stronger message that just a painting," student Alexander Richmond said to KTXL.
Her letter came after University President Alexander Gonzalez denounced the project in a statement Dec. 14.
"The university did not approve the display, and I want to assure everyone that I am working to address the multiple issues raised by this incident," the statement read in part.
Gonzalez added that it did not appear as if the people involved intended to incite violence.
Edwards said she followed appropriate procedures and created a safe environment for the project's volunteers. Faculty services also approved the display, she said.
The young woman said she decided to use white rather than black participants to "shine new light on an old but standing matter."
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Of course it hasn't changed -- the stupid black people keep voting for Democrats!! The Democrats were the people doing the lynching, and they are the ones keeping blacks on the plantation today! As long as you keep votin' for 'em, Honey, you gonna get what you always got.
What's "new" about it? She didn't know that lynch mobs went after white people too?
What opportunity does she feel she is being denied?
White people never got lynched before?
The guy on the left seems to be enjoying it!
I saw a piece of “art” at the Kemper Modern Art Museum: it was a tree with a bunch of dead birds hanging by their feet. Disgusting. Oh and a huge picture of a little girl with a black eye.
Why artists like to focus on the depravity in the name “thinking outside the box” I will never understand.
Did one look like Darren Wilson and the other look like George Zimmerman?
What this REALLY means:
“stuff like this never happens anymore but we still need to somehow stimulate your White Guilt so we can make a living. This is all we know how to do cuz we’re African American Studies majors...”
Marxist art... hang the ones you cannot starve, incinerate, blow up, shoot, work to death, or strangle..
i.e. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and literally every other marxist based demagogue.. or democrat..
Would love to ask her some questions along those lines. What rights are denied to her? Which civil rights are applied to others but denied to her as a black woman?
Would love to have these discussions with liberal black activists. If they tell us that society overall is somehow racist, please give us examples of the discrimination they have been subjected to.
It’s a metaphor for what they want to do to Darren Wilson.
“art”
Pffft!
I see art competitions/exhibitions/scholarships targeted to just women artists, just black artists, just young artists, just gay artists, just muslim artists... straight white males don’t get that special showcase.
The lady doesn’t seem to know that fake hangings can turn lethaly real in milliseconds. All it takes is occlusion of the carotid artery. Hence, not protected free speech. Stick to hanging dummies. Of course,that’s what the fake victims here were.
How about a long line of men representing the absentee fathers in the black community. Would be a very long line though.
So, in other words, the lynching that took place hasn’t stopped and all Whiteys are guilty for it because they are Whiteys and it doesn’t matter if the Whiteys who did it are dead. To be Whitey is to be Guilty.
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