Penn installs a 16-foot sculpture of a Black female figure at entrance to campus

Philadelphia Inquirer via MSN ^ | 11/10/2020 | Susan Snyder,

[Kid Shelleen]

The University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday installed a 16-foot, 5,900 pound bronze-cast sculpture of a Black female figure at its main entrance to campus.

Though in the planning for more than a year, its unveiling comes as the United States welcomes its first Black female vice president elect and as college campuses across the country hear calls to become more inclusive, as concern about racial injustice mounts.

“Its enthralling presence of Black beauty with artistic references to the African diaspora will draw the attention of everyone walking or driving past one of the most traveled corners in West Philadelphia,” Penn president Amy Gutmann said of the piece, titled “Brick House,” that was installed at the 34th and Walnut Streets gateway to the College Green.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Is “That” It? It looks like a Watermelon with a PEZ head stuck in it!

[Magic Fingers]

Curse you, EvilCapitalist! :)

[VanShuyten]

It will be harder for sure to pull over than a statue of a white guy on a horse...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My thoughts exactly.

[EvilCapitalist]

I see what you did there.

[Magnum44]

I was going to say a watermelon...ducking for cover now...

[Fresh Wind]

Penn owns other art masterpieces...this one is called "Social Consciousness":

[EvilCapitalist]

Lol! Gotta be quick.

[NFHale]

It looks like a giant, cheap Walmart lamp shade with dreadlocks.

[Magic Fingers]

I’m heading out back to work on my draw in just a few minutes. Meet ya tomorrow on main street at high noon LOL.

[EvilCapitalist]

My town has a Main Street. I’ll see you there. ;)

[bantam]

Wtf is that?
So glad none of my kids wanted to
Go there, but then again I told all of em, NO WAY I’M SENDING ANY OF YOU, or my $$$ to Filth-adelphia !!!!!!

[Starcitizen]

Only black Kummonus Herass has inside her was a Willie Brown deposit.

[stevio]

How do you know it’s a black woman?

[EvilCapitalist]

Lol!

[Noumenon]

Looks like the cap of a bottle of an especially vile local Nigerian liquor.

[Thank You Rush]

Did they use Michelle obozo for a model?

“”racial injustice mounts””

How come that’s such a big deal now? Must be the black on black murders or the white cops who are out looking for blacks to shoot? That must be it! I don’t remember it as such a big deal in the past nearly 80 years - (from 1930-2008). Only when the half white/half black man got to the WH and decided to stir things up a bit!

But according to Don Lemon and Van Jones, blacks need never again fear being killed by whites - that’s all been fixed with the (ahem) election of the “one”...Boy - how easy it was to pull the wool over people’s eyes..

Two very professional journalists - crying on what is billed as a “news program” because an election went the way they wanted!!! Tears of joy!

[metmom]

What a waste of natural resources.

[beethovenfan]

A hottentot, maybe.

[TigersEye]

Does it twerk?