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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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Obesity leads early death, which is good for the Social Security system.
It’s not a real person who has accomplished something - a person who is there by merit.
Nope it’s a black cartoon figure.
It’s no one who has accomplished anything except ‘being black’. What an embarrassment to people in the black community...
Looks thinner than she should be....
I’d be okay with Aunt Jamima.
Doesn’t look over weight to me. Looks like a typical American black woman.
The DEI statue.
So _itchy looking.
Compare to what Western culture used to do.
Big ass.
Needs to have an open mouth with bitching on a loop. Mmhmm, that’s right. Mmhmm.
Oh there is a contrast all right.
And it is NOT a good look for statue number three.
“Doesn’t look over weight to me. Looks like a typical American black woman.”
Pretty sad, isn’t it? I have known black women who have taken care of themselves and look great into their senior years.
Bottom line, it’s racism. Personally, it’s insulting to all black women to generalize them as sloppily fat.
The left loves to celebrate mediocrity (or worse).
“Obesity leads early death, which is good for the Social Security system.”
Overloaded on welfare programs.
Early death versus high medical claims?
I see Letitia! Don’t you?
Maybe she’s moonlighting as a Model.
At least in this pose, she appears to be clothed.
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