they want made up history. Sidney Poitier discovered America or something.
It must really suck when you finally get that adopting the cultural habits of winners makes you a winner and adopting the cultural habits of losers makes you a loser, no matter your sex, color, creed or national origin, eh?
“Aya said. “We are looking at history through the lens of these powerful, white men. I have no power or agency as a black woman, so where do I fit in?”
It’s real simple, you 50 IQ twit. Without white men, you’d be running around the prairie or savanna, take your pick, wearing a loin cloth and chucking spears at zebras or buffalo. Take your pick. And don’t leave the lights on in your room. Lights are also a white man’s invention, moron.
Re: “primitive art”
Some time ago, I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Goggled at the artworks there, including a number of medieval-era European tapestries that were interwoven with gold thread. The number of masterpieces - mostly European - were too many to count.
There was a “special exhibit” of African art as well. A double handful of crude wooden masks that had been fingerpainted and a stick with a couple of feathers glued to the end of it. Looked like a poorly done preschool art project.
Primitive art, indeed.
Waiting for that list of accomplishments by those who are left out.
Crickets........
And yes, I know of some who broke out if their CULTURAL jail and produced good things. Problem is, these idiots (who are not college capable) do not.
Compare European classical masterpieces from the great composers to the music native to Africa. There is no comparison, and history should be recording Man’s greatest achievements. Primitive works of art and music are a curiosity, but in no way should be mentioned in the same breath as the best produced by humans.
Sounds like she’s living on the wrong continent. That could be corrected pretty easily.
“a label she did not speak up against because she was tired of already having worked that day to address so many other instances of racism and discrimination”
I bet Aya is REAL popular with her teachers and fellow students ...
Wow, last night the Columbia Spectator removed all comments and then locked the article from further comment. No doubt because there were nearly a hundred lengthy, brilliant, and erudite comments that completely shredded Aya and her ilk. No doubt a few of the delicate snowflakes played their racist cards, felt microaggressed, and realized their “safe zones” had been violated by those mean, ol’ nasty words that were breaking their bones.
Ya just gotta love the “free exchange” of ideas being fostered by the self-proclaimed “one of America’s most elite institutions of learning”.