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France urged to return looted African art treasures
The Local France ^
| 21 November 2018
| AFP
Posted on 11/22/2018 4:42:42 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
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posted on
11/22/2018 4:47:01 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Tell Africa that any artifacts containing ivory must be destroyed and will not be returned to shame the continent for the continued practice of poaching.
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posted on
11/22/2018 4:47:43 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/22/2018 4:48:01 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Seriously? Jar-Jar Binks and Admiral Akbar are modeled on African statues in a French museum?!?
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posted on
11/22/2018 4:51:02 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Does Africa know how to do anything at all other than COMPLAIN..?
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posted on
11/22/2018 4:52:24 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: BradyLS
And Threepio in the middle!?!
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posted on
11/22/2018 4:55:08 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS
AFRICAN treasures? Give them back.
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posted on
11/22/2018 4:56:32 PM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
The Local France: African *art*....you ARE sh!tting us, right?
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posted on
11/22/2018 5:12:06 PM PST
by
B.O. Plenty
(Give war a chance....)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
My aunt has some African art. I find most of it unimaginative and unsightly. There are a couple of excellent carvings, but not one painting or mask I would consider looking at twice were I in the market. Even the weaves are banal.
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posted on
11/22/2018 5:28:54 PM PST
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Im sure Italy would like the Mona Lisa back too and Greece the Venus de Milo.
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posted on
11/22/2018 5:42:53 PM PST
by
xp38
To: CondoleezzaProtege
And while they’re at it, they can return all the Africans to Africa.
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posted on
11/22/2018 5:50:17 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
One of my favorite pieces of African art when I was a kid was a cast iron coin bank in the form of an African male head with a hand that you put the coin into and, when you pushed the lever on the side, the hand pivoted and the coin was deposited between the head’s substantial lips. And someone once gave my parents a replica sculpture of an African woman with an elongated neck with coiled metal around it, huge ears with metal inserts to elongate them, and huge lips. The wood looked like ebony. Similar to the fretboard on my favorite old Gibson guitar. I think that the coin bank was a replica since the real original ones are now worth good money. There’s collectors for about anything these days. I’d even bet somewhere in the USA (probably in the south) there’s got to be a lawn jockey museum.
To: a fool in paradise; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
France would be better off keeping the art and getting rid of Macron.
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posted on
11/22/2018 5:53:57 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
If they were smart they would give those pieces to their invaders and send them back along with the art.
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posted on
11/22/2018 6:00:43 PM PST
by
Chipper
(You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
It all looks like the stuff your kid makes in school and then brings home. Not exactly high art.
To: xp38
Greece the Venus de Milo.
And the Elgin Marbles. Don’t forget them. And all mummies must be returned to Egypt. And then there are my Roman coins. I’ve got about 100 of them. Guess they need to go back to Italy. And my cousin has an E-type Jag. I guess that needs to go back to England...
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posted on
11/22/2018 7:06:57 PM PST
by
hanamizu
To: captain_dave
What do you expect from a continent where 95% of the people still live in mud and cow sh!t huts?
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posted on
11/22/2018 7:10:07 PM PST
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: BenLurkin
This looks like the store room at the local Home Direct or some such featuring ‘international’ items. Return ll of this crap and there will be room in museums for the Louvre to loan them some of the huge collection of Western High Art they have no room to exhibit. The carvings of savages look like the stuff of nightmares, the paintings and sculpture of European high art look like dreamscapes (OK Hieronymus Bosch excepted).
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posted on
11/22/2018 7:12:11 PM PST
by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
To: VietVet876
You know the lawn jockey was originally white? No joke.
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posted on
11/22/2018 7:13:59 PM PST
by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
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