" Their gloves lightly touched and the Black subject's locs sat up like a crown on his head.After reading more about the image, I learned the other man in the portrait was Jean-Michel Basquiat.Curious about his connection, I googled "Jean-Michel Basquiat," and with each page of search results, I found dynamic, extraordinary paintings that fused text and image. I thought, I've found the Black Warhol! Then, it occurred to me: How did I know about Andy Warhol and not know about "the Black Warhol"?Where had this information been hiding?"
-The only time I had learned about Black artists was by my own research or from class lectures. Black artists have no where near representation, and the ones that are noticed are highly cricized or mock by media. The times I seen protraits of Black people that are praised are when they are drawn by an white artist.
"Then, just as I began to regret the post, he went on to explain that I had also made my classmates feel "uncomfortable" during the discussion. I retorted, explaining that I was upset the conversation had quickly turned into a support circle for white guilt. He looked at me and said, 'If you wanted to be in a classroom with other students of color then you should not have enrolled in art history classes.'"
- Reading this passage from the book reminds the time I made people "upset" or "uncomfortable" when their actions or words offended me and I called them for their behavior. Especially when it come to white people saying the "n-word" around me and I told to stop. Still remember the argument to this about from about that it was ok from a white influencer to say the "n-word" cause he "trying to change the original meaning" which makes no sense at all. There are many times when conversations like this get started and become heated, and it always ended with me being the bad guy.
"There is significant literature available that painstakingly explains this work as a continuation of the minstrel show tradition, the racist performance of blackface which lampoons Black life for white audiences. The news shot through our offices. It was racist, hurtful, and anti-Black. With my then supervisor's permission, I posted a piece by the Guerrilla Girls to the Studio Museum's Tumblr page in protest of Scanlan's inclusion and the exclusion of so many POC artists that I knew deserved to be in exhibition."
- The fact that an artist was allow to show an minstrel show at an museum and it being called art is a slap to every Black artist that works tooth and nail for their art. The audacity for the curatorial committee to invite Joe Scanlan to show his "art" tells me enough on their view on black people.
- Seeing this photography of this dress reminded me of a prom dress that's exactly like it. The dress was heavily mock and cricized due to the hole being cut out for the baby bum. I especially remember seeing this dress under websites and sub reddit called "ghetto dresses" and different variations of it. Most of the time the forums where just people making fun of Black people and calling them "ghetto". Seeing this dress again brought back memories of it being constantly mocked and made fun of by strangers on the internet.
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