Black People : What are your thoughts on the Michael Brown exhibit that opened in Chicago

I do not like it.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//p...aved-africans-their-survivors-african-descent

It is like slave reenactments in Williamsburg, VA.

 

Not only is the exhibit in poor taste, but it is associated with Fox news, and has a short life span. And this kills it:

... The artist is a white woman from New Orleans.

She says it represents white privilege in America and how it negatively affects the black community.

The exhibit runs through August 10th ...
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Chiraq has its own unique set of problems; the White woman could have better used her time to help this action:

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it's ok by me......

 

Interesting from a social/political standpoint. Artists have a unique perspective of the world that they need to express. Judging from pure art it doesn't really do anyting for me.

 

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Mike Brown’s father outraged by Chicago art exhibit featuring life-sized replica of teen’s dead body



Mike Brown, Sr. discusses art exhibit (Screenshot/KTVI)


... “I really, really, really would like for them to take that away,” Michael Brown, Sr. told local KTVI. “I think it’s really disturbing, disgusting… That picture is still in my head.”

He said he struggles every day to function by compartmentalizing the image of his son’s death and staying busy. But the art exhibit brings that day back ...

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/mik...uring-life-sized-recplica-of-teens-dead-body/

Mike Brown’s father outraged by Chicago art exhibit featuring life-sized replica of teen’s dead body

rawstory.com

 

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Art replica of slain black teen stirs US race debate



... Brown's mother gave tacit approval to the project by traveling hundreds of miles from her home in Ferguson, Missouri for the opening at Gallery Guichard on Friday.

The mannequin of her son was covered up before she arrived.

The gallery, which has reportedly received death threats and hate mail, said it had also reached out to his father before mounting the exhibit ...





http://news.yahoo.com/art-replica-slain-black-teen-stirs-us-race-151219823.html

Art replica of slain black teen stirs US race debate

Curators say a life-size replica of the prone body of Michael Brown is fighting US racism through art but the slain black teenager's father branded it "disgusting" and wants it removed immediately. The elder Michael Brown led a chorus of critics...

yahoo.com

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