I didn’t say it was only Black men’s lives that matters. They all do. Like you said Black lives matter. They all should be front and center, not in the background with people of other races.
You see what I’m saying right?
This RollingStone BLM front cover has divided opinions. Thoughts?
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You see what I’m saying right?
I'm not disagreeing with you. I would prefer it with all black people with a family up front.
When I said it's not black men's lives matter I was talking about how I don't have a problem who is up front as long as there are black men, women, and children in the picture. Them them other colors out and it would be perfect
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
Scuse me, just wanted to interject that in the original painting, that wasn't just a random woman with her kid. That was the goddess Libertas, or, france- specific, 'Marianne.'
Liberty (personification) - Wikipedia
Marianne - Wikipedia
(The US has a few different interpretations of the Libertas figure, but the statue of Liberty is the most well known. I also heard of a native American one they used to use out west, but i think she's seen as offensive nowadays. Also, the bw Calafia, from whose name we get California.
Calafia - Wikipedia)
None of these are intended to depict actual living women.
Apparently, even he's unaware that that was a symbolic woman, not a real one.
In fact, now that i think about it, as a bw, I'm actually annoyed that he used our image in this way. Im not a mule or a savior. I help black men, i don't lead them, and i don't like the implication that i should.
Liberty (personification) - Wikipedia
Marianne - Wikipedia
(The US has a few different interpretations of the Libertas figure, but the statue of Liberty is the most well known. I also heard of a native American one they used to use out west, but i think she's seen as offensive nowadays. Also, the bw Calafia, from whose name we get California.
Calafia - Wikipedia)
None of these are intended to depict actual living women.
Apparently, even he's unaware that that was a symbolic woman, not a real one.
In fact, now that i think about it, as a bw, I'm actually annoyed that he used our image in this way. Im not a mule or a savior. I help black men, i don't lead them, and i don't like the implication that i should.
my g no disrespect, but i'm not reading this.Would you say LeBron James is not a man?
Would you say Tyrese Gibson is not a man?
Would you say Jay-Z is not a man?
Would you say Diddy is not a man?
Would you say Kevin Hart is not a man?
Would you say 50 Cent is not a man?
Would you say Samuel L. Jackson is not a man?
The men who are still around step up..."it takes a village". And it doesn't necessarily have to be marriage and stepfathering to do that, but this is where thethe pro-black Coli gives towards single mothers overplays itself. We try to tell brehs to not touch them with a ten foot pole or use them as sex toys, so how are we going to knock how these boys in 20 years turn out when it's advised to hide from them while bending their mothers over?
Furthermore, many of us lament on here about how in comparison to sisters they at least are pushed in education and corporate hiring quotas while we as the tangible threats are left roadside or hunted to be killed or locked away. So while I understand y'all want to see a nuclear black family, that concept and reality has been shattered for about half a century now and with the supposed consciousness here, I thought it would be understood why a picture inspired by a black man's nation-shaking death does not feature another one front and center:
George Floyd might be the straw who broke the camel's back, but he's not unique. We're hunted into two boxes, iron or pine.
you should have used this for a dissertation my nikka.
This wasn't that long. You just don't have anything to say.
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
Shouldn't there be a black man leading the charge tho...
I didn’t look at the tweet until now, and so many people agree with what I was saying.
There were even Black women saying the same thing that posters have gotten so angry at me for.
I said there needs to be a Black man there in the picture with them, and people really mad that I said that.
I agree with you that a Black man should be leading, but didn’t even make a comment because posters were already mad that I said that there should be a Black family there.
Now I’m saying a Black man should be leading his woman and child.
Even twitter agrees with me.
I fw kadirs artShouldn't there be a black man leading the charge tho...
But this I'm not fw and comes off as pandering
I get that but damn can one BM be in the art. And I'm not talking about that one nikka way in the backIt’s a remix of the Delacroix painting
Like he could have put someone more in front
Yep I won't shyt on kadir he nice wit itsame artist
But this one in op i ain't fukkin with
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
When it comes to art, i try to avoid "shoulds". Who can say how a given artist should do anything? All im saying is, the piece he chose for inspiration was never intended to portray a particular woman, so what is he trying to say about the movement and their expectations of living, breathing bw?
The original was never intended to convey any expectation of 19th c french women leading the fukking revolution, so why did he make that choice?
It's clear to me from that tweet that he either doesn't know that was Libertas, not a real person, or he know but ain't telling.
If i was on Twitter, I'd ask.This chick on twitter said she doesn’t want dark skin women to be front and center of the America uprising. It puts targets on their backs. She said black men should be used so they can have targets on their backs.
Another chick said it should be Bre Taylor on the shirt instead of of George Floyd because he’s a common criminal.
This is what irks my nerves, and what (some) black women do over and over again.
Pure selfishness!!
SMFH
C00n birds and wenches will always be shyt.
Another chick said it should be Bre Taylor on the shirt instead of of George Floyd because he’s a common criminal.
This is what irks my nerves, and what (some) black women do over and over again.
Pure selfishness!!
SMFH
C00n birds and wenches will always be shyt.
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