@ Persi Flage
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“Racism isn't history."
Well, the context of art is important. What is the art trying to convey?
So the history of art in America is not at all separate from the history of racism.
And not just black/white race issues. Look at the propaganda posters from WWII, compare the War in Europe to the War In The Pacific. One HAS to discuss the racism in both of those campaigns for an Art History class. Or English class. History.
And your goals in ‘not talking about racism’ are not the same as Freeman’s. So STFU.
This…:
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…made history as the first example of Viral Advertising: from it’s introduction by Josiah Wedgwood to jewellery.
So how could have William Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish Slavery in Britain succeed if Racism wasn’t at the forefront of such…?!
How about you provide some evidence?
Were these supposed white slaves held by one government and society that is still on existence? Are the people who profited from them still wealthy generations later?
*Yes, I know about Barbary Coast slavers who captured Europeans and Americans. But those were usually ransomed - and all those pirate kingdoms were destroyed more than a century ago.
Okay, let's skip any part where you validate that claim or try to excuse that post slavery descendants of white slaves have the full acceptance of their society and rights that are protected while black people whether or not they come from an enslaved family need to be grateful for being freed and shut up when their rights are infringed upon because they wouldn't and implicitly shouldn't have rights if not freed by the people infringing their rights and continue to be treated as invaders in their own homes...
... Just pretend we'll take that inexplicably as a true and equivalent statement and please explain why that means nobody should talk about racism at all past or present?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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