Am I wrong
4 Feb
…for wanting to pull a Bush and throw my eff’n Jordan at this girl’s head? Let me explain.
Last Friday in my Intro To Art class, we were discussing censorship. My teacher displayed pieces of art that have been taken to court over cases of censorship and the 1st amendment. The first piece he put up was an installation by an artist who goes by the name of Dread Scott (yes, he took the name from the slave involved in the historical Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857). It was called “What is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag?“
This is the installation pictured on the left. As you can see in the photomontage above, there are two ways that the American flag is being displayed. Korean students are burning the flag and holding signs saying “Yankee go home son of bitch” and coffins draped in the American flag in a troop transport.
In the installation, the photomontage is hanging on the wall with a shelf with a book below it for people who view the installation to write their thoughts. But as you can see the American flag is laying on the ground and in order to write on the book, you must walk on the flag to do so.
Some call it art. Some call it an atrocity. President Bush (the first one) called this piece disgraceful. What do you think?
So this girl in my class walks in late and starts adding her two cents into the discussion. Mind you this is the girl who always has something to say about everything and drags EVERY SINGLE TOPIC out longer than it needs to be. She starts calling it a disgrace and starts yelling about how he should be arrested… alright.. Calm down.
Moving on.
More work from Dread Scott we covered.
The Blue Wall of Violence is an installation that addresses police brutality. It focuses on the object which the police “mistook” for a dangerous weapon when they shot an unarmed person. The project consists of several elements: On the wall are six actual FBI silhouette targets which police use for shooting practice. Protruding from each of these is a cast of an arm. In each hand is an object-wallet, house keys, 3 Musketeers bar, squeegee, etc. In front of this is a coffin and in front of the coffin are three police batons which each strike it every 10 seconds with a loud penetrating bang.
Details of Scott installing Sign of the Times in Fort Green, Brooklyn on site where Floyd “Fly Ty” Quinones was killed by police, April 30, 2003.
Scott’s art reproduces Hattie McDaniel, the actress who played Mammy in Gone with the Wind, and emblazoned across her smiling face: “If white people didn’t invent air, what would we breathe?” Part of his BOOM Series.
Now she threw a eff’n FIT when she saw these pieces. She started ranting about how they promote violence against police and white people. She then went on to say that these pieces need ratings like they have for Grand Theft Auto…..
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What the fuck is your ass talking about?
These pieces have nothing to do with video games. This actually happens… Floyd Quinones wasn’t a perfect man. In fact, he was an ex-con, but does that mean he deserves to be shot IN THE BACK and killed? I don’t think so. Police brutality is real. Officers shooting and killing unarmed people is real. Need I remind you all of Sean Bell and Oscar Grant?
Am I saying I don’t like the police? No. I fully appreciate officers who actually do their jobs and are here to serve the people. All I’m saying is there are officers on the street who aren’t fit to have guns in their possession.
As far as the piece with Hattie McDaniel… Shit. I don’t know what yall interpretations are, but I know that Gone With The Wind perpetuated this myth that slaves were happy being slaves and race relations were not an issue. Yeah aight.. The portrayal of race relations in Gone With The Wind was one of the main controversies of that book & the movie. And that image of Hattie McDaniel represents all that is wrong with that myth.
But anyway.. back to the girl.. She just kept talking and talking. And I could tell that I wasn’t the only one getting pissed off. She sounded so narrow minded, so sheltered. Like wtf? It saddens me that there are still people in this generation so ignorant as to what happens in the world outside of their communities.
This isn’t some video game or some drama you see on prime time TV. This is real life.
Smh.
♥ April Rose
damn oh girl is trippin I see why u were on one
Seriously? She’s so lucky im not in that class.
You cant be mad at the truth you can only learn from it. Cops kill innocent men and black people were always discriminated against.
Its HISTORY. It HAPPENED.
i think however that the stepping on the American Flag was A bit extreme but art is supposed to make you think. I personally wouldnt have stepped on the flag to write anything but i wouldnt have been offended.
Taylor – See. My vent was not like drunk dialing lol.
Super Woman – Exactly. She was acting like this doesn’t really go on. You don’t have to like it, but you have acknowledge that things like this happen… way to often if I might add.
The flag on the ground? Yeah. I wouldn’t have stepped on it either just.. out of respect. If you go to Dread Scott’s website he has some the comments that were left in the book on his site. Crazy.
Your classmate’s ignorance is confusing…how can she confuse actually events with fictional pieces of entertainment?…And yes to me thats heart…i think it symbolized how soo many ppl of different races have been stomped on by the U.S that stepping on a flag is a lil redemption. And with the guy getting shot in the back of the head was sad…i saw the video and was in shock at how police are sooooo fucking retarded
“FUCK THE PO-LICE!”
yo is that the bitch that is always making comments about what she thinks she knows and what not.
That girl is stupid. There’s a good chance she won’t be passing that class since she doesn’t know wtf she’s talking about hahah.. dumbass.
I probably would have thrown something, or vocalized something, gosh… stupid, ugh!! lol
wow sis u shouldve threw a shoe at her, real talk lol