From the Atlanta Tribune:
Photo: Getty Images A 12-foot bronze statue of a Black woman erected in Times Square sparked a flurry of racist reactions online. The statue, found in the middle of New York’s Times Square, was created by artist Thomas J. Price as part of a series called “Grounded in the Stars,” which organizers said confronts preconceived […]
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Never heard of the statue, but why a statue of a generic black woman? Why not Rosa Parks or Katherine Johnson or Harriett Tubman or whoever?
You don’t really see many statues of generic people.
Or they do a faceless figure to represent many people at the same time. What throws me is the modern clothing on statues. She’s wearing a T-shirt, it just feels too casual for a statue.
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It’s apparently asking what we value in a society, so a generic black woman in casual clothes?
Call me Sherlock, but I haven’t figured out this mystery.