Assassinated (LINK)
July 1st 2008 15:57
So last week I received the same email from two different sources. It was entitled WOW!! I guess it was circulated to protest the alleged prejudice people of color seemed to have experienced while reading it. It was an email about the installation by Yazmany Arboleda of Boston, in a vacant office space in New York City. The installation was entitled the Assassination of Barack Obama. What was interesting was earlier that morning a good friend of mine had asked me had I seen the email that was circulating like a list for section 8. I had to reply no but I found later that the email was actually in my inbox. Had she not asked me about the email and had I not seen the installation that also had an installment about the Assassination of Hillary Clinton I probably would have assumed that somehow Barack Obama was the only installation. There were quips, and rants from those of color who had received the email who were flabbergasted, and in shock. " Oh my how could in 2008 black people be experiencing such blatant expressions of racism and prejudice?" And to that my response was a hefty laugh, and a real loud " Get over it ". When are we going to realize that everything is not about racism, everyone isn't intentionally out to get us, and truthfully at this point what difference does it make, when our professional athletes (of color) can boast multi-million dollar contracts, and have sneakers and streets named after us, and we have people of color who can build and open their own schools, and create multi-million and billion dollar establishments who cares what blatant expressions of racism are exhibited. It took me a minute to realize whoever had started the circulation of the email was really race baiting. Nowhere in the email did you see the installation of Hillary Clintons' assassination, and nowhere could you find the artists explanation of work which most artists accompany with their exhibits. It became evident to me that someone was bored, and needed to go volunteer their time (and the time it took for them to send the email) at an inner city school where we as people have more pressing issues. Once again woe is the black man and black people all around the world. Come to find out I did get to see the exhibit in full, but only because like the good computer geek that I am I Googled it. The exhibit was interesting and he had some good thought provoking images and a few things that made me laugh. As an artist I could appreciate what he was trying to accomplish. Listen people Barack Obama is not Stokely Carmichael, or Huey P. Newton, (oh by the way for those who have been studying history under a rock Newton, and Carmichael were politial activists during the Black Power movement, Google them ), he will not be cut down in his prime and assassinated in the sense that most black people I talk to seem to think. He will be castrated, and lynched, but in the most modern way possible, commercially, and politically. He is no rebel, no Black Power hope, and he is no Black Panther he is just a black man in black face who is an idealist, and has more faith in the process of sitting at the table of brotherhood than most, and an inspirational speaker. Listen I give him credit because he has already made history, and done great things just by inspiring a generation of youth people had forgotten had existed, but as we know in life all good things must come to an end.
Well I hope black people know that if Barack is indeed elected into office there will be no more circulating race baiting emails, white people will swear that racism is gone, kind of like the insistance that Elvis is still somewhere in a grocery store shopping, oh and that this is the only country God ever blesses.
Well I hope black people know that if Barack is indeed elected into office there will be no more circulating race baiting emails, white people will swear that racism is gone, kind of like the insistance that Elvis is still somewhere in a grocery store shopping, oh and that this is the only country God ever blesses.
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