Library officials plan to invite Walker to speak on the painting, the importance of artistic freedom and on the influence of black artists in today’s society.
“The library should be a safe harbor for controversies of all types, and those controversies can be dealt with in the context of what is known about art, about literature, democracy and freedom,” said library trustee Clement A. Price. “There’s no better venue in Newark where such a powerful and potential controversial drawing should be mounted.”
Price notes that discussing the black experience in America can be a delicate issue.
“Should we be depicted sentimentally, romantically?,” he said. “Should some of the grotesque realities be depicted in art or movies?”
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That was so well said Robin.
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@Alberta, Please! Just like the Indians, they gave you the bible and took everything else! Wake up! Oh by the way they wrote the bible so the poor wont wake up one day and kill them, them being rich and white!
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Sex acts between black slaves and white owners are rape.
It’s not good to talk about those things over & over…all it does is re-open healed wounds and it creates hostility & hatred..maybe that’s the reason why some of us have high blood pressure today because we won’t let go .For if you forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father also will forgive you, but if you do not forgive men their trespasses neither will your Father forgive your trespasses…Matthew 6 vs 14-15
Alberta I take your point. However this a matter of American history. I would also question your assertion that this re-opening “healed wounds.” I don’t know that the wounds have been healed because I don’t know that America has ever humbled itself to genuinely acknowledge the wound. Part of the healing comes in acknowledging the transgression.
Ms. Walker’s drawing does not engender feelings of hostility and hatred in me — quite the contrary. It elicits feelings of compassion and empathy for the hell enslaved black women must have endured during that period of American history.