A New Jersey drawing is raising eyebrows in its vivid depiction of slavery.
Artist Kara Walker’s illustration of sex acts between black slaves and white owners is on display for the second time at the Newark Public Library. While some consider the drawing a historical retrospective others are finding it offensive.
The artwork, which was originally displayed during Thanksgiving, depicts some of the horrors experienced by female slaves at the hands of their owners before and during the Reconstruction era such as a slaves engaging in oral sex. (Click here to see a photo of the artwork.)
Since the drawing has been redisplayed, library workers have complained that the illustration is inappropriate. They’ve met to decide on a plan of action and have covered the drawing with a cloth in the meantime.
“They said there are a lot of things in artwork we don’t want to talk about, and that made absolute sense,” said Kendell Willis, a library employee.
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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.