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Longer piece -- had to edit for length.
1 posted on 08/29/2012 10:39:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

What a truly odd article.

A very partially clad black female painted (by a woman) in 1800 France is somehow a symbol of racism in America.

She makes little or no attempt to explain why this painting means what it does, but apparently it has something to do with partial nudity and the model not being given a name or other identification.

As if white nudes were never painted, or white models were always given full and complete credit.

And what is this weird bit about “the eyes.” Does she seriously think all men track her convinced she is some sort of hypersexual person because of her skin color?

Yes, attractive women are followed by men, but it is almost always admiring, not threatening.


2 posted on 08/29/2012 11:06:09 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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The stares follow you from plaza to café to discotheque -- curious, unblinking and, most of all, hungry....

"Mrs. Andrews? Dr. Rosenfeld will see you now."

3 posted on 08/29/2012 11:14:31 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Racist Art?"

Lately, everything is racist.

5 posted on 08/29/2012 11:25:47 AM PDT by OldEagle
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There was a nude of Sarah done too.


7 posted on 08/29/2012 11:43:02 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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Well.... The Obamas did say we should be more like Europe.
Is this what they had in mind?


9 posted on 08/29/2012 12:04:21 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
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11 posted on 08/29/2012 1:48:23 PM PDT by The people have spoken
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The author of the article seems very self-absorbed, but this cover is offensive.


12 posted on 08/29/2012 2:00:23 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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