The Human Zoo and the Masturbation of White Guilt | Akala

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  • The Human Zoo and the Masturbation of White Guilt
    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/akala/barbican-centre_b_5809508.html

    So as you have probably heard. An ’artist’ named Brett Bailey thinks it is creative and innovative to showcase black humans in a mock zoo for the entertainment of white ’liberals’ at the Barbican Centre. Some people, including the poet Lemn Sissay, have mustered all kinds of defenses for the forthcoming exhibition: free speech, artistic expression, promotion of dialogue about serious subjects, blah blah blah. Some of these reasonings may even appear sound at first glance, until we examine them in the context of the actual world we live in, not the fairy world of a certain kind of white liberal - and their black and brown servants - the same world inhabited by humanitarian imperialisms and post racial posturing. Source: Huffington Post (...)