Sentences with phrase «black suffering into»

Published after artist Parker Bright physically protested the work by standing in front of it — wearing a t - shirt with «Black Death Spectacle» written on its back — Black's letter argued that «the painting should not be acceptable to anyone who cares or pretends to care about Black people because it is not acceptable for a white person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun, though the practice has been normalized for a long time.»

«It is not acceptable for a white person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun,» wrote artist Black in an open letter signed by roughly 50 others calling for the work to be destroyed.

Soon after, another artist, Hannah Black, wrote an «open letter» on Facebook calling for Schutz's painting to be taken down and destroyed, explaining: «It is not acceptable for a white person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun.»

Black decried what she saw as the transmutation of «black suffering into profit and fun», and concluded that «the painting must go».

«It is not acceptable,» she states, «for a white person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun...» When Whoopi Goldberg relayed this point to millions on the puffy morning show The View, her co-host Joy Behar scoffed, «Why is it fun and profit, though?

She wrote in part: «the painting should not be acceptable to anyone who cares or pretends to care about Black people because it is not acceptable for a white person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun, though the practice has been normalized for a long time.»

Not exact matches

Retailers created their own pain and suffering by bringing a lot of deals into the week before Black Friday.

While many white dwarfs fade away into relative obscurity, eventually radiating away all of their energy and becoming a black dwarf, those that have companions may suffer a different fate.

Sentenced to three years in jail upon getting into a scuffle with a couple of fuzz trying to stop him from busking in the park, Otis, for starters, would be a far more resonant character if he were portrayed by a black actor (it doesn't count that the icky Matthews suffers from delusions of soul), since there's nothing to justify his martyr complex.

Following the journey of exiled Divko Buntic (Miki Manojlovic, Irina Palm) upon his return to his home town after a 22 year absence, the comedic yet dramatic offering explores the impact his arrival has on his abandoned family, with long - suffering wife Lucija (Mira Furlan, TV's Lost) and adult son Martin (Boris Ler, Some Other Stories) thrown into disarray by the presence of his new, younger girlfriend Azra (Jelena Stupljanin, The Ambulance) and adored black cat Bonny.

Its digs at racial stereotypes and dedication to honouring the images and conceits of black cinema from the Seventies are dead on - target for the most part, while its attempts to marry it all into some sort of spy plot are subject to the same extended dull spots suffered by any dinosaur Bond flick.

Unfortunately, despite decent acting jobs by the principal cast, the director's decision to inject so much distracting personal drama into the production means the film suffers from an absence of the cinematic momentum necessary to generate the sort of palpable tension which made Black Book a hit.

Students are usually keen on peeping into the «black box» of testing, and learners suffering from test anxiety may feel more at ease when they better understand test design.

«Given the importance of the Till murder to the history of civil rights, and the absence of visual representations of the boy's suffering in the white press,» writes Berger, «analysis of the coverage of his death provides insights into the complex symbolic work that black children performed in the white imagination.»

It seems to allude to the rays of gold that might surround a baroque saint — here made black and charged - although it is not clear whether they are a sign of transcendence or of suffering, where the multiple arrows of a St. Sebastian are turned into a fetish.

But Nature's reputation suffered a huge black eye on November 21, 2009 when a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) and released 1079 emails and 72 documents exposing willful fraud in several scientific papers published in Nature that supported Al Gore's theory Anthropogenic Global Warming.

Is Annie Leonard's newest foray into battle the tipping point for change?Like previous projects Leonard has undertaken, The Story of Cosmetics is simplistic; it suffers from portraying in black - and - white, literally and figuratively, a situation nuanced in grey.

This leverages the localised brightness boosting made possible by the TV's direct LED lighting and local dimming to enable the TV to insert black frames into the picture (a technique long considered to give the most natural motion reproduction) without the picture suffering the dramatic brightness loss black frame insertion usually causes.