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2021-05-14 -Great Cultural Revolution

New Rockefeller Center sculpture to honor African culture draws outrage: 'This needs to be removed'

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Posted by Fred 2021-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Not the Bee™? It must be my White Privilege that finds it so eerie.

Posted by magpie 2021-05-14 00:25|| 2021-05-14 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 And here's the model for the sculpture: International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
פאטו בנסודה

Stacey Abrams ugly syster

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-14 00:59|| 2021-05-14 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 [hits nose on keyboard chuckling uncontrollably]

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-14 02:07|| 2021-05-14 02:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Will people eventually begin making pilgrimages to this thing like the Kaaba in Mecca ?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-14 07:44|| 2021-05-14 07:44|| Front Page Top

#5 What I predict you'll see is a line of pathetic self-haters waiting to wash its feet. Nobody will be able to reach high enough to clean the pigeon dressing off its head without a ladder.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-05-14 07:52|| 2021-05-14 07:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Much smaller keychains of the image could be made available in shops at the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson terminal.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-14 08:12|| 2021-05-14 08:12|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll give it this...I'm speechless.

Like, a really shitty bookend, or something?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-14 10:43|| 2021-05-14 10:43|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Yes Alex, I'll go with Abrams buda book ends for $500. please.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-14 11:05|| 2021-05-14 11:05|| Front Page Top

#9 The "Do they know its Christmas?" Bookends Collection.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-14 13:07|| 2021-05-14 13:07|| Front Page Top

#10
Wonders of wonders,
wonder what Clerow 'Flip' Wilson,
or Geraldine would have said about
this Object d'Art.
Kinda looks like them though.

Posted by Sloscotch Tingle9045 2021-05-14 14:52|| 2021-05-14 14:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Phallic Architecture

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-14 15:04|| 2021-05-14 15:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Down by the statue's feet, are those creatures rats or lions? Perhaps the fly-whisk is actually a rat-whisk. A golden rat-whisk, a symbol of when we waz kangs!

Posted by SteveS 2021-05-14 21:43|| 2021-05-14 21:43|| Front Page Top

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