A controversial statue went up in Times Square and the images of it are all over the web. It depicts an overweight angry black woman. There’s been a lot of to-do about it, much of which I’ll avoid here, but the main point is controversy. Achieved. On the next level is: why is it controversial? It’s a shot fired by team woke, it’s a deliberate provocation. On the opposite side are conservatives and traditionalist that believe statues, at least figurative statues should honor something and someone honorable; that’s not too much to ask. The provocation is a blunt message that there’s nothing honorable here to see and you’re going to like it or else, hate it and be just as angry as the figure you’re forced to look at it. Forced ‘equity’ of sorts.
Public figurative statuary usually honors accomplishment, events, or distinguishing virtues. The statue figure is known to history, usually by name. If there is no name, there are abundant signs and clues as to why they’re being honored. A military hero rides a horse, the tools and signals of other notoriety shows their trade, their mind, their influence. The depicted clothing is key as well. Myths, allegories, and types are often fully or partially nude, yet holding clues, surrounded by beasts, rooted in thousands of years of handed down common narrative that provides context.
Our angry black woman just came from Walmart where she cursed out the pharmacy cashier and left her supersized soda cup next to the lettuce bin. She’s dressed for that occasion at least. The figure represents that she/they have accomplished nothing notable, the demographic pushing her is equally meritless, she/they are personally unfit and undisciplined, medically at risk, and most of all, the anger expressed in the facial lines is the dominant attribute being celebrated.
Did I mention that she is also ugly? The whole thing is in-your-face. In as much as it accurately reflects the disposition of her cohort of people, maybe it is somehow appropriate as public art. It represents the war that is going on right now. I personally don’t like it for all the reasons stated here and likely would avoid it, but then again, I avoid Times Square anyway. My brand of conservatism doesn’t embrace the hyper-parody of commercial futurism that inspires Time Square. I’ll take a quirky antique side street, thank you.
The bigger picture is what will happen in the war. We are in an active war now. I almost said – without guns – but of course there are guns. When a homicide happens and the Soros funded DA lets the killer off the hook due to skin color, that is war, killing without civil justice. Killing aside, more and more of the war is being carried out by activists just as depicted in the statue. Angry black woman, maybe a congress woman or a judge or a community organizer; they have a microphone, maybe they’re illegally harvesting ballots, scoring grants from woke administrations, and have a declared ambition to push Caucasians into subservience, paying reparations, or standing down after her team of girls beats the shit out of a young white girl at the convenience store. And did I mention, she/they also want to be worshiped?
I’m well aware that my description here does not apply to all blacks or black women. I’ve known quite a few and they are/were more than civil, wonderful people; thus, there’s also a war among their own demographic about how they will conduct and distinguish themselves or not. I don’t know how they will regard the statue. My gut feeling is that it will not age so well. Anger takes a lot of energy to maintain and leaves little else for other things.
When anger is your main attribute, there is no long-term capital accumulating that would advance your cause. They’re not exactly building bridges or alliances. Many of their peers placate them to their face but otherwise fear or loathe them when they’re not looking. They own no industries or institutions. The ones in government tend to run from governing in favor of activism, racist yelling ‘racism’ hiding under every rock. Some have money that used to be sure and secure, government money, patronage jobs literally by the millions, grants for seemingly unlimited studies, outright extortion. Much of this is now in doubt. The irony is this house of cards are held up mostly by guilt ridden liberal white women without which most of them wouldn’t have the electoral platform for any of this. Is this the age of the ascendant angry black women? They think they’re at the front end, but I suspect it might not have ever taken off, the flight aborted.
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