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Writer thinks picture of coal miners are racist - soot covered faces = black face

cbi1972

cbi1972

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Viewers cannot determine the intention of an artist’s work. Art also exposes society’s blind spots. Blackface is only a glimpse of a larger issue. The larger issue is the lack of representation of marginalized people and their voices in Phoenix.
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The larger issue is that there are people that get less satisfaction from learning something than from suppressing the display of historical images that resemble something vaguely threatening in a modern context.
 
cuda.1973

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Most of my dad's family came home from the mines looking like that. With bleeding hands, I might add.

Several died from "black lung". That is also racist.

(BTW, they HATED the union. They thought it was just like the mano nera.) (Even more racism!)
 
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Displaced Bama Fan said:
The irony is these coal miners were probably union democrats.
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Don't be daft, laddie. They are probably Yorkies, since they are drinking Bass ale.

(OK, I guess they could be Geordies, since most of the coal mining took place that far north. But since none of them are drinking "broon ale"...............I rest my case.)

(We will ignore the Welsh because................well, they are Welsh!)
 
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