This is all wholly true, of course:
“Olaudah had been passed on through a network of people,” says Marshall. “He got exchanged over four or five times. He didn’t see a white man until he got on the boat. That’s the slave trade too. It’s not just the boats. It’s not just the trip across the Atlantic. It’s everyday people who wanted some value from whatever was transpiring during the slave trade, people who participated as freelancers to get what they could. They didn’t care any more about abducting children than anybody else.”
So why does he think people choose to ignore these sorts of stories?
“Because they don’t fit the narrative of white people evil, black people good. It doesn’t fit.”
But The G says:
Which makes his new series, painted just in time for this show, all the more unsettling.
Why is simple – and what should be thoroughly well known – history unsettling?
Generous of you to add the tag ‘art’ to this one, I feel…
Now let’s go to the gallery
Why is simple – and what should be thoroughly well known – history unsettling?
Because cognitive dissonance hurts!
Surprisingly, he has artistic talent.
Great use of colour in this one, entitled “Heading for Dover”
I imagine they mean unsettling for Guardian readers.
Yes… You can sense the shock and confusion…
Black Man quotes uncomfortable historical fact contradicting the Narrative, yet they can’t Reeee! at him, because Black Artist and not Evil WhiPiPo..
Plus the artist obviously has an Opinion and doesn’t take bull from “Journalists”.
I’m surprised the “Spellchecking AI” plus Editors of the Groan missed that bit and didn’t edit it out..