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Posted: 5/11/2021 8:44:21 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/11/2021 8:44:39 PM EDT

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Nevah been done befoh.

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Posted: 5/11/2021 8:45:02 PM EDT

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Thank you! I really needed to laugh!

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:46:02 PM EDT

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Fo real?

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:46:29 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/11/2021 8:46:29 PM EDT

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Is that Jobu?

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:46:46 PM EDT

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So many of these shitty article leave out all of the details.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/huge-new-oracle-greets-rockefeller-center-visitors-new-york-2021-05-06/

A massive new bronze sculpture welcomes visitors to Rockefeller Center in the New York landmark’s first campus-wide show by a single artist.

The 25-foot (7.6 m)tall black "Oracle" with a huge head joins murals, flags and videos at the venue, all created by Sanford Biggers, whose artwork also includes music and performance.

The seated figure is part of the Harlem-based artist's Chimera series of sculptures that combine African masks and European figures to explore mythologies of those cultures.

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A simple google image search of African masks will explain why it looks the way it does.

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:47:10 PM EDT

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I identify as a Kalahari Bushman and that looks like it glorifies the Bantu colonisation....

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:47:46 PM EDT

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I'm sorry but am getting so sick of the BS.
Stripping America of its history and its statues while bending over backwards to cater to 13% of the population

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:48:13 PM EDT

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So many of these shitty article leave out all of the details.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/huge-new-oracle-greets-rockefeller-center-visitors-new-york-2021-05-06/

A simple google image search of African masks will explain why it looks the way it does.

https://www.reuters.com/resizer/aXYXS_omdAKTt-B1JoD2Wdz8trE=/960x0/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/WVXYFY5T7BKNXAZGK3SCJG7EUQ.jpg

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So many of these shitty article leave out all of the details.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/huge-new-oracle-greets-rockefeller-center-visitors-new-york-2021-05-06/

A massive new bronze sculpture welcomes visitors to Rockefeller Center in the New York landmark’s first campus-wide show by a single artist.

The 25-foot (7.6 m)tall black "Oracle" with a huge head joins murals, flags and videos at the venue, all created by Sanford Biggers, whose artwork also includes music and performance.

The seated figure is part of the Harlem-based artist's Chimera series of sculptures that combine African masks and European figures to explore mythologies of those cultures.

A simple google image search of African masks will explain why it looks the way it does.

https://www.reuters.com/resizer/aXYXS_omdAKTt-B1JoD2Wdz8trE=/960x0/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/WVXYFY5T7BKNXAZGK3SCJG7EUQ.jpg

Well, it certainly isn't the Oracle of Delphi

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:48:49 PM EDT

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Total artistic ripoff of the Greek treatment of draped cloth.

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Total artistic ripoff of the Greek treatment of draped cloth.

Because the twitter link doesn't actually explain the art work.

It's called the "Oracle" which explains the look of the draped cloth.

The seated figure is part of the Harlem-based artist's Chimera series of sculptures that combine African masks and European figures to explore mythologies of those cultures.

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:49:39 PM EDT

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You know it is going to be removed in 10 - 15 years for being too racist.

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:50:15 PM EDT

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Stymie's missing his derby.

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Posted: 5/11/2021 8:50:26 PM EDT

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Is that a knife in it's hand?

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:51:48 PM EDT

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Is that a knife in it's hand?

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The cops are going to blast the shit out of that thing!

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:51:54 PM EDT

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If a white guy had designed that they would have gone nuts.

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QFT!

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:51:59 PM EDT

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Hahaha holy shit thats the most racist shit I've seen lol

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This. Lmao

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Posted: 5/11/2021 8:53:05 PM EDT

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What does African culture have to do with the culture of Americans of African descent?

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They wuz kangs.

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:54:16 PM EDT

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If I made that, they’d fucking crucify me.

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:55:02 PM EDT

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The cops are going to blast the shit out of that thing!

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Is that a knife in it's hand?

The cops are going to blast the shit out of that thing!

But knife fighting is part of their culture!

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:56:24 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/11/2021 8:56:59 PM EDT

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Poor guy he's got the worst case of Butthole Eyes I've ever seen.

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:57:47 PM EDT

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100% we’re living in a simulation.

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I lost ??

Posted: 5/11/2021 8:57:49 PM EDT

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Who modeled for that, Don Cheadle?

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Don Cheadle having a major allergic reaction.

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:02:51 PM EDT

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It's Don Chile

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:04:09 PM EDT

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It’s a creation by Sanford Biggers

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:05:55 PM EDT

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How the fuck??

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:07:03 PM EDT

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Needs larger lips and Red/White Air Jordans

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:12:26 PM EDT

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If that was next to a Robert E Lee statue, the woke would be tearing it down and rioting.
It be racist!

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:16:16 PM EDT

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He should have stuck to the junk business with his son.

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:17:52 PM EDT

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I don't give a shit about african culture.

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:19:37 PM EDT

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Stymie's missing his derby.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:22:49 PM EDT

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Looks good, we cultured now. Carry on.

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:23:45 PM EDT

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Meanwhile at the same address.....

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:25:08 PM EDT

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Fitting

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:25:22 PM EDT

[#36]

Holy Wakanda, mang, that thing is fugly.

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:26:08 PM EDT

[#37]

This is really great, since we are an African nation an all!!

Come on man!

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:26:21 PM EDT

[#38]

What doesn't it have bars around it?

So nobody spray paints or steals it.

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:26:34 PM EDT

[#39]

You can’t make this shit up...

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:27:26 PM EDT

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Hahaha holy shit thats the most racist shit I've seen lol

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WTF?

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:27:47 PM EDT

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Nevah been done befoh.

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So that explains why Rapa Nui was deserted...

Posted: 5/11/2021 9:27:54 PM EDT

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Now that I look at it more, I realize that he looks like someone in an outhouse. One hand is holding a light, not quite sure what the other hand is doing. But he sure looks like he is concentrating hard.