Saw this at an art gallery in Rochester, NY. Oh come on!! Very few people of any race could afford painted portraits in the early 19th century.

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[–][deleted] 23 insightful - 2 fun23 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The white servants didn't get portraits either. Ain't about race, about being a peon.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Go to the rich black people of the time and find that indeed they had portraits done of themselves. Who would of thunk it? Oh they owned slaves as well. But that's because secretly they were white on the inside.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The white servants didn't get portraits either.

Uncle Tom had his portrait painted. He looks respectable, and all.

Uncle Tom was also guilty of cultural appropriation.

[–]Bonn1770 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh is this where I'm supposed to apologize for being white? Dear conquered peoples, the history of humanity is one of constant conflict and competition for resources like land, food, water and women. You whine about the fact that Europeans were and are better at this contest than any other race of men in the world. You losers want us to regret being better at conquest and exploration than you were. You want apologies and reparations from people who were stronger and smarter than you, people who unequivocally won.

We aren't sorry and we owe you nothing.

[–]SuperConductiveRabbi 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

If blacks wanted their history recorded they should've invented the written word and languages capable of expressing concepts like "past," "future," "promise," "sacrifice," and a numerical system that wasn't just "none, one, two, many."

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 9 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Oh, but they did invent all of that. And then Yakub came along, uplifted us perfidious, melanin power-stealing honkies, and that's why blacks can't have nice things.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Then the evil Morlocks conquered the peace loving Eloy until the good doctor showed up with the three books.

[–]socks-the-nigger 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Mm

[–]LtGreenCo 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I feel bad for the non-woke black people. It's gotta suck having self-righteous white liberals constantly reminding you that your distant family were second class subhumans.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't know, if it were me, I'd be a lot more upset at the black grifters pushing that narrative along for the sake of getting paid off of it in the form of eternal reparations.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

While their family couldn't even grow potatoes without fucking up.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Was there even that much slavery in New York?

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Depends on the time period. They didn't have the same level of plantation slavery but rich people certainly had slaves and servants as part of their households. Course the North outlawed slavery fairly early in American history though servants weren't much better off than slaves save for the right to leave without getting hunted down.

What I find hilarious about this sign though is it seems to imply that the problem with slavery was that the mean old slave owner got his picture taken while the poor slaves didn't. Like I'm sure if they found a portrait where the head of the household actually included his slaves in the portrait they would criticize him for showing off his wealth. But no, slavery is wrong because the slaves don't get their portrait taken.

If the rolls were reversed, if this guy had all his slaves pictures done instead of his own, would that of made it right? Clearly not.

[–]alladd 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

no then the narrative would be "the evil slaveowner used to get off, sexually, probably, on having portraits done of his slaves"

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Surely with the tax dollars we pay them they can get creative. " Once the Kodiak was invented the evil white people started photo studios where they stole the souls of unwitting black people with an evil colonial invention called a camera and then used those souls to power their cars in the afterlife."

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If the rolls were reversed

You into roll playing?

[–]send_nasty_stuff 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Jews do this so you won't notice they own everything and sit in key positions in cultural, education, business and government structures.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

But are Jews black? Clearly they are because they were slaves in Egypt and slaves are black.

[–]IkeConn 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Send Rochester a few hundred bus loads of Mexicans.

[–]yhl-cis[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I will do that.

[–]clownworlddropout 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's CLASS that divides us you damn monkeys, not RACE!

[–]Brewdabier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R48KMbOOR-A

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You didn't deface it? Shame on you.

[–]Newzok 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What museum is this? Unless part of the exhibition theme, this type of plaque is uncalled for and in very poor taste. The Tate pulled a milder version of this and made me lose all respect for it.