DAVID MARCUS: New York's new statue takes wokeness to unprecedented heights
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For years now, we have been lectured about the pernicious stereotype of the angry Black woman and its negative effects on society, so imagine my shock when I learned that a 12-foot bronze statue of an angry Black woman had been erected in Times Square.
My first thought was, "did white supremacists do this?"
The answer is no, but this sculpture is a physical representation of the knots that wokeness has tied the left into, an example of how when one makes race or gender or sexuality their whole identity then, without even knowing it, a social gravity turns them into the very stereotypes they reject.
The statue is called "Grounded in the Stars" by the artist Thomas J Price, and it depicts a heavyset Black woman with braids whose facial expression seems to say, "You are working my very last nerve."
The first question on many minds was, naturally, why is there a giant statue of an annoyed generic Black woman in Times Square? Are there no notable Black women who actually exist to celebrate? How about a giant Condoleezza Rice, or a somewhat more diminutive Simone Biles?
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks in the A Time for Choosing speaker series at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on March 8, 2023 in Simi Valley, California. Rice served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush, the second woman and first African-American woman to hold that post. Previously under the same........
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