Harriet Tubman Sex Tape Response
Jamilah Lemieux' - She believes that people are not sensitive to history and that the video was highly disrespectful. She thinks that historical black figures should not be portrayed in such a way.
Russel Simmons - He agreed to take down the video and apologize after the NAACP asked him to even though he still believed that his video was politically correct.
Jeff Johnson - He says that it is our fault that the generations don't respect history like they should.We should know more history and be teaching others.Not knowing historical context is a big part of this problem.
Sarah Bartman
Sarah was taken by Europeans and brought to Europe because of her body. They were obsessed and determined to prove that blacks were inferior and oversexed. She had an unusually large buttocks and genitals. They referred to her as a freak and her nickname according to them was "Hottentot Venus". After Sarah Bartman died they made a plaster cast of her body and preserved some of her body parts and put them on display.
Racist Cake
There was much controversy because the Swedish culture minister, Lena Adelsohn Lijeroth cut a cake of a naked African woman after being invited by the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm. Many people were angered and wanted her to resign because of this. According to the article the cake was meant to illustrate degrading stereotypes of blacks throughout the years.
Comments - "Oh man I LOOOOOOVEEE the cake!" & "Why? Probably not racist but very ill-judged and offensive to people of all colours, nationalities, etc...."
2 Chainz & Minister of Culture of Sweden
The similarity between the video and the incident is stereotypes in my opinion. I believe that they are both bad but the 2 Chainz video does not get as much negative comments as the Ministers situation because 2 Chainz is black and she is white.
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