{"id":234068,"date":"2021-05-17T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=234068"},"modified":"2021-05-18T07:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T07:02:28","slug":"big-black-baby-unveiled-at-rockefeller-center-to-honor-african-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=234068","title":{"rendered":"Big Black Baby Unveiled at Rockefeller Center to \u2018Honor African Culture\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Renegade Tribune \u2013 May 14, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Okay, so it is not actually supposed to be a giant baby, but it certainly looks like one. This 25 foot statue, which will tower over Rockefeller Center, is a piece of \u201cart\u201d created by Black \u201cartist\u201d Sanford Biggers to \u201chonor African culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: New 25 foot-tall statue unveiled in NYC, Rockefeller Center to honor &quot;African culture&quot; &#8211; Smithsonian Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FjNYHbJRfz\">pic.twitter.com\/FjNYHbJRfz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1392260512252051461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Is the big baby bearing the torch of civilization? Is he a modern Prometheus? Menahan writes that \u201cit looks like a giant baby holding a rattle.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NCbnMQgEHE\">pic.twitter.com\/NCbnMQgEHE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1392262057433632768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The funny thing about it is that it exaggerates the physiognomy of Africans to the point that it almost looks like an old Looney Tunes caricature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Looney-Tunes-characture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Looney-Tunes-characture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Looney-Tunes-characture.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Looney-Tunes-characture-480x352.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 675px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The statue is grotesque. It will likely induce feelings of nausea and disdain in anyone with a critical eye for art, but this is the case with most pieces produced for mass consumption these days. The worst of the worst is elevated while inspiring artists struggle to make ends meet. For example of the kind of trash that is considered brilliant in the art world, which is controlled by jews, check out this painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, which recently fetched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/basquiat-skull-painting-sells-for-us-93-1-million-at-christies-01620826650\">$93.1 million at a Christie\u2019s sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/im-337232.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/im-337232.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/im-337232.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/im-337232-480x320.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 630px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Consider all of the amazing artists that have been featured here at Renegade Tribune, and how most people have never even heard of them. This is all done on purpose, to deprive us of real art in favor of these monstrosities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.renegadetribune.com\/big-black-baby-unveiled-at-rockefeller-center-to-honor-african-culture\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this art or just an ugly caricature? For it seems that the worst of the worst get elevated now while inspiring artists struggle to make ends meet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":234073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234074,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234068\/revisions\/234074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}