melanatedconsciousness:The life of the Khoikhoi woman, Saartjie Sarah Baartman ended too soon due to
melanatedconsciousness:The life of the Khoikhoi woman, Saartjie Sarah Baartman ended too soon due to white colonist who disrespectfully put her on sexual display and prostituted her. If that wasn’t bad enough, after her death, her skeleton and genitals were left on display in Paris until 1974! Demands for her remains to be returned to the Gamtoos Valley were ignored until 2002.And here you see in 2012(yes…2012), the minister of culture of Sweden slicing up a baked depiction of Saartjie Baartman with a white person in blackface as the head. How far have we really come. This disrespect or lack of empathy for black people does not stop in america.Is this how they honor a woman who’s life was taken from her? By making light of it? By eating a cake made to look like her body? I’m sick!I remember this. Ridiculous. -- source link
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