diasporadash:la-negra-barbuda:zuriya:jemilyjuice:deducecanoe:maarnayeri:Iraqi student Zeidoun Alkina
diasporadash:la-negra-barbuda:zuriya:jemilyjuice:deducecanoe:maarnayeri:Iraqi student Zeidoun Alkinani protesting the possession of ancient Iraqi artifacts by Germans at the Babylonian Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum of Berlin.Prior to World War I, German archaeologists excavated large numbers of ancient artifacts across what is today Iraq and shipped them to Germany as part of a larger phenomenon of cultural pillage by European archaeologists across the Middle East that continued for decades.In 2002, Iraqi officials asked for the return of the Gate, to no avail. A year later, the U.S. invaded the country.via The Ajam Media CollectiveNodding. I really do wish western museums would own up to how they got their shit and give it back, make some fair or temporary trade (give us this for x years and we will give you y western art/architecture on loan too), buy it, or do replicas.Western museums did not come across most of their collections honestly, even if it was acquired hundreds of years ago and I wish white people would own that shit. Work with world museums to rotate and share, work to give back stolen property and make reparations, instead of playing finders keepers.well.. i wouldnt have had a chance to see this if it was in Iraq instead of Berlin. we’re talkin about a nation continuously pillaged and brutalized beyond the realm of imagination by the west, only to have their salvageable history stolen & this is the response you give.amazing.i fully support the repatriation of cultural products from oppressive, white-supremacist institutions. and we don’t care if you wouldn’t get a chance to see if it were in berlin. this wasn’t made for your consumption. deal with it.See. This is the arrogance and pathology of whiteness, must ALWAYS center it back to self…no matter what: “well.. *EYE* wouldn’t have had a chance to see this if it was in Iraq instead of Berlin.” read: I want to see it so fuck the violence, theft and brutality it took for ME to see it. In Europe. Unbelievable. -- source link
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