blackrebelz:simplyahopelessdaydreamer:I remember a teacher telling me how Archaeologists would hack
blackrebelz:simplyahopelessdaydreamer:I remember a teacher telling me how Archaeologists would hack off the noses of statues they found in order to remove any indication that it was of a black person or any POC. It hurts me to think of all the art we’ve lost and damaged because of historical revisionism and flat out racism.erasure of ethnic identity in art is, in fact, a form of genocide. -- source link