The 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square in central London was originally intended to hold an equestrian statue of William IV, but remained empty due to lack of funds. In 1998, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts decided it was better to showcase sculptures temporarily on the plinth rather than settle permanently on one figure or idea, but they settled on one idea: progressive anti-whiteism.
00:05:19.120When hearing Colston come down, I made my way there really quickly and saw Colston on the floor, spray-painted red, with a box of jamming juice on his chest and an Afro pic on his forehead.
00:05:36.000And it was just a very surreal, but a very joyous moment.
00:07:01.880And this one, I think this is New York also, like it's some oversized, it's like some Easter Island-esque, but obviously Afro features and whatnot.
00:07:12.100It's like they don't even put statues in like this in Africa because they can't seem to make them.
00:08:07.000The reason why the lands our ancestors lived in are sacred is because their actual ashes in many regards or their remains are scattered all throughout the landscape, right?
00:08:20.920But anyway, Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Institution overhauls displays with visitors informed that landscape images can stir dark emotions.
00:08:32.720It says here, the museum owned by the University of Cambridge has undertaken an overhaul of its displays in a move its director insists was not woke.
00:08:42.920Luke Susson said last week, quote, I would love to think that there's a way of telling these larger, more inclusive histories that doesn't feel as if it requires a pushback from those who try to suggest that any interest at all in this work is what would now be called woke.
00:09:01.640The new signage states that pictures of rolling English hills can stir feelings of pride towards a homeland.
00:09:12.460When it's precious Israel or Pakistan or Africa, then it's all good.
00:09:17.400It states that this national sentiment comes with, quote, the implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong.
00:09:41.640Paintings at the Fitzwilliam have been reordered into themed categories in a shakeup the museum's director hopes will make the gallery's displays, quote,
00:10:00.820And here's the good black brown artists making their art.
00:10:05.120Categories include men looking at women, identity, migration and movement, and nature, which includes English landscapes by a couple of classics, you know, Constable, Gainsborough, and Palmer, and French scenes by Pissarro, Renoir, Monet, and Cezanne.
00:10:20.120Cezanne, a sign for the nature gallery, states, quote, landscape paintings were also always entangled with the national identity.
00:10:58.160They don't want us to have anything that is our own or anything that is beautiful or anything that reminds us of our ancestors and our beautiful culture and history and past.
00:11:09.220A sign for the new identity gallery informs visitors that portraits of uniformed and wealthy sitters become vital tools in reinforcing the social order of a white ruling class, leaving very little room for representations of people of color, the working classes, and or other marginalized people.
00:11:30.520Yeah, because they should have painted trannies in wheelchairs right away.
00:13:02.700But they'll only attack white countries for these things.
00:13:05.140Yeah, and it goes on mentioning racist colonial legacies dominated by white people, white British cultural values, white spaces, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:13:17.160In this case, it seems that the guy, Luke Susson, who's the curator of this wing here in Cambridge, the Fitzwilliams, he just looks like a white guy, right?
00:13:27.760Lefty, educated, obviously, in all the right ways.
00:13:30.600And he also knows he has to say these things.
00:13:32.300If you want to remain in this position, which is highly lucrative and, well, high status for me, you have to shit on other people that have status or had status in the past for some reason in order to sustain your status in the new pecking order of pox and, you know, victim classes, essentially.
00:13:53.540I mean, hopefully they won't be taken down, but I figure at some point they will just start, they will just take all of this shit out of there.
00:13:58.680Yeah, like that racist teacup right there.
00:14:00.360You know, the privilege of having tea parties in English society.
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