So, if you’re at Peter and Paul and marry, you’re just blowin’ in the wind.

They used to back in the 90s and early aughts. Don’t know what they do now. Even divorcees had to keep their dating silent last I heard.

It is strange that those two have been marginalized in such different ways, considering they really weren’t that far apart. 

The knee jerk reaction to Malcom X as a big bad black man is indicative of how successful their smear campaigns are against our leaders. And the same can be said about the taming of Dr. King as well — in both extremes we see the standing examples of how we’re grouped and categorized. Are you a Malcolm or a Martin?…

And even if they did, so fucking what? Someone suggesting you should behave an abominably cruel manner doesn’t give you an excuse to do it.

Right?! Airlines are awful, but I seriously can’t fathom anyone in their right mind suggesting this woman kill her pet.

No. Some Graysons are Dicks.

Surfin USA was flat-out Sweet Little Sixteen with different lyrics. Berry didn’t just mention it, he brought legal action (and got the rights and a songwriting credit). But the Beach Boys are pretty far down the list of white bands drawing heavily from the work of black artists, and their most critically acclaimed…

I think Rick Parfit of Status Quo once said, “If you’d told me I’d be able to make a 40 year career out of three chords, I’d have called you crazy. But here we are.”

Ah! This whole thread led me down an internet worm hole. I mean, if Q heard them early on enough, it’s not an unfair assessment. In Paul’s own words:

To be fair, the question was what his FIRST impression was, not what his belief is now, right?

In rock and roll especially, you don’t have to be great at playing your instrument to create great music.

Celebrating an artist’s work is not the same as preserving and displaying historical artifacts.

One shows us what was, so that we can learn from the past...

The other, embraces someone’s talent, perhaps the subject matter, and the person themselves.

Isn’t quad arms and legs? I think Close is a para.

You cannot cannot censor history no matter what it entails. Art history is also history. Removing offense doesn’t do anyone any good. If one did that art museums would be empty, and bookshops, and all avenues of culture. Yes, women have been excluded from His-story in all its forms, but it this the way to handle that…

This chick would lose her mind if she had to sit alone in a studio, in front of a canvas/laptop/workbench for few months and just make art. She would dissolve into nothingness in the absence of a throng of media and those who deign to take offense at her stunts.

I mean, I agree with her, but I’m not gagging on the execution tbh.

Girl, museums wouldn’t exist without paintings. If we took out every painting made by someone problematic, there would be no museums. This lady needs to move on from her ambiguous sexual encounter that she had.

Yes. Too many resources out there to not teach appropriately.

Outstanding follow up to the question of how to teach slavery. Slave narratives are plentiful and easily accessible. If a teacher wants to impress me, ask the white students in the class how it feels to benefit from oppression.