Updated!!!! #boycottthehumanzoo - A message to Africans and the African diaspora.

It's time for the Lion to tell his own history and forget the tall tales of Hunter.
Africans the world over have for too long have been having our history handed down by people who really don't have the ability to comprehend the African experience. 



"‘Exhibit B’ recreates, in graphic detail, the lesser known atrocities of colonialism and slavery. Bailey, a white South African, uses black performers to present his fetishized interpretation of the African Holocaust. Images of the exhibition have sent shock waves through the Black community and beyond.

Who are #boycottthehumanzoo?

We are 18,000 and growing we are ordinary individuals and organizations who believe ‘Exhibit B’ crosses a moral boundary and enough is enough!

The petition was created by Sara Myers who felt compelled to speak out against such a monumental step backwards for the UK. Sara says it is vital that Africans hold the keys to their own history. “The African narrative is always being told from a colonialist and imperialistic viewpoint, that they are the victors and we are victims, when there is so much more to African
history. It’s time to tell our own story. “

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Barbican shut down Bailey’s offensive ‘Human Zoo’

Case Study: Always In Season

 Can a virtual world help us heal the legacy of racial violence in America?

For almost a century until the mid-1960s, tens of thousands of ordinary people attended the lynchings of more than 4,000 African Americans in the United States. As a native Southerner and African American woman who grew up in a community her family helped to integrate, director Jacqueline Olive brings a unique insight into the complexities of race that evolved out of the collective silence of her hometown in Mississippi.

Extra-judicial executions of African Americans is nothing new. So when people react so strongly to the all too frequent killing of unarmed African American people, one really shouldn't be surprised. There are still living people who can remember lynching by mobs and even more who remember the wanton murder of Black US citizens that occurred without anyone being brought to justice. Today it seems to many of us that not all that much has changed. Watch this short video if you want to have a better understanding the reactions of many African Americans regarding the killing of their brothers and sisters today.



This movie is part of the collection: Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
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