extremely funny to me that harley quinns real name is apparently harleen quinzel, a name that sounds less real that harley quinn. they should do that with more comic characters. batman real name batthew manning. daredevil real name darius devilson. doctor strange real name. well okay that one doesnt count.
I have some very good news for you about Black Bolt’s real name
TL;DR: A pot made by Dave The Potter, who was an enslaved artisan who was unique for signing his name and putting words and poems on the pots he made, has been returned to his descendants, even though the pot was bought and sold to begin with.
It officially belongs to the family, but will remain stewarded by the MFA for the next two years. This is a really interesting way forward for conflicted items in museums, being that the family owns it but it will remain with the museum. At least for two years.
The pot is obviously a tremendous piece of history, illustrating the class of highly skilled artisan slaves who existed but often get forgotten in the field slave/ house slave narrative that gets pushed. For real there’s sooooo much to learn from this pot, I’m glad that it gets some kind of public visibility while the family gets control of it.
also, they returned another pot which the family immediately sold back to the museum, so they will get to keep one- with the important caveats that:
the descendants got the right to DECIDE what happened to it, and
the descendants got paid fair market value for the piece, with their express agreement to the sale
I think it’s critical that non-museum people understand that this, too, is what repatriation can look like. sometimes the museum keeps the piece, temporarily or permanently! it’s not necessarily always a case of “the proper owners take it back and keep it!”
what matters is that they are given the CHOICE. they have the final say in what happens to these objects, regardless of whether they stay in the museum or leave it
Here’s an exhibition held by The Met on Dave’s works as well as others from Edgefield. That link also has a video tour of the exhibition and some other content related to the pottery.
The exhibition also includes a lot of these “face jugs” that were done by enslaved potters, in their own time, for their own use, and potentially connected to West African cultural/spiritual traditions. Apparently, the clay present to this area in South Carolina (kaolin clay) was also present in West Central African and was used for spiritual purposes there.
Dave the Potter also has a Wikipedia page, which is where I learned that he was also disabled as he had a leg amputated at some point for unknown reasons. This is just really, really incredible history and I hope a lot more people learn about this.
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Not that Renee Nicole Good doesn’t deserve justice, because every person murdered by the state deserves that, and more; but that’s exactly my point. It’s not lost on me that most of the general public only started to care about the public executions and kidnappings of citizens when a white woman was revealed to be the victim.
I also personally don’t care for her death being compared to George Floyd’s. Especially since Black children like me were mocked and harassed in school for even remotely caring about his murder, while for the most part people take Renee’s death seriously.
Think about how many immigrants are dying and/or are dead in ICE detention centers, and we don’t know about it. And if we do, it’s only because a family member or an insider has spoken up about it. The only times in which we hear about the extent of the state and ICE’s brutality is when an American citizen is killed.
The people who came here illegally, the mother without a green card, the father who waits in front of gas stations or Home Depot in order to find work because no where else will hire him, they don’t deserve to be killed either. They also deserve to go home to their families and have dinner at the end of the day.
The US government’s military operation in the Caribbean is supposedly intended to target “narco-terrorists.” In my latest article, I explore the history of the term to argue that “narco-terrorism” is mostly a myth— a “political slogan” which does not accurately describe the world. By focusing our attention on foreign suppliers, this myth distracts us from more important factors, including the US government’s own history of supporting drug trafficking.
To say that “narco-terrorism” is a myth is not to deny the obvious violence associated with the black market drug trade, but to acknowledge that the term does more to confuse than to clarify. The idea does not accurately explain the complex dynamics of the global drug trade; instead, it radically oversimplifies the problem. By portraying military intervention as a response to drug trafficking, the “narco-terrorism” myth allows politicians to ignore all of the ways in which military intervention is a cause of drug trafficking…
Perhaps the greatest flaw of “narco-terrorism” is that it encourages us to believe that complex human problems have simple military solutions. Sociologist C. Wright Mills once astutely criticized US elites for accepting a “military definition of reality,” a distorted perspective which prevents them from imagining policy solutions that do not involve military intervention. So long as the government insists upon seeing non-military problems through a military lens, they will never be solved.
It is important to remember that the US government’s case against Maduro is almost entirely fictional
The US Ambassador to the United Nations repeated the claim that Maduro is the leader of the “Cartel de los Soles” in his ravings to the Security Council this morning. It continues to not exist.
The term “Cartel of the Suns” originated as a colloquial term used by Venezuelans to mock the military officials who maintained close ties with drug traffickers within the country’s corrupt power system (Venezuelan generals wear symbols of the sun on their uniform). It has no territory, no leadership, no structure or coherence at all; it is a reference to a systematic national problem. The concept of a “crooked cop” does not suggest that there’s a Crooked Cop Incorporated office building we can go after, but that’s what they’re doing by designating “Cartel de los Soles” as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
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