Sweden's minister of culture, Adelsohn Liljeroth, who claims to be an antiracist, was caught on video in an egregious demonstration of racist stupidity. An enormous cake decorated to look like a stereotypical black African woman was the centerpiece of an art installation at a Swedish museum on World Art Day. Liljeroth began to slice the cake, starting at the clitoris, all the while joking about "cannibalism" and obviously having a good time. Video below the fold....
How anyone could think that recycling the Venus Hottentot is somehow liberating to African women is beyond me. Its mouth moves! And it's bad enough when the women cut pieces of the cake, but when the guys do it, it makes me want to retch. What the hell is wrong with people?
I've been in Europe long enough to realize how clueless most (self-proclaimed) "well-meaning" Europeans are about race and racial stereotyping, but this, as they say, takes the cake. If even the "antiracists" in Nordic countries are engaging in this kind of behavior, then the insanity at the far right end of the spectrum is not quite as remarkable (though far more dangerous and evil), as it may initially appear to those who think of Scandinavia as generally enlightened. Actually, this behavior reminds me of a segment of the Abolitionist moment in the ante-bellum era: that group of folks believed slavery was wrong on moral grounds, but believed just as deeply in the "natural" inferiority of blacks to whites.
There's an article about the event on The Root, and more photos at Fria Tider (which may be a right wing paper, gloating about left wing stupidity), and an article from OnIslam (which seems to be a socially progressive Islamic site). Wish I could read Swedish....
Sheesh. Just sheesh.