My Take
By
QUINCY TROUPE
It is October 2014, and
the absurd notion we are
living in “a post-Black”
era in America has finally
been put to rest — at least
for me — by two events
that occurred over the
past several months.
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Michael Brown
Now, I am not a Black nationalist per
se. I like all kinds of artistic expression.
I like figuration as well as abstraction.
I like diversity and variety and a little
controversy to keep the juices flowing.
What I don’t like is the lack of
continuity among African American
artistic and literary and culture
thinking inherent in the notion of a
“post-Black” national idea that spawns
something like Kara Walker’s mammy
sugar sculpture in Brooklyn.
Most notably what happened in
Ferguson, Missouri in early August of
this year and the V