I Assassination of Barack O'bama
A controversial art exhibit was raided and shut down before it could be viewed in NYC yesterday.
According to the NY Times blog: Cityroom, Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama”.
The artist thought his racist views were protected under the Constitution because he was expressing himself through his art. Wrong.
Not 30 minutes after Arboleda set up the gallery across the street from the New York Times building, police, feds and secret service swooped in to shut the art exhibit down. While police covered the offensive storefront window with brown paper, Arboleda was led away in handcuffs to be “interrogated”.
Arboleda, 27, learned the hard way that freedom has its limits. Later, in an interview, he said: “It’s art. It’s not supposed to be harmful. It’s about character assassination — about how Obama and Hillary have been portrayed by the media.” He added, “It’s about the media.”
I think people have the right to express themselves through art and speech but this is not acceptable. I normally post new music, etc. but there are issue more important than Lil' Wayne's new feature or album. And I original Title of this post was "Freedom or expression or racism?" This def. looks like some racist s*** to me. I don't see how this could be flipped to be about the media or anything but some racist bs. Now this is when I really need your comments. How do you feel about it cause I can get real Huey at times?
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EXZIBIT
According to the NY Times blog: Cityroom, Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama”.
The artist thought his racist views were protected under the Constitution because he was expressing himself through his art. Wrong.
Not 30 minutes after Arboleda set up the gallery across the street from the New York Times building, police, feds and secret service swooped in to shut the art exhibit down. While police covered the offensive storefront window with brown paper, Arboleda was led away in handcuffs to be “interrogated”.
Arboleda, 27, learned the hard way that freedom has its limits. Later, in an interview, he said: “It’s art. It’s not supposed to be harmful. It’s about character assassination — about how Obama and Hillary have been portrayed by the media.” He added, “It’s about the media.”
I think people have the right to express themselves through art and speech but this is not acceptable. I normally post new music, etc. but there are issue more important than Lil' Wayne's new feature or album. And I original Title of this post was "Freedom or expression or racism?" This def. looks like some racist s*** to me. I don't see how this could be flipped to be about the media or anything but some racist bs. Now this is when I really need your comments. How do you feel about it cause I can get real Huey at times?
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EXZIBIT
Labels: Arboleda, assassination, barack, clinton, hillary, o'bama, obama, police, Yazmany
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