Does This Poster Make Me Look Racist?

The Cut

New York Magazine

Personal Journals, Documentary, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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When producer B.A. Parker was looking to decorate her apartment, she wanted to buy a poster of one of her favorite films from 1943. And upon revisiting the poster she realized... it was just a little more racist than she felt comfortable with. So what do we do with the problematic art of the past? B.A. Parker goes in search of answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.0	The cut.
0:40.0	The cut.
0:41.0	The cut.
0:44.0	The cut.
0:47.0	Hey, the grave of Winter Bernstein.
0:50.0	Really?
0:51.0	He's here.
0:52.0	Yeah.
0:53.0	Two weeks ago, the cut producers, Avery, Jasmine and myself went on a field trip to Greenwood, Symmetarian, Brooklyn.
1:00.0	We ate rice pudding amongst the tombstones of Winter Bernstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
1:05.0	You know, cool golf girl shit.
1:07.0	But the main reason for our trip was to see a statue that's been on loan there for the past nine years called Civic Virtue.
1:14.0	Whoa!
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1:20.0	That is aggressive.
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