René Magritte - The Comic Spirit - 1928
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Alfred Kubin - 1900
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America's fervid racist nightmare. This dates from the height of lynching (often justified by false claims of rape) & just five years before the publication of Thomas Dixon's The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan, on which Birth of a Nation was based.
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It made me really uncomfortable, usually one reason I post things. Do you think I should delete the post?
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No, I'm not suggesting that.
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I'm thinking that. It made me uncomfortable and now I now why. Didn't when I posted it.
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Last night I couldn't find the 1917 US Army recruiting poster that the print brought to my mind. But here it is today. Dehumanizes Germans by associating them with white America's obsession with the (mythical) black beast rapist.
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