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A top Swedish politician is at the centre of a race row storm after she was pictured cutting up a cake depicting a naked black woman.
Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth was pictured enacting female genital mutilation on the racial stereotype cake, prompting calls for her resignation.
The self-confessed 'anti-racist' attended a party at Moderna Museet, the museum of modern art in Stockholm on World Art Day on April 15.
Liljeroth was pictured laughing and joking as she cut the macabre cake was designed by Makode Aj Linde.
The sweet treat featured a black woman's naked torso with the artist's own head, painted black, at the top.
Once cut open, the cake sponge was red, depicting blood.
It is believed the art installation was intended to highlight the issue of female circumcision, as the minister first cut a slice of cake from the 'clitoris'.
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Spokesman Kitimbwa Sabuni told The Local: "In our view, this simply adds to the mockery of racism in Sweden.
"According to the Moderna Museet, the 'cake party' was meant to problematize female circumcision but how that is accomplished through a cake representing a racist caricature of a black woman complete with 'black face' is unclear."
Sabuni added that the fact that the minister particiapted in the event, which he argued was also marked by "cannibalistic" overtones, betrays her "incompetence and lack of judgement".
In a statement, he added: "Her participation, as she laughs, drinks, and eats cake, merely adds to the insult against people who suffer from racist taunts and against women affected by circumcision.
"We have no confidence in her any longer."
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The wealthy continue to humiliate Sara Baartman in effigy, even in death. In the photo: they continue to define and devalue her. They consume her. Food. I don't see this as "art". It is dehumanizing. It is racist. It portrays Africans/blacks as something less than human.
The youtube link I've posted here is very thought provoking. Is this how the wealthy elite see Africans?
How about the poor? The elderly? The mentally disabled?
I saw a picture of a "meat baby" posted on Facebook the other night. It looked to be some sort of meatloaf which had been shaped to look like a human infant. The "eyes" of the meat baby were white.
In reading through the comments posted beneath that picture, I couldn't get over how many people LOVED the picture and were excited to serve one at their own dinner tables.
I've been wondering something for a while now.
I wonder if perhaps the percentage of psychopaths existing in this world may have been UNDERestimated.
I wonder, too, if this is the case, and with so many seemingly mired in the quicksand, how many normal humans are even still out there anymore.....
I think about this all the time. I wonder....