Hannah Black Leftist Painter Calls For Emmett Till Painting To Be destroyed

[KLAMarine]

binary solo said:

KLAMarine said:

So if the beneficiaries of the sufferings of slavery and segregation inflicted on blacks were other blacks, that would make it okay?

The OK-ness of people profiting from historical misery inflicted on a whole population of people all depends on context. It's more likely to be morally OK if it's African Americans profiting because they are likely the decendants of those who actually suffered, so there is some poetic justice in the decendants of slaves profiting off the story of their forebears. But in general, it's kind of dodgy to be profiting off anyone's misery, be it contemporaneous or historic.

I don't think it's right for someone to profit from someone else's suffering without permission, regardless of skin color.