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26. The oral sex depiction may be uncomfortable, but it's about as explicit as this one...

Mon Jan 21, 2013, 12:21 PM

Jan 2013

Here is the painting in question...

Kara Walker's drawing depicts the horrors of reconstruction, 20th-century Jim Crowism and the hooded figures of the Ku Klux Klan, but the part that has some Library workers upset is the depiction of oral sex on the right.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_barry_carter/2013/01/library_painting_controversy_i.html#incart_river

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NJ library displays drawing of slave having sex (with white man) [View all] michigandem58 Jan 2013 OP

The article's headline should say RAPE obamanut2012 Jan 2013 #1

It's not prominent at all. CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2013 #3

My first thought as well. knitter4democracy Jan 2013 #14

American history has been so whitewashed lunatica Jan 2013 #2

The actual drawing is contained in the real source for this story PSPS Jan 2013 #4

Ohhhh.... SoapBox Jan 2013 #7

I find the saying "clutching pearls" to be sexists. fasttense Jan 2013 #25

The art is amazing cosmicone Jan 2013 #10

Won't somebody please think of the children?! Drunken Irishman Jan 2013 #6

Was it an original? donated by the artist? ReRe Jan 2013 #9

Having seen the painting, a kid too little to know what's going on XemaSab Jan 2013 #11

I would have bit that thing clean off Skittles Jan 2013 #12

Easy to say. MrSlayer Jan 2013 #15

a guy pawed me once Skittles Jan 2013 #18

You didn't watch the bit I'm guessing. MrSlayer Jan 2013 #20

cannot watch Skittles Jan 2013 #21

Ah, it's a funny clip from Eddie Murphy's "Delirious" stand up. MrSlayer Jan 2013 #22

I did not mean to imply what slaves would / should have done Skittles Jan 2013 #24

It doesn't usually work out that way... Ian David Jan 2013 #27

shame they can't show the nicer side of slavery booley Jan 2013 #13

Lying enslaves, the truth sets us free. bemildred Jan 2013 #16

That's not a very good likeness of Strom Thurmond Tom Ripley Jan 2013 #17

Looking at the picture uriel1972 Jan 2013 #19

Often rape.Mutual attraction every now and again. alphafemale Jan 2013 #23

In our state museum . . . Brigid Jan 2013 #30