If you can simultaneously hold these truths in your mind:
that America has always been one of those people who doesn't listen so much as it waits for its turn to talk, that America is one of those parents who only breeds for the chance to demand respect, that America has always torn brown babies from the arms of their mothers, that the past 250 years have taken place entirely at gunpoint, and that America could -- if it tried -- someday become what it already tells itself it is, then you are possessed of a wisdom I envy even as I write this, and it is your job to convince the rest of us.
*then you have already mastered the simple practice of benefiting from the work of terrible men without condoning their terrible actions. It is possible to hold that a creation is good and the creator is partly or entirely bad at the same time. These concepts do not contradict one another.
So why do we denounce the art of artists who do bad things? |
Meesh Montoya
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