FRANCE IS $296 MILLION DOLLARS RACIST
June 23rd, 2006Jacques Chirac is so open minded when it comes to ethnicity that he’s spent $296 million dollars on the Musée du Quai Branly. On the banks of the River Seine, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, the museum is indiscriminately dedicated to non-Western arts, that is, the indigenous arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. The WSJ:
“What we need to do is to put the art in a universal art museum like the Louvre and not put together continents that are not at all related except for the fact that they were all colonized by Europe,’ said Giles Manceron, a historian who writes on French colonialism, in an interview.”
The museum opens today with “‘Ciwara — African Chimeras,” displaying anthropomorphic or animal headdresses from Mali’s Bamana culture; “We Have Eaten the Forest,” documenting the research of ethnologist George Condominas in Vietnam in 1948-49; and “What Is a Body?,” examining how views of the human body differ in West Africa, Western Europe, New Guinea and the Amazon basin.”