Liberals tell us that wherever there is a racial disparity, there is racism. If an employer doesn't have enough blacks to match the population, the employer is racist. If a school doesn't have enough black students, the school is racist. If minorities don't score as well on a test, the test is racist. Using that standard, I was surprised to find that the world of African Art is inherently racist. It turns out that most curators of African Art are white. That means that museums, which hire curators, are racist. A recent decision by the Brooklyn Museum to hire a white person as an African art consulting curator has prompted opposition on social media and from an anti-gentrification activist group that argues the selection perpetuated “ongoing legacies of oppression.” In response to a letter from the group that stated its concerns, Anne Pasternak, the director of the Brooklyn Museum, said in a statement on Friday that the museum...(Read Full Post)