African Canadians
An older couple at an art exhibition in Toronto were staring at a painting that had them completely confused. The painting depicted three well hung black men totally naked sitting on a park bench. Two of the figures had black penises, but the one in the middle had a pink penis. They asked the curator (a Liberal) of the gallery for an interpretation. He explained how it represented the sexual emasculation of African-Canadians in a predominately white, patriarchal society. In fact, he pointed out, some serious critics believe that the pink penis also reflects the cultural and sociological oppression experienced by gay men in contemporary society.
After the curator left, a man with a noticeable maritime accent and a large Tim Horton's coffee approached the couple and said, " Would youse like to know what the painting is really all about ?" The couple looked at the man with some degree of suspicion.... "How and why" asked the couple, "could you claim to be more of an expert than the curator of this gallery?"
"Because I'm the guy who painted it", he replied. "In fact, there's no African-Canadians shown here at all. They're just three Cape Breton coal-miners.........the guy in the middle went home for lunch."
An older couple at an art exhibition in Toronto were staring at a painting that had them completely confused. The painting depicted three well hung black men totally naked sitting on a park bench. Two of the figures had black penises, but the one in the middle had a pink penis. They asked the curator (a Liberal) of the gallery for an interpretation. He explained how it represented the sexual emasculation of African-Canadians in a predominately white, patriarchal society. In fact, he pointed out, some serious critics believe that the pink penis also reflects the cultural and sociological oppression experienced by gay men in contemporary society.
After the curator left, a man with a noticeable maritime accent and a large Tim Horton's coffee approached the couple and said, " Would youse like to know what the painting is really all about ?" The couple looked at the man with some degree of suspicion.... "How and why" asked the couple, "could you claim to be more of an expert than the curator of this gallery?"
"Because I'm the guy who painted it", he replied. "In fact, there's no African-Canadians shown here at all. They're just three Cape Breton coal-miners.........the guy in the middle went home for lunch."
