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CHICAGO -- It's art imitating life that some say goes too far.
A graphic exhibit of the shooting death of Ferguson teen Michael Brown by a white police officer is on display in Chicago. Even Brown's father won't view it.
CBS Chicago's Mike Parker reports the art gallery on East 47th Street is the now at the center of a controversy. The owners have received hate mail and threats about one of their exhibits
It graphically recalls a shooting death that exploded across the nation last year.
The exhibit is a white artist's re-creation of Michael Brown's lifeless body lying face down, uncovered, as part of a Chicago exhibit on white privilege.
It is stark and shocking and it has had a profound effect on his father.
"I really, really would like them to take that away," Brown said. "I think it's really disturbing, disgusting. I keep the thought, that thought, that picture is still in my head."
The owners of the Gallery Guichard say they have no intention of covering up or removing the exhibit without first discussing it with the artist.
"The installation doesn't say it's for or against any side," said owner Andre Guichard. "It really just says now that he has left us, he's an angel."
Indeed part of the exhibit is a video of singer Eartha Kitt, singing "Angelitos Negros."
"I have no problem with the person that created that but I think they should have reached out to both sides of the family," Brown said.
Michael Brown's mother was at the exhibit's opening last week, but asked that the depiction of her dead son's body be covered while she was there.
Ti-Rock Moore, the white artist who designed the exhibit, told the Guardian newspaper: "We're living in a society of very complicated systems that create advantages for white people, and disadvantages for others. That's what my work is about."
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Jul 15, 2015 10:18 AM EDT
CBS Chicago
CHICAGO -- It's art imitating life that some say goes too far.
A graphic exhibit of the shooting death of Ferguson teen Michael Brown by a white police officer is on display in Chicago. Even Brown's father won't view it.
CBS Chicago's Mike Parker reports the art gallery on East 47th Street is the now at the center of a controversy. The owners have received hate mail and threats about one of their exhibits.
It graphically recalls a shooting death that exploded across the nation last year.
The exhibit is a white artist's re-creation of Michael Brown's lifeless body lying face down, uncovered, as part of a Chicago exhibit on white privilege.
It is stark and shocking and it has had a profound effect on his father.
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"I really, really would like them to take that away," Brown said. "I think it's really disturbing, disgusting. I keep the thought, that thought, that picture is still in my head."
The owners of the Gallery Guichard say they have no intention of covering up or removing the exhibit without first discussing it with the artist.
"The installation doesn't say it's for or against any side," said owner Andre Guichard. "It really just says now that he has left us, he's an angel."
Indeed part of the exhibit is a video of singer Eartha Kitt, singing "Angelitos Negros."
"I have no problem with the person that created that but I think they should have reached out to both sides of the family," Brown said.
Michael Brown's mother was at the exhibit's opening last week, but asked that the depiction of her dead son's body be covered while she was there.
Ti-Rock Moore, the white artist who designed the exhibit, told the Guardian newspaper: "We're living in a society of very complicated systems that create advantages for white people, and disadvantages for others. That's what my work is about."
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BILLSMITH57 6 minutes ago
Stories like this and the NAACP wanting to sandblast Stone Mountain will fuel the Indys to vote for a conservative for POTUS. Blacks staying home, indys vote repub is a recipe for a new and young SCOTUS.
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HILLARY2016APUFAN 6 minutes ago
I've never received a single privilege for being white.
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BILLSMITH57 just now
@Hillary2016apufan Coming up in the '70's I saw blacks getting PREFERENTIAL treatment in hiring for the COVETED jobs in my area. Thats one reasom the mexicans in this area hate them.
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WHITELAPIN 8 minutes ago
WTH? Is it considered white privilege for Officer Wilson to defend himself against this creature? Is it white privilege for any us to try to defend ourselves against these thugs? This "art" is a load of crap and makes me sick.
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PBRAD009 10 minutes ago
The only thing I don't like is takes up too much floor space.
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LUADDA22 13 minutes ago
"White Privilege"??? Really???
There were almost twice as many "whites" killed by cops as there were "blacks".
So I guess because "whites" are receiving much more of something, it's because of "Privilege"?
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PBRAD009 12 minutes ago
@luadda22 There always has to be an excuse.
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K8SYSWOWREALLY?!? 11 minutes ago
@luadda22
Yup, it is our PRIVILEGE to get gunned down, whether it be by officers, black people, hispanic, ect.
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LUADDA22 8 minutes ago
@K8SysWoWReally?!? @luadda22
No wonder it's projected that "whites" will be a minority 2044. It looks like it will be by attrition.
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K8SYSWOWREALLY?!? 7 minutes ago
@luadda22
more like extinction
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LUADDA22 6 minutes ago
@K8SysWoWReally?!? @luadda22
Yep, over harvesting for their possessions.
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PINCOLORADO 36 minutes ago
An exhibit on white privilege? There are plenty of poor and lower-middle class white folk out there last I heard.
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K8SYSWOWREALLY?!? 12 minutes ago
@PinColorado
Heck, the area I live in has triple the amount of poor white people, vs poor black or other minorities, and we have a pretty significant minority population, I'd say it's 60/40. I know I'm not really feelin the privilege, especially with such a large amount being taken out each MEAGER paycheck to support all the leaches.
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PBRAD009 11 minutes ago
@PinColorado They don't count in a liberal's mind.
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PPAULVILLE 45 minutes ago
Guess we'll chalk up the omission of the box of stolen cigars, and the blood of both the store clerk that Brown assaulted and that of Officer Wilson, who was attacked in his car, as "artistic license." His rap sheet might also be stapled to the wall, but maybe a struggling artist couldn't afford enough thumb tacks.
Is there also a continual loop playing of the stepfather's mantra of "burn this mother__ down?"
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ASKAGAIN 47 minutes ago
In other words, this might be OK if this was created by a black artist. We no longer live in a rational world.
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PISSAMIST 56 minutes ago
If you don't like what you're seeing on TV, turn it off. You don't like what you're hearing on the radio, turn it off. You don't like what's in an art museum, don't go in.
And this - "It really just says now that he has left us, he's an angel." Oh hell no! Criminal in life, angel in death? How the F does it work like that?
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FIT4UFOR3RD 54 minutes ago
@Pissamist catholicism
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PISSAMIST 52 minutes ago
@fit4ufor3rd Only if he received last rites. I don't think a priest was at his side before his last suck of air. And Brown was not Catholic
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VERONAFOAMER 47 minutes ago
@fit4ufor3rd @Pissamist ????
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NOBODYNOZ 57 minutes ago
Maybe next the artist can show the "privilege" of the man who was beaten and robbed in the store over cigars! Man, if only we could all be so privileged
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CNTRYGRL3 58 minutes ago
Where is the blood? If he was gonna do this it could have been a little more accurate. Sorry totally disgusting.
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FIT4UFOR3RD 1 hour ago
WTF is wrong with people?
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SICKOFYOURSTUPIDITY 1 hour ago
White privilege, huh? Yeah, it's a real privilege to bust my *** at work everyday to pay for everyone else to sit around on their lazy, entitled ***** while being vilified by the same douchbags who happily take my tax dollars.
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CNTRYGRL3 53 minutes ago
@SickOfYourStupidity Yeah white privilege, you have been the beneficiary all your life. Your implication that all black people are lazy and on welfare is just disgusting. The only entitled *** I see in this picture is yours. I am sure you want to keep black people out of your work force then gripe at them for not having a job. Unfortunately I had to deal with your ilk my entire career and you make me sick.
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ASKAGAIN 44 minutes ago
@Cntrygrl3 @SickOfYourStupidity - What better way to get back at white people than to take their money. Sure, there are some people in true need. But there are many people who sponge off of other people. Those are the ones many of us resent. That is not racist.
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NOBODYNOZ 42 minutes ago
@Cntrygrl3 @SickOfYourStupidity and your implication that all white people are privileged?
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SICKOFYOURSTUPIDITY 41 minutes ago
@Cntrygrl3
You're as bigoted as you are stupid. No one ever handed me anything. Not once. Here's a novel concept for you...I never asked for anything, either. Not once. Everything I have and everything I am came from one thing and one thing only. Hard work. Can you say the same? But don't worry, sweetheart, me and my "ilk" will still get up and go to work so you and your "ilk" can sit around, do nothing, and complain about us. Talk about disgusting.
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BILLSMITH57 11 minutes ago
@SickOfYourStupidity It's all a vote thing, and the dem party controls the MSM, so I guess it is what it is. The MSM won't ever stop the BS of hate as long as they are using it to PROp up the dem party.
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NEMAIN2015 1 hour ago
#blackcrimematters
Unless you want to absolve blacks from criminal proceedings when they run wild like in Baltimore. It must suck always looking for excuses for your actions and justifying your violent streets, gang violence, and violent music and culture.
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BOSJOHN333 1 hour ago
Wow, you have to be kidding me. These people are so detached from reality.
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GRIMANDO 1 hour ago
" Hands Up,Don't Shoot ! " should have been added to the exhibit to make it more authentic.
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NOBODYNOZ 1 hour ago
@Grimando How about...Don't take it if it's not yours! Maybe that can be a rally cry
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MARGROKS 1 hour ago
Tacky and appalling. That is not art.
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MITZY GOIL 1 hour ago
Oh, good. The worshiping of a thug continues.
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LW1W4W 1 hour ago
A thug who caused is own death is now an angel, that is such a sick and twisted statement that I do not even know how to address it... The story makes me sick and the whole "White privilege" is total ********. Its called we work hard and we rise up and do what is needed in life to be responsible. We don't sit around playing the victim card.
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FLETCH F FLETCH 1 hour ago
It was a privilege to stay in school and graduate. It was a privilege to work hard and earn the promotion and income. It was a privilege when my wife said yes. Guess the artist was right.
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JUSTHAVETOSAY 1 hour ago
apparently it wasnt that upsetting since his mother was there for the opening
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UNCTARHEEL24 1 hour ago
If it was a black artist I wonder if there would be such an outrage against it. There is no such thing as white privilege. You get what you earn in this life. Life is all about the choices you make. Michael Brown was a thug who beat up an old man, robbed a store and attacked a police officer. Why would you want an art display about a criminal.
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K8SYSWOWREALLY?!? 1 hour ago
@UNCTarheel24
Unfortunately there will always be those who worship criminals and feel that negative consequences are not a result of negative choices, but are completely outside of their realm of control. This is just an example of such, and I definitely agree with you, had the artist been black, it would be hailed as genius and moving, and no one would have a bad word to say about it.
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BILLSMITH57 1 hour ago
@K8SysWoWReally?!? @UNCTarheel24 It's a vote thing. Without blacks white liberals are nothing.
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BNINJA28 20 minutes ago
@billsmith57 @K8SysWoWReally?!? @UNCTarheel24 Liberals are nothing but trash!
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JIM BRONSON 1 hour ago
The problem is going to be that it was done by a White Artist.
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USAFSECFORCESVET 1 hour ago
Looks good to me...........
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THE`DEANER 2 hours ago
I like the exhibit.
It should symbolize the black violence problem in most of our large cities.
