Comments on Fred Wilson and Impressionism

Great post.

We were just talking about this topic the other day. I heard there's a plan to move the Jimmy Hendricks statue from Broadway to the new African American museum...because it obviously 'goes' better there. WTF?

This is a really interesting post.

I've observed after spending time on both sides of the Atlantic that there is a huge cultural difference between notions of racism in the Americans and Europeans that this post touches on: in Europe, the very mention of Difference is considered racist per se; in the U.S., the *failure* to talk openly about Difference is considered racist. (The same applies to homophobia: if you even *talk* about homosexuality, it's homophobic to many Europeans.)

Now imagine what a European thinks the first time he or she has to fill out a questionnaire with the question, "What race/ethnicity are you?" They can't imagine usually that all we want to find out in asking for this information is if things are diverse enough.

The cultural difference adds a layer of complexity when Europeans and Americans try to talk about otherness.

I love the crown.

@4: Me too. Gorgeous.

@ 3 Couldn't agree more. Im not sure which is more beneficial or less but I find it interesting that we can have endless discussions about how to adress the problem of segregation in schools on the basis of performance, while most Europeans seem to think as long as the system isn't excluding people explicitly on the basis of color, its all gravy.