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Dread Scott s White People Can t Be Trusted with Power (2021)
Photo: Marc J. Franklin
Two text-based works by the artist Dread Scott, installed this week on the West 42nd Street façade of the Playwrights Horizon theatre, have already run up against the racist power structures they were made to critique. One is a 2007 piece titled
Imagine a World Without America, in which the titular phrase is rendered over a map devoid of North America. The second is a new piece, with a simple white font on a black background, that reads:
White people can’t be trusted with power. When Scott posted an image of the latter on social media, it was removed. “Instagram dubbed it ‘hate speech’,” the artist says. “Then I made a second post saying that they censored it, and they deleted that too. The justification of censorship for both was ‘hate speech’.” ....

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