May 23, 2013

From The Rush To Judgment Files: Meet The Black Artist Who Made The So-Called “Nigger Cake”

Posted on April 17, 2012 by in Articles

(Filed another one under: “Never mind, media, we’ll do your damned job.”)

See the evil, white, racist, Swedes. Look. White devils, the lot of them – even the one in black face on the horrific “chopping block”. Insensitive ghoulish bastards!

But that’s not the story.

The Internet was abuzz earlier today with news that the Swedes had lost their minds and were eating an horrifying cake, that was made to look like a black woman having her vagina cut apart. Gross, right?!

I tried to warn people off the rush to judgment until more about the story came out (you can see my Twitter stream for that). It’s a habit of some to wait until more facts come out before jumping to conclusions. Unfortunately, it’s a habit for others to jump the gun and scream “RACISM!!!” at the top of their internet lungs the instant they see something framed the way they don’t like. Never forget… the leftist media lies… constantly. However, this was the first story I saw circulating around the social web about the story today, and it came from Breitbart.com:

Swedish Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth joined in an unthinkably repulsive event on Saturday in which she carved the labia from a cake baked to look like a “stereotypical African woman.”

As the Swedish newspaper Fria Tider reported, “the self-proclaimed ‘anti-racist’ Liljeroth … slices and eats a cake depicting a black African woman with minstrel-esque face.” She was “performing a clitoridectomy (sic) on the cake.” Video of the party shows the cake screaming – the head of the cake was actually a person in blackface under the table – each time someone cuts the cake.

I expect the left to respond this way, because that’s been their historic M.O. However, I don’t expect those on “our side” to keep doing it when they continually end up being shown their folly. See: Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman for a more recent example. But, Breitbart runs with the story and cites “a person in blackface under the table”, and simply stops there with the story. That’s good enough, isn’t it? As if a bunch of white Swedes would be that stupid. Methinks some conservatives should consider traveling more. This is the story that Breitbart.com linked in their piece. Here’s the way the leftists at FriaTider tried to frame it. Screenshot of part of their piece:

Note the caption: “The maimed “corpse” of an African woman has sparked an outcry in social media.” Ffs. Yes, an outcry, because irresponsible and reactionary people with keyboards are allowed access to the Internet, you white boobs (see what I did there?).

Then other stories surfaced described the event as a means to raise awareness about the plight of African women who are routinely the victims of female genital mutilation. A good thing to bring to the world spotlight. It’s a horrible practice that I routinely call out on Twitter. In fact, I Tweeted about it last just 5 days ago.

Then I was finally linked to another story (thanks, @thekelliejane), that had the artist’s name, Makode Linde. This piece included the bit about the artist, stating that this bombast was his idea, because it was his art project! However, even though that particular story mentioned that the artist put on blackface, it still didn’t mention that the artist is a person of color. Behold the evil, racist, black, Swede who started all this (following pics from Makode Linde’s Facebook account):

Kickin’ it at the beach.

Here he wears a hat with the word “nigger” on it. Check out his sidekick “jail bait”. Lovers? Only speculating. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Here Makode’s pretending to be black Hitler. He had some other photos on Facebook where his friends were sporting the Hitler ‘stache – like the one next to him. Must be a popular thing in his circle. Or maybe he’s taking a break to smell his finger.

Maybe this is more “art”. Dunno.

Then finally, the screenshot from Facebook that lays it all out.

Here’s the text, in case some of you writers want to Bogart it to update your posts!

Documentation from my female genital mutilation cake performance earlier today at stockholm moma. This is After getting my vagaga mutilated by the minister of culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth. Before cutting me up she whispered “Your life will be better after this” in my ear.

I wonder what Lena meant by saying, “Your life will be better after this.” Maybe that he’d become more well-known as a result. Damn racist whitey trying to help the poor negro. Appalling.

Thanks, knee-jerk internet reactionaries. I’m guessing that Andrew Breitbart would’ve been embarrassed by what happened with some of his team today. Lest anyone, not even Touré, forget how Andrew felt about knee-jerk charges of racism. Here’s Touré’s account from the eulogy he wrote about AB:

For some reason, Andrew Breitbart loved to hate me. He named himself the executive producer of a fictional TV show he called That Broccoli’s Racist! The show’s host was me. The undergirding idea was to discredit the continuing existence of racism by saying “People like Touré will call anything racist, even a vegetable.”

We all make mistakes, but this one wasn’t sussed in the least. Do better next time, Internet. Remember where political correctness came from, people; Marxists. You’re not going to win the WAR this way. Remember, I’m neither a writer, nor a journalist. I was never here.

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  • Galadriel035

    Way to miss the point….Whether the artist is black, or latino or whatever, this is still of very bad taste and first degree. I think it’s even worse that he’s black. Like dude, what part of the word inappropriate don’t you understand. Not interesting in the very least. Say I was trying to raise awareness on rape, would I build a big mannequin made of cake for some minister to simulate penetrating his dick in her mame vagina??? Well, uh, no. Whatever, maybe a bad comparison I agree. But don’t call this art. If I had be a victim of excision, I would be so disgusted and pissed at that so called “artist”. 

    • http://brooksbayne.com brooksbayne

      missed the point? but, i called them “Insensitive ghoulish bastards!”

    • UmfromBrooklyn

      I so agree with you. Alot of words tossed around with an air of superiority doesnt make it art. It is disgusting! Makode is no 2 on The Black Communities much hated list. Obviously Zimmermam takes home 1st place. Even his cap with the N word is offensive. Morons like him never stop and think how many decent people of color as they were hanging at the end of a rope were called that right before they died and this asshole wears the word like a fashion statement.

  • http://twitter.com/_emmeFatale Mia ♕ B

    wow.
    you have one of the smarmiest writer’s voices i’ve seen on a blog.

    • http://brooksbayne.com brooksbayne

      thanks! precisely the tone i was going for in response to the left’s freakout against the long history of well-known anti-black swedish racism. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WJ62WFLUDMBAVJTU5AYLSDBPCY cooperfan

    You make me proud to have the first name Brooks! Glad I discovered you.

    What I find laughable about this is that a cross cultural perspective misses the whole point to those who rush to judgement. [ Didn't they make a movie called 'Lost in Translation' ]

    For example, in the heart of Paris, I stumbled upon a jazz club with an old fashioned “negro jockey horse hitch” out front. That same year, I travelled to Southern Pines, NC, and saw similar statues painted white, but still with Negroid features.

    In context, the Parisians saw Jazz music as being black, but didn’t see the statue as being emblematic of a slave. Rather, the statue from their perspective was an homage to the origins of the Jazz music they love so much.

    From our context, we now see the jockey statue as demeaning to blacks.

    Back to the cake ( wonder if it will show up on cake wrecks? ), it is quite possible from a Swedish perspective that it may have not been in bad taste. 

    But, my sarcastic observation is that the Minister Liljeroth, seen cutting the cake, must have a secret desire to appear in the Vagina Chronicles and believes the cutting of the cake will lead to numerous appearances on ‘broad’way thus explaining the statement “life will be better after this.”

    I tend to take the position that at its best, it was a sick and horrible waste of fondant and an absurd use of red velvet. Clearly, this artist needs to apprentice with Buddy Valastro to get it right.

    • http://brooksbayne.com brooksbayne

      glad you discovered us/me too. you’ve left one of the best comments on the graph in quite some time. 

      i traveled for about 10 years playing music. i have trotted the globe and as a result, i take the view that a country which harbors a deep racial double-standard is a country that is in danger of sliding into welfare state abyss. placating rather than reforming has proven to be an expensive irresponsibility. the marxist pc culture of knee-jerk reactionaries in america is as repugnant as our country’s racism and contributes to the cock-blocking of real reform. 

      also, buddy valastro! lol. +10 points.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WJ62WFLUDMBAVJTU5AYLSDBPCY cooperfan

        Thank you for the complement. 

        I love the name Brooks. Although, it really annoys me when someone calls me Brooke out of the blue because they just got to know a little girl named Brooke. What, I look like a 3 year toddler in a dress all of a sudden!

        And sadly, I lack your musical talent. If I were to travel and attempt to play music in other countries, I am almost certain that it would be considered an act of war or terrorism.

        I do, however, play a wicked kazoo.

        Travelling the globe in my younger days convinced me beyond a shadow of a doubt that capitalism played by honest and simple rules is the best hope for mankind. An America that lives up to her roots is a light to the world.

        You are quite correct in your observation. Those who now play the race or class card to gain power are no more than thieves who steal the goods and good name of those whom they hate and seek to influence others to feel the same way as they do. Sadly, they do it with the proceeds of what they steal calling it ‘Welfare.’

        Or, to put it more succinctly, the government can coerce you with a “boatload of money” because the truth is that boatload of money arrived on a pirate ship, not the good ship lollypop as had been first reported.

        Plus, I have an idea for reform. A bumper sticker that says: “Vote for the Mafia, they never spend more than they Steal.”

        • http://brooksbayne.com brooksbayne

          ah, the mafia. i’ve always admired those who can relate to animals and can do things like sleep with the fishes. 

  • Rnctheband

    Ok, it is quite horryfying that to think just because the so called artist is black that it s just a freeway to insult black people. It is sad and an enigma for me to comprehend why some people who never tasted the soup of biggotry, racism and exclusion, should be the judges of what is/should be racistic or not!
    The act of Makonde is just an undisputable sign that in order to be “accepted” in a white society, you ve to be “one” of them and what would be fitest in a white society than demonizing and animalizing black people.
    It is easier to hide behind some pseudo-artistic excuses than take responsability for some stone age behaviour that is expressed as hate for black people. 
    Makode contributed in kicking people that already are lying on the ground.
    There is no excuses, black or not!

    • http://brooksbayne.com brooksbayne

      “the soup of biggotry [sic], racism and exclusion”

      utter hilarity. thanks for making me laugh, “victim”. 

      • Rnctheband

        “Utter hilarity”? Wow, you just made me understand your “WHO”! I would never care about the epitets you put on me or  black people. “Victim”? No, that s reality and one should first qualify in human-beingness before understanding the Makode-case. As I said,  in “brooksbayne”, we ve a pseudo-psychologist with sophistic complex who´s making a myth of himself for being the “one” detaining and knowing where the truth is. Wow, again!

        • http://brooksbayne.com brooksbayne

          yes, victim. the white person is going to get you. watch… out… boo! 

      • Rnctheband

        …and by the by, do you live in Sweden? Do you know how Sweden treats foreigners? Did you know that Sweden has the race biological institute that was closed not for så long ago?

        • http://brooksbayne.com brooksbayne

          i’ve been and yes, i do know about sweden’s strange history of fascination with eugenics. btw check out this swedish bobsledder, she’s white though…

          • Rnctheband

            You ve been, good for you… I live in Sweden so please being a tourist doesn t mean jack in this case, you have to live it, feel it and see it to understand what it is all about.

          • http://brooksbayne.com brooksbayne

            we’re all aware of the racist violence in sweden. most of it coming from muslims. http://goo.gl/r7TsU multi-cultural fail.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000315637523 Mars Gomes

     don’t see the fuss with the all thing. my problem with the piece is the fact that circumnavigation is one of the interpretations of this cake by Makode. is he bleedin joking about clitoris amputation!? to me it looks like he wanted to catch a bird with a fishing rod and really got lost in translation. 
    Slighting of a female figure and eating it whether black or white was going to make it into the media anyway. If it wasn’t one thing would be the other. Maybe he should had call it Eat Pussy. That would be saying something with more guts. And by the way just to clarify….I am a woman…..so nothing sexist about it ok?

    • http://brooksbayne.com brooksbayne

      i’ve seen a lot of things in my day, but i’ve never witnessed screaming like that during cunnilingus. and i toured as a musician for 10 years!

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