@bisabutler 🔥 If We Must Die an excerpt from the poem by Claude McKay 1889-1948 If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! In honor of the Black people who have been unjustly slain. #breonnataylor #ahmaudarbery #georgefloyd #michaelbrown #tonymcdade #sandrabland #shukriabdi #ericgarner #freddiegray Zouave, 2020 **there is no paint on this artwork* The Zouaves were of the most decorated units of the French army who came from north, west and East African French colonies. The Zouaves were used on the front lines of WWI and suffered heavy casualties in France while still being under colonial oppression at home. This was inspired by photo of a likely Senegalese soldier in Paris in 1915 Cotton, silk, wool and velvet, quilted and appliquéd, 54” x 88” Private collection *the fabric on his pants is called Kofi Annan’s Brain after the former and late UN Secretary General known for his brilliance. #SupportBlackArt #BisaButler https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTPrTHh1AX/?igshid=vh3743fotj1b
