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Smorgasbord
13 years ago
There has to be a better use for bronze in Indonesia.
tfhr
13 years ago
The last time I saw something like that it was called a “lawn jockey”! They need to tear that thing down – all it’s missing is a lantern or a ring in the outstretched hand.
OLDPUPPYMAX
13 years ago
Who put this thing up in the first place? The government, hoping it would lead to a big handout? Anyhow, shouldn’t “little Barry” have a lantern and a jockeys hat?
bulwark
13 years ago
I had my comment deleted and received a warning at another website when they first ran a story on this statue for saying it was ugly and looked like the old lawn jockeys that were popular in this country at one time.I feel somewhat vindicated.
Skookum
13 years ago
The lawn jockey of yesteryear, the decidedly African caricature, of a heavyset black groom in worker’s clothing with a condescending jockey’s hat rushing out to welcome the ‘Massa’ with a lantern as he rides unto the plantation, has been replaced with a White slim steeple chase jockey looking man who looks cool and aloof as he waits, with his lantern held high, for his boss to ride into the yard.
Of course the Black figurines, once very popular on estates, disappeared with the advent of the Civil Rights Movement and seemed to be the birth of the ‘Politically Correct’ figure of the White Man. I have thought this situation to be hilarious for decades, the idea of people trying to be so correct with landscaping. Hopefully, the sculpture of Odumbo can be reproduced, before it is destroyed, so that we can all purchase cheap aluminum reproductions to sit in the yard with pink plastic flamingos, bird baths, and feeders. We can then use our artistic abilities to paint the lawn sculptures in all types of creative motifs.
That’s what you get for posting at Whitehouse.gov! (oh yeah, and lots of spam from Axelrod too)
Skookum
13 years ago
An afterthought, as a horseman who has worked over most of the civilized world, I have always been more at ease with the early black groom sculpture: he seemed anxious to work as opposed to the arrogant White man who seemed intent on watching rather than helping.
Hopefully, we will have a Mexican groom portrayed in the future, the White and Black stable personnel have been replaced with the Hispanic; otherwise, we will just have the Obama sculpture with his palm extended for a handout.
DR
13 years ago
The Indonesians must have found out he is also the “native” son of Kenya and Hawaii. They must be feeling dissed.
Neo
13 years ago
Frankly, I don’t like the guy .. but aren’t there better things to worry about than this stupid statue ?
There has to be a better use for bronze in Indonesia.
The last time I saw something like that it was called a “lawn jockey”! They need to tear that thing down – all it’s missing is a lantern or a ring in the outstretched hand.
Who put this thing up in the first place? The government, hoping it would lead to a big handout? Anyhow, shouldn’t “little Barry” have a lantern and a jockeys hat?
I had my comment deleted and received a warning at another website when they first ran a story on this statue for saying it was ugly and looked like the old lawn jockeys that were popular in this country at one time.I feel somewhat vindicated.
The lawn jockey of yesteryear, the decidedly African caricature, of a heavyset black groom in worker’s clothing with a condescending jockey’s hat rushing out to welcome the ‘Massa’ with a lantern as he rides unto the plantation, has been replaced with a White slim steeple chase jockey looking man who looks cool and aloof as he waits, with his lantern held high, for his boss to ride into the yard.
Of course the Black figurines, once very popular on estates, disappeared with the advent of the Civil Rights Movement and seemed to be the birth of the ‘Politically Correct’ figure of the White Man. I have thought this situation to be hilarious for decades, the idea of people trying to be so correct with landscaping. Hopefully, the sculpture of Odumbo can be reproduced, before it is destroyed, so that we can all purchase cheap aluminum reproductions to sit in the yard with pink plastic flamingos, bird baths, and feeders. We can then use our artistic abilities to paint the lawn sculptures in all types of creative motifs.
@bulwark:
That’s what you get for posting at Whitehouse.gov! (oh yeah, and lots of spam from Axelrod too)
An afterthought, as a horseman who has worked over most of the civilized world, I have always been more at ease with the early black groom sculpture: he seemed anxious to work as opposed to the arrogant White man who seemed intent on watching rather than helping.
Hopefully, we will have a Mexican groom portrayed in the future, the White and Black stable personnel have been replaced with the Hispanic; otherwise, we will just have the Obama sculpture with his palm extended for a handout.
The Indonesians must have found out he is also the “native” son of Kenya and Hawaii. They must be feeling dissed.
Frankly, I don’t like the guy .. but aren’t there better things to worry about than this stupid statue ?
@Neo: The statue is irrelevant. But the move by people in Indonesia to tear it down is not.
It’s proof positive that the Obama magic is OVER!
And that is newsworthy in my never humble opinion.