Content of their character rather than the colour of their skin perhaps..... artistic choice. I don't like the statue, but hey.... maybe it wasn't done for your approval? Maybe you should stop policing the creative work of other Black folks and reinforcing White Supremacy. Or does it not matter if white people think the statue is shit - as long as you agree with the principle of what they say first? Oh wait.... if I can get enough people to agree that your written attack on the artist is racist... then it is. According to this logic at least. https://medium.com/@MyLovelySuqu/racism-is-whatever-black-people-say-it-is-958680120821

Perhaps in 50 years your views on this wonderful statue will be considered racist and you just don't understand it enough yet. Hell, I don't like the statue - but then it's not in my country and I don't have to look at it so I'm going to continue to walk the socialist line.

It goes like this.... What a massive waste of money and a complete waste of fucking time. Now I know that's not racist a) because I'm a Penguin and b) because you already approved that sentiment.

It's great to know that 10 million dollars went to the middle class son of a Professor at Tisch and a Jazz musician. That's definitely how you tackle systemic racism, inflating the income of the middle class of conceptual art - and economic privilege.... as another commenter pointed out, that probably could've gone on supporting low income families or mental health, insurance payments, college education. That I could get behind....but hey, if what people like you want is not silencing Black voices and Hank Willis Thomas is Black then you got what you asked for. Nobody silenced him, he got to design a statue to celebrate the collective heritage of Black Americans and as a result you got a shit statue - tear it down yourself.