Swedish minister in 'racist cake' controversy

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#Swedengate is trending on Twitter, because of course it is.

Sweden's culture minister is facing calls to step down after she was photographed cutting a cake shaped in the form of a naked black woman.

The incident involving Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth happened at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm. According to Radio Sweden, the museum said the cake was supposed to highlight the issue of female circumcision. But the Association for African Swedes said it was a crude racist caricature and called for Ms Liljeroth to resign.

Kitimbwa Sabuni, a spokesperson for the group, told Swedish news agency TT: "To say that you did this for a good cause only makes the mockery of people who are victims of racism and of circumcision worse."

The artist behind the cake, Makode Linde, who is black but was born in Stockholm, said the work had been misunderstood.

He told the BBC that his art had tackled different prejudices and ideas of oppression for many years.

"I've been doing this by revamping black faces into different contexts so when the Swedish Art Organisation asked me to design a cake for them it felt totally natural."
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(Source).

The offensive cake:

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I cannot understand how anyone thought this was a good idea, including the artist.
 
MikeTheNative said:
Reading the story it doesn't look intentional but surely someone had to step in some where and ask if this is a good idea?
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From that I've seen though, Sweden is heavily into black culture integration. Seems that they kind of went too far with this and still have a lot to learn about appropriateness.
 
I think on that sort of position you should probably think at seeing the cake that this isn't going to end well right?
 
Now I'm not saying the artist was aiming for this but if someone wanted to be pretty racist and offensive and had to design a cake then a gollywog cake is an excellent idea.
 
mjt said:
This story is from April 2012.......
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Oh yes, it's 10 years old.

This is quite funny from the Wiki article though:

When the first piece of the cake was cut, a resemblance of female genitals were revealed with [the artist] screaming to give the effect of an actual black woman being cut.
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Genius.
 
MikeTheNative said:
Reading the story it doesn't look intentional but surely someone had to step in some where and ask if this is a good idea?
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You'd think that was the case, but I can only assume that like many politicians regardless of their location, they are often surrounded by yes men/women who will gladly do what ever they need to do, to progress their own agenda/career rather than question their superior.
 
How is something ten years old trending on twitter without some bizarre bot scam to pump it up...
or does it just prove twitter is a cesspit and mugs are mugs???
 
Jesus christ for the first time in my life no joke i just read twitter.

its just a stream of people with "African" sounding names, yes i know that is stupid but you know what i mean, abusing Sweden and some of its very odd customs.

every now and then a "white" apologist also hating Sweden, lol

and a smattering of "go back home" types

accusing a country that has taken in 2 million migrants, 20% of its population, for being institutionally racist and hateful.....
Ya know, it works both ways... Flood communities with outsiders and they tend to push back. Some of them wont have any interest in integration.


omg i triggered :p



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ok makes sense i guess, it is mostly satirical and fantastic anyway :P
 
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