Beyoncé humiliated-not worthy of playing Sarah Baartman -"She does not have the essential human respect to be deserving of composing Sarah's story, not to mention filling the role," Chief Jean Burgess said in response to the news that US artist, lyricist and performer Beyoncé Knowles was dealing with a film to depict the life of the Khoikhoi lady Sarah Baartman, why should constrained perform in oddity appears in London because of her vast hindquarters.
"Disregarding the way that the Khoikhoi is alive and that Sarah's story would affect how we are depicted, is an error of awesome size," Burgess said.
Beyoncé humiliated-not worthy of playing Sarah Baartman -Burgess, of the First Indigenous Peoples of South Africa, kept up Knowles had no privilege to recount the story. "Why Sarah Baartman? Why not an anecdote around an Indigenous American lady? I can just see haughtiness in her endeavor to recount a story that is not hers to tell." She said counsel, regard, and recognizing the presence of the Peoples were central to the story.
Picture of Sarah Baartman below
Baartman was conceived around 1789 in the Gamtoos River Valley in the Eastern Cape, into the Gonaquasub tribe, part of the Khoikhoi.
Her substantial bottom and "uncommon shading" made her the object of interest for frontier Europeans who assumed that they were racially predominant.Read more here
"Disregarding the way that the Khoikhoi is alive and that Sarah's story would affect how we are depicted, is an error of awesome size," Burgess said.
Beyoncé humiliated-not worthy of playing Sarah Baartman -Burgess, of the First Indigenous Peoples of South Africa, kept up Knowles had no privilege to recount the story. "Why Sarah Baartman? Why not an anecdote around an Indigenous American lady? I can just see haughtiness in her endeavor to recount a story that is not hers to tell." She said counsel, regard, and recognizing the presence of the Peoples were central to the story.
Picture of Sarah Baartman below
Baartman was conceived around 1789 in the Gamtoos River Valley in the Eastern Cape, into the Gonaquasub tribe, part of the Khoikhoi.
Her substantial bottom and "uncommon shading" made her the object of interest for frontier Europeans who assumed that they were racially predominant.Read more here
