Yes, our lips are full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, our noses are wide. Yes, our grandmothers and great grandmothers were maids. Yes, our grandfathers, great grandfathers were sharecroppers. Some were even numbers runners. If they were fortunate they were Pullman porters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, many of us have dined on and continue to dine on fried chicken and watermelon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And no, there\u2019s not a thing for which to be ashamed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s the message behind a collection of art called \u201cHysterio Types\u201d \u2013 the creation of artist Meyer Warren. \u201cHysterio Types\u201d was born following the release of Jay-Z\u2019s \u201cStory of OJ\u201d video, which used exaggerated cartoon depictions of Black people to tell a story of elevating out of present circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe \u2018Sambo\u2019 character was used in a derogatory way to depict Black people. What I do (with \u2018Hysterio Types\u2019), it\u2019s taking what was intended to make fun of us and flip it into a positive,\u201d said Warren. \u201cSo I may put a character eating watermelon in my painting and I want people to think there\u2019s nothing wrong with eating watermelon. Our people would eat watermelon because in the hot sun it provided needed nutrients and electrolytes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An abstract artist, Warren\u2019s works are filled with hidden \u201cgems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn many of my pieces you\u2019ll see \u2018XYZ\u2019 and that has meaning,\u201d explained the St. Paul native, Warren. \u201cX is the unknown, Y is the question and Z is the answer. It\u2019s the dark, the spark and the clarity. I want people to look at my art and research for understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHysterio Types\u201d will soon be wearable art, as Warren has teamed with Black Excellence Clothing founder Houston White to co-produce a line of shirts, hoodies, jackets and more. The line was set to make its debut April 14 but the 20 inches of snow in the area forced a postponement to May 19 \u2013 a date that was chosen with intention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat\u2019s Malcolm X\u2019s birthday,\u201d revealed Warren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The launch event takes place from 6 p.m. \u2013 10 p.m. at H. White Men\u2019s Room, 1500 44th<\/sup> Ave. N., Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, our lips are full. Yes, our noses are wide. Yes, our grandmothers and great grandmothers were maids. Yes, our grandfathers, great grandfathers were sharecroppers. Some were even numbers runners. If they were fortunate they were Pullman porters. Yes, many of us have dined on and continue to dine on fried chicken and watermelon. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2342,1536,2341,2343],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-hysterio-types","tag-jay-z","tag-stereotypes","tag-story-of-oj","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}