Black suffering in schools is one manifestation of the anti-Blackness of our society, in which Black people are viewed with disgust and disdain, as non-humans worthy of violence and death.
Goldsmith himself retweeted angry responses to his reading – "Kenneth Goldsmith: art is not white appropriation of Black suffering.
"It is not acceptable for a white person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun," she wrote.
Although not all the whites are so unsympathetically drawn – Elise's mother is subtly portrayed as a woman who is coping with life rather than enjoying it – the picture is one of white complacency and black suffering.
It is not that schooling is only a site of Black suffering.
Students are also leading walkouts to protest various forms of Black suffering in schools.
Indeed, Black suffering in schools is a setup, and we are not, and were never meant to survive.
The 47-year-old artist has long been dogged by criticisms, both from black artists and the general public, for the ways in which she depicts black suffering.
