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Boneqweesha Jones: "W.E.B. DuBois, a great educator and one of the founders of the NAACP, said that the problem of the 20th century is the color line. Well, Mr. DuBois, it seems as if the issues and problems of racial intolerance have rolled over into the 21st century like unused cell-phone minutes, especially in towns like Germantown, Tenn., and Jena, La.

"I'm reporting live from the Clubb Chicken Wing Complex where artists from the Ghetto Science Team's Visual Arts Collective # 703-1/16 present a creative form of protest in an art exhibit titled 'Art, Politics and Protest: Trees, Intolerance and Ropes Don't Mix.' Bruh. Sylvester, resident missin' toe artist, is here to briefly describe three controversial works in this exhibit dedicated to the Jena Six."

Bruh. Sylvester: "The first piece is an oil painting by Mr. Philmo Jones titled 'Loose that Noose: Don't Hang Around in the Company of Bigots.'

"Here, Miss Wanda expresses her deepest feelings through embroidery with a knitted blanket piece titled 'We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest on This Blanket Until It Comes.'"

Boneqweesha Jones: "Now we come to the piece that has everyone thinking! And it is truly an attention grabber."

Bruh. Sylvester: "The song 'Strange Fruit' and the slogan from that credit-card commercial inspired me to make a three-dimensional sculpture titled 'The Olive Branch of Hypocrisy: What's Hanging from Your Tree?'"

Boneqweesha Jones: "Whew. Art: an imitation of life.

"Boneqweesha reporting."