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"[...] I do think that the prevalent ... that is actually the only art, the primary kind of art that white people make about black people, is about slavery, is about supporting slave-based narratives depicting the crimes of slavery. And that has been happening in so many different ways -- I've actually never seen a movie that talks about black people in the context of royalty, or anything that's pre-colonial at all, but rather just continual representation of us in this way. And it has not been effective: it has not sparked these amazing dialogues between our communities of actually changing the way that race is functioning -- or racism is functioning -- in our world. And that, for me again, feels ... all of those narratives don't really feel like they're about me [...]" -- Kim Milan, executive director of The People Project, on the CBC radio program The Current, 2015-04-20, "Exhibit B 'human zoo' sparks art and censorship controversy" (quoted response is at 0:16:38 in the segment podcast, probably around 0:38:00 in the whole episode)

[Errors in transcription are all mine, along with any errors in judgement as to exactly how to punctuate it and how much to clean up extemporanous speech to make it sound as polished as written text or not. I've chosen to hew very close to the words as I heard them.]