From the CBS transcript:
… A graphic exhibit of the shooting death of Ferguson teen Michael Brown by a white police officer is on display in Chicago. Even Brown’s father won’t view it.
CBS 2’s Mike Parker reports the art gallery on East 47th Street is the now at the center of a controversy. The owners have received hate mail and threats about one of their exhibits…
The exhibit is a white artist’s re-creation of Michael Brown’s lifeless body lying face down, uncovered, as part of a Chicago exhibit on white privilege.
It is stark and shocking and it has had a profound effect on his father.
“I really, really would like them to take that away,” Brown said. “I think it’s really disturbing, disgusting. I keep the thought, that thought, that picture is still in my head.”
The owners of the Gallery Guichard say they have no intention of covering up or removing the exhibit without first discussing it with the artist.
“The installation doesn’t say it’s for or against any side,” said owner Andre Guichard. “It really just says now that he has left us, he’s an angel.”…
Ti-Rock Moore is a white NOLA native, the child of professional artists, who upon reaching her AARP years abandoned a “well-paying professional career”, took a new name with a “hip-hop vibe”, and announced herself publicly as the artist she had always identified as:
My work is conceptual and reactive, and has been described as courageous and avant-garde. Honestly and frankly I explore white privilege through my acute awareness of the unearned advantage my white skin holds. My work is three dimensional and my preferred mediums are wood or neon…
And if she’d stuck to neon, or life-sized KKK mannequins, that would’ve been an exemplary thing for the woman who’s now being dismissed as the new Rachael Dolezal. Call me an old white fuddy-duddy, but there are places, Ms. Moore, to which you just do not go (and yes I can see that gallery owner Andre Guichard is a person of color; that’s no excuse for you).
Even a “reimagination” of Michael Brown’s death with a decently covered corpse would have been questionable; the display as it stands is just pandering to the lowest impulse to gawk at someone else’s tragedy, no matter how earnest its intention.