The only thing worse than having a neighbor who paints this on the side of her house:
Is finding out that the cross-eyed Native American is apparently utilized by other artists, as well:
This one is on etsy for a mere $2500 (and made by different people whom I hesitate to call “artists”).
See, the rendering by Crae Z. struck me as plain old bad painting. There’s no indication that she’s any good at this. But the sculpture, well, WTF?
AHA! I googled it, and it seems that some white people, having seen very old photos of Natives made them look cross-eyed (maybe because they weren’t a people who sat around posing for a camera?). So, yeah, there’s some cultural appropriation we can throw in the mix with stupidity and ignorance. This should be the universal symbol for stupid white people.
Sigh.
