Bentley Brown
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He had no way of paying it back.
So that was like the beginning of, I don't want to say the end, but it was the beginning of like a real hardship.
You go up to these people that are gatekeepers, and you plead your case.
Most people are just like, eh, whatever.
There's not a market for it right now.
And it's like, it's like, man, fuck you.
When we think about Black art or Black artists, right, we are very quick to add, like, a political tag to the thing.
I mean, I guess you could argue that Blackness in and of itself is a political thing.
But my dad was kind of much more of the camp of, like, just, like, make art for art's sake.
It's such a painful feeling.
It's such a painful feeling when you know that, like, you have such a special world and people don't give a shit.
Yeah, I mean, you rescued it, right?