Who Are the Black Sheep Now?
NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera
“Black Sheep destinies,” Finley says in her poem, “are to give meaning in life, to be angels, to be conscience, to be nightmares, to be actors in dreams . . . We understand universal love/We understand unconditional love. We feel a unique responsibility a human responsibility for feelings for others.” Though the artists themselves might not like to hear it this way, it is a perspective on life far more Christian — far more like Jesus among the lepers — than any version of Christianity espoused by this country’s increasingly vengeful leaders. As such, it is the precise and polar opposite of the message transmitted from the Abu Ghraib pictures themselves, as well as from Rumsfeld’s and Bush’s attempts to squelch the outrage, and Senator James Inhofe’s implication that the people in the photographs deserved what they got (a speech for which he should burn in the hell he claims to believe in). In word and image, the administration’s performance in the last year has been obscene in its hatefulness and perverse in its arrogance. It’s time we discontinued its funding.
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