This is our webiste: http://boycotthumanzoouk.com/ so YOU can stay updated with us. We are Lobbying TOMORROW HERE: -- LOBBY OF THE CITY OF LONDON Thurs 11 SEPT, at 12.15pm : https://www.facebook.com/events/283781875143727/?context=create&source=49 And on Saturday we rally here: MASS PETITION HAND IN SAT 13 SEPT 1.00PM : https://www.facebook.com/events/770371516354614/?source=1 We are asking as many of you that have signed the petition who can come out to do just that!! Let stand up for the RESPECT of our culture and the culture of other peoples, lets stand up to racism and the oppression of African Peoples. Brett Bailey continues to MOCK the campaign: http://mg.co.za/article/2014-09-04-brett-baileys-exhibit-b-knots-up-london-knickers BUT over 19,000 of us cannot be wrong...we call a monster what it is... a monster!! Here are a just few comments of the 19,000 of people on why they have signed! Carol Dixon SHEFFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM If the Barbican wanted to draw attention to the traumatic legacies of colonial violence, then they should have worked with organisation such as the FLT (Fondation Lilian Thuram: Éducation Contre le Racisme) and ACHAC to present an historical, anti-racist exhibition about ‘human zoos’ (sensitively and accurately curated, in consideration of the needs of diverse, multi-racial prospective visiting audiences) from which everyone could obtain insights – as the Quai Branly Museum did when it collaborated with Lilian Thuram and Pascal Blanchard on ‘Human Zoos/Zoos Humains: L’Invention du Sauvage’ in Paris back in 2012. ‘Exhibit B’ is a racist exhibition that follows in the wake of centuries of physical and psychological violations against people of African descent – so assigning the labels ‘art’ and ‘aesthetics’ just adds further insult to its traumatising effects. The Barbican should not need to be reminded about the brutalities inflicted upon the likes of Saartje Baartman, Ota Benga and countless other African (and African Diaspora) men and women over the centuries… and have they really forgotten the more recent controversies and shock tactics used by (a so called ‘artist’) Makode Aj Linde to justify the presentation of a racist and sexist ‘screaming cake installation’ at the Moderna Museet in Sweden, deliberately designed to symbolise (and caricature in so many offensive ways!) a black female victim of FGM? Brett Bailey’s ‘Exhibit B’ is racist in conceptualisation and presentation, so (by default) the artist and any exhibiting institutions supporting its display are openly condoning racism, and are certainly NOT doing anything to challenge it! Paul Keem LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM As a white male, I cannot stand by while my black brothers and sisters are traduced in this way Davinia Seville BIRMINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM I want to see positive works for African history, as everyone has in theirs. This is most definitely negative and attempting to keep the image of low class in today's society like your trying to refresh people's mind... Jenny Lam WOKINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM I feel it is very inappropriate & insensitive to many black people who have been traumatised by their ancestor's past to have such an exhibition which enables people to make mockery & make light of such an experience. It is wrong to recreate this in such a biased way. To everyone who has commented, signed and shared this petition, Peace, Love&Light to you. I personally look forward to meeting as many of you of as possible who have made this campaign the success that is it!! Sara xxx