A statue of a slovenly clad black woman looks down on the city of Rotterdam with damning eyes.
Since the beginning of June, a 13 foot high bronze statue of a sloppily dressed black woman in sweatpants and sneakers towers above Rotterdam’s Central Station. In its short life, it has already managed to sharply divide the people of the Dutch port city and beyond.
Some newspapers and other media wax lyrical about this pean to multiculturalism and diversity in a city totally transformed by extra-European immigration in the space of a few decades.
Others bristle at what they consider a symbol of a state-sponsored ideology aimed at forcing the population to toe the line.
