A minister of culture should have had enough sense to look at the insanely racist cake, look back to the artist and say “no, thank you”. This is definitely a topic that need to be discussed but there are better ways than a blackface cake. Just because an artist is out there being stupid doesn’t mean we have to sit by and say “ooh how provocative”.

Linde made the cake with a full on golliwog face and said it’s meant to represent how white people consumed black people (which I think he made up after the controversy, frankly). Why would a minister of culture be like “yes, please, let me be the white person you speak of”.

Gross.