Yes, this is still a racist, sexist, unequal world.

[athena]

206. Useless speculation masquerading as thoughtful commentary.

Speculating about the hypothetical situation in which a misogynistic and racist work of "art" might have been created by a black woman is as meaningful as speculating about the hypothetical scenario in which slave-owners in the antebellum south were mostly black.

As it happens, the "artist" is not a black woman. He is a white man. Here is some of his other "art":
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/14/bjarne-melgaard_n_3895425.html

Finally, even supposing the artist were black (I, who also happen to know something about art, disagree that the chair in question could have been created by a black woman -- suggesting otherwise is dismissive and disrespectful of minority artists), that still does not make the work of art non-racist and non-sexist.

I suspect that all this is very hard to understand for someone who thinks that being a "non-white female" makes them by definition non-racist and non-sexist. (Hint: we are all racist and sexist; no one -- regardless of color and gender -- can live in our racist and sexist society without absorbing some of its racist and sexist attitudes. The best defense against this is to question oneself constantly. Anyone who says, "But I'm not racist or sexist" is probably both racist and sexist, since not being so requires constant vigilance and self-questioning.)