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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
I don't know and I don't think that I really care enough, just curious.
Anyway, I have a book that that has a section that documents with words and pictures a trip of Warhola to the Bronx. All these black kids were being friendly to him and he was terrorized and wouldn't want to have anything to do with black people in the area.
I've also always found it odd that even though NYC certainly didn't have a shortage of gay black artists/activists in the 60's, the factory virtually had no blacks visiting it or forging artistic alliances in it.
Who knows, maybe he wasn't a racist at all.
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I vaguely remember reading the same account.
White hustler types were just culturally more likely to be among his circle, but, in general, Andy wasn't too keen on poor people. It's likely he was extemely nervous to be in that neighboorhood.
Although once very impoverished himself, he had managed against the odds to elevate his social status via hard work and moxie. He cared, as all know, immensely for his mother, but, as far as I know, never did much of anything for his siblings while alive.
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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
On the Victor Bockris's biography it says that when he lost weight in the mid-60's he started dressing like an SS soldier. The plot thickens........
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It's a good thing Henry Geldzahler never saw him in the outfit then.