Art or Smth Idk (Inactive)

As of August 27th, 2020, it was revealed that Jake Parker (the creator of inktober) had plagiarized the work of black artist Alphonso Dunn in Parker’s upcoming book ‘Inktober All Year Long’.

Alphonso’s video breakdown of the similarities

Proof Jake Parker was aware of Dunn’s work beforehand (01-21-20)

Parker’s publisher puts his book on hold (08-28-20)

DeviantArt suspends their Inktober Awards (08-28-20)

Alphonso Dunn’s book: Pen & Ink Drawing

2020 Inktober alternatives:

that’s it. rosa’s feet were tired. 

You see, the actual, spontaneous, unplanned incident was done nine months earlier by a black girl named Claudette Colvin.  She was in the section designated for black people, however, the front became crowded and she was told to move to make way for a white woman (who was actually fine with standing as it turns out, to show how adamantly racist the bus driver was).  She refused and was arrested.

Rosa Parks was a secretary at one of many chapters of NAACP and they had seen the incident but they had multiple reasons for not wanting to publicize it when it happened.  One was that Claudette was a minor.  Another possibility is that Claudette had some marks on her past that could have been considered questionable or immoral and they wanted someone that white people couldn’t pick apart as a villain or a thug for when it happened.