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An incredible array of artists have participated in its programs, including Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Goode, bell hooks, Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker, among many others. Presently San Francisco artist Bernie Lubbell has a site-specific installation in the gallery, on view through June 7. \u003ci>Chasing Mehserle,\u003c/i> a new performance piece by Chinaka Hodge, jointly presented by Intersection for the Arts, Campo Santo and the Living Word Project (Youth Speaks theatre company) has performances scheduled through May 24. All current programs are slated to conclude on schedule. Summer programs will be announced in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of Intersections’ troubles comes at a time when many \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=134546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco arts organizations are struggling\u003c/a>, even amidst the city’s recent development boom. Community arts and education organization Root Division announced that it will need to relocate by the end of June, after receiving notice earlier this year that its rent would substantially increase. Recently Union Square non-profit Meridian Gallery was narrowly spared immediate \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/04/meridian-gallery/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eviction\u003c/a> after its landlords demanded a year’s rent and security deposit paid in advance, totaling $100,000. According to Meridian’s website, it presently has an extended lease through June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years Intersection for the Arts, Root Division and Meridian Gallery have all provided extensive youth and community education programs, as well as important venues for experimental and politically provocative contemporary art. 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Even as the city is making an effort to support the non-profit community, it is unclear whether or not these efforts will happen soon enough at this rate to protect some of the city’s most vital arts organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Below is the press release from Intersection of the Arts:\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dear Friends of Intersection for the Arts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are writing on behalf of the Board of Directors of Intersection for the Arts to inform you of difficult but necessary decisions that we have taken to confront fundamental challenges to the organization. For nearly 50 years, Intersection has existed as San Francisco’s oldest alternative arts space, weathering a myriad of challenges, successes and evolutionary changes. We now find ourselves at another major turning point. 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Like many non-profit, grassroots arts organizations, it has been a perpetual struggle, dependent on “angel donors,” “heroic” leadership and unpredictable trends. 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When I started the song, the music that tumbled from the speakers was that of the ever-recognizable jingle of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZB6WXDuM1g\">ice cream truck\u003c/a> (For the record, not all ice cream trucks play this same song, but a great many of them do.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As quickly as it began, the music paused, and this call-and-response ensued:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>Browne: \"You n******s quit throwin' them bones and come down and get your ice cream!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black men (incredulously): \"Ice Cream?!?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Browne: \"Yes, ice cream! Colored man's ice cream: WATERMELON!!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mouth dropped. The music immediately resumed and so did the racism. I soon realized that the ice cream truck song was forever ruined for me, especially once the chorus began:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>N***** love a watermelon ha ha, ha ha!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>N***** love a watermelon ha ha, ha ha!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For here, they're made with a half a pound of co'l\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's nothing like a watermelon for a hungry coon\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebh6x6Bze_0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Origin of the song\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wondered how such a prejudiced song could have become the anthem of ice cream and childhood summers. I learned that though Mr. Browne was fairly creative in his lyrics, the song's premise and its melody are nearly as old as America itself. As often happens with matters of race, something that is rather \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/03/23/291525991/when-vanilla-was-brown-and-how-we-came-to-see-it-as-white\">vanilla\u003c/a> in origin is coopted and sprinkled with malice along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his creation, Browne simply used the well-known melody of the early nineteenth-century song \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsnZxfkkoKQ\">Turkey in the Straw\u003c/a>,\" which dates back to the even older and traditional British song \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etQ7knwsglU\">The (Old) Rose Tree\u003c/a>.\" The tune was brought to America's colonies by Scots-Irish immigrants who settled along the Appalachian Trail and added lyrics that mirrored their new lifestyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first and natural inclination, of course, is to assume that the ice cream truck song is simply paying homage to \"Turkey in the Straw,\" but the melody reached the nation only after it was appropriated by traveling blackface minstrel shows. There is simply no divorcing the song from the dozens of decades it was almost exclusively used for coming up with new ways to ridicule, and profit from, black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blackface minstrels steal the show\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1820s, the music was given new lyrics that dripped with racism and titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0i9XMyTw-o\">Zip Coon\u003c/a>.\" The blackface character of the same name parodied a free black man attempting to conform to white high society by dressing in fine clothes and using big words. Fifty years later in antebellum America, the character became an archetype of the black urbanite and propelled minstrel shows to the height of their popularity. Zip Coon was the city slicker counterpart to the dimwitted, rural blackface character whose name became infamous in 20th century America — Jim Crow. 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After World War II, the advent of the automobile and the ensuing sprawl required parlors to devise a way to take their products to the customers. The ice cream truck was the solution and a music box was installed in them as a way to announce their presence in neighborhoods. Naturally, the traditional minstrel tunes of the previous century were employed to evoke the memorable parlor experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is the story of why our beloved ice cream truck plays blackface minstrel music that sends kids dashing into homes in a Pavlovian frenzy searching for money to buy a popsicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Race, ice cream and America\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the nation's capital, the cherry blossoms have come and gone. This means the warm weather will soon bring out the ice cream trucks, and I'll be confronted once again by its inconvenient truth. It's not new knowledge that matters of race permeate the depths of our history and infiltrate the most innocent of experiences, even the simple pleasure of ice cream (Who can forget Eddie Murphy's famous, NSFW routine about \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg-csjbwo5s\">the poor, black experience with ice cream trucks\u003c/a>?). However, when the reach of racism robs me of fond memories from my childhood, it feels intensely personal again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever I hear the music now, the antique voice laughing about n******s and watermelon fills my head. I can live with this, but what's to be done on the summer day when my children's eyes light up at the far-off sound of the familiar melody, and they dash in a frenzy towards me for change? Do I empower them with the history of our country or encourage the youthful exuberance induced by the ice cream truck? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Origin of the song\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wondered how such a prejudiced song could have become the anthem of ice cream and childhood summers. I learned that though Mr. Browne was fairly creative in his lyrics, the song's premise and its melody are nearly as old as America itself. As often happens with matters of race, something that is rather \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/03/23/291525991/when-vanilla-was-brown-and-how-we-came-to-see-it-as-white\">vanilla\u003c/a> in origin is coopted and sprinkled with malice along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his creation, Browne simply used the well-known melody of the early nineteenth-century song \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsnZxfkkoKQ\">Turkey in the Straw\u003c/a>,\" which dates back to the even older and traditional British song \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etQ7knwsglU\">The (Old) Rose Tree\u003c/a>.\" The tune was brought to America's colonies by Scots-Irish immigrants who settled along the Appalachian Trail and added lyrics that mirrored their new lifestyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first and natural inclination, of course, is to assume that the ice cream truck song is simply paying homage to \"Turkey in the Straw,\" but the melody reached the nation only after it was appropriated by traveling blackface minstrel shows. There is simply no divorcing the song from the dozens of decades it was almost exclusively used for coming up with new ways to ridicule, and profit from, black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blackface minstrels steal the show\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1820s, the music was given new lyrics that dripped with racism and titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0i9XMyTw-o\">Zip Coon\u003c/a>.\" The blackface character of the same name parodied a free black man attempting to conform to white high society by dressing in fine clothes and using big words. Fifty years later in antebellum America, the character became an archetype of the black urbanite and propelled minstrel shows to the height of their popularity. Zip Coon was the city slicker counterpart to the dimwitted, rural blackface character whose name became infamous in 20th century America — Jim Crow. These two characters would often interact on stage and were the inspiration for the hugely successful Amos 'n' Andy act decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lyrics of \"Zip Coon\" follow the namesake through encounters with possums, playing the banjo, and courting a woman whose skin was so black that he calls her \"ol Suky blue skin.\" A century later, it was still celebrated and inspiring America's music. The recognizable melody aside, we've all sung a variation of the lyrics. The chorus goes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>O zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(If this sounds similar to the Academy Award winning \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcxYwwIL5zQ\">Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah\u003c/a>,\" it's because that song was derived from this chorus)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the turn of the twentieth century, one of the nation's \u003ca href=\"http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/index.htm\">most popular collectibles was the coon card\u003c/a> — a postcard with racist artwork, such as bug-eyed, clown-faced blacks eating watermelon. These items were essentially the racist version of trading cards and nearly ubiquitous. Browne meshed the theme of the popular coon cards with the familiar melody and voila: \"N***** Love a Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ice cream cross-over happened concurrently. Nineteenth-century ice cream parlors played the popular minstrel songs of the day. After World War II, the advent of the automobile and the ensuing sprawl required parlors to devise a way to take their products to the customers. The ice cream truck was the solution and a music box was installed in them as a way to announce their presence in neighborhoods. Naturally, the traditional minstrel tunes of the previous century were employed to evoke the memorable parlor experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is the story of why our beloved ice cream truck plays blackface minstrel music that sends kids dashing into homes in a Pavlovian frenzy searching for money to buy a popsicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Race, ice cream and America\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the nation's capital, the cherry blossoms have come and gone. This means the warm weather will soon bring out the ice cream trucks, and I'll be confronted once again by its inconvenient truth. It's not new knowledge that matters of race permeate the depths of our history and infiltrate the most innocent of experiences, even the simple pleasure of ice cream (Who can forget Eddie Murphy's famous, NSFW routine about \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg-csjbwo5s\">the poor, black experience with ice cream trucks\u003c/a>?). However, when the reach of racism robs me of fond memories from my childhood, it feels intensely personal again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever I hear the music now, the antique voice laughing about n******s and watermelon fills my head. I can live with this, but what's to be done on the summer day when my children's eyes light up at the far-off sound of the familiar melody, and they dash in a frenzy towards me for change? Do I empower them with the history of our country or encourage the youthful exuberance induced by the ice cream truck? 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