Candyman
He discloses that "Candyman" was Daniel Robitaille, an African-American man born in the late 1800s as the son of a slave who grew up to become a renowned painter. After he fell in love with and impregnated a white woman, her father sent a lynch mob after him. The mob sawed off his right hand and smeared him with honeycomb stolen from an apiary, attracting bees that stung him to death. His corpse was burned in a pyre erected on the site where the Cabrini-Green Homes were eventually built.he painter out into a field where he chained him to a log, sawed off his painting hand with a rusty saw, and then stripped him to his waist and covered his bare chest with honey so the bees would come and eat his flesh away.Candyman was originally a freed slave who was also a skilled portrait painter. A plantation owner hired him to paint his daughter's portrait. Unknown to him, the painter and daughter fell in love. When the plantation owner discovered their affair, he was engaged and drug the painter out into a field where he chained him to a log, sawed off his painting hand with a rusty saw, and then stripped him to his waist and covered his bare chest with honey so the bees would come and eat his flesh away.
In the film series, he is depicted as an African-American man who was brutally murdered for a forbidden 19th-century interracial love affair; he returns as an urban legend, and kills anyone who summons him by saying his name five times in front of a mirror. People typically take this step because someone in their life is abusing or harassing them and they want relief - which Candyman certainly provides. However, the person who summons Candyman usually ends up done in by him as well - just like any time we summon up our deepest wounds, rages, and horrors to get us out of a jam. Candyman embodies the horrible humiliation, rage, shame and anger that many have stored up in themselves because of the abuse they have went through. In most the rage is thoroughly walled off; in others it leaks out; in yet others, it explodes like a grenade, taking out whomever is near!
Many of us have a Candyman inside. If you ever work in a prison, you will meet many of them firsthand as well as hear stories of the explosions and vengeance. This toy can help explore this dilemma and help determine the size of the atomic bomb some carry in their depths and begin discussions as to how to manage it, contain it, or defuse it (if possible).
This is especially relevant in a world where more and more despots are seeking power. They typically seek to connect with the rage in people as their base of power. The less aware a person is of their internal rage, or the less they know how to manage it, the more it is available to be exploited by others. Just think of all the movies you've seen where powerful people hire Candyman types to protect them or take out their competitors. And, if you can find good citizens who are totally unaware of their wounds inside, and nothing leaks out ever, you’d got Class AAA followers to boast of and to certify your own claimed lack of malfeasance.
This toy is also a tool for exploring racial bias and violence. How the skills of people judged to be inferior are welcome as long as they don't think they can partake of the good life and resources of those who are their superiors. This appears to be a tragic historical dilemma that never seems to fade away, but keeps being renewed somewhere in the world on a daily basis. (Read Isabel Wilkerson’s CASTE for further elucidation of these ideas and concerns, and then some!)
He discloses that "Candyman" was Daniel Robitaille, an African-American man born in the late 1800s as the son of a slave who grew up to become a renowned painter. After he fell in love with and impregnated a white woman, her father sent a lynch mob after him. The mob sawed off his right hand and smeared him with honeycomb stolen from an apiary, attracting bees that stung him to death. His corpse was burned in a pyre erected on the site where the Cabrini-Green Homes were eventually built.he painter out into a field where he chained him to a log, sawed off his painting hand with a rusty saw, and then stripped him to his waist and covered his bare chest with honey so the bees would come and eat his flesh away.Candyman was originally a freed slave who was also a skilled portrait painter. A plantation owner hired him to paint his daughter's portrait. Unknown to him, the painter and daughter fell in love. When the plantation owner discovered their affair, he was engaged and drug the painter out into a field where he chained him to a log, sawed off his painting hand with a rusty saw, and then stripped him to his waist and covered his bare chest with honey so the bees would come and eat his flesh away.
In the film series, he is depicted as an African-American man who was brutally murdered for a forbidden 19th-century interracial love affair; he returns as an urban legend, and kills anyone who summons him by saying his name five times in front of a mirror. People typically take this step because someone in their life is abusing or harassing them and they want relief - which Candyman certainly provides. However, the person who summons Candyman usually ends up done in by him as well - just like any time we summon up our deepest wounds, rages, and horrors to get us out of a jam. Candyman embodies the horrible humiliation, rage, shame and anger that many have stored up in themselves because of the abuse they have went through. In most the rage is thoroughly walled off; in others it leaks out; in yet others, it explodes like a grenade, taking out whomever is near!
Many of us have a Candyman inside. If you ever work in a prison, you will meet many of them firsthand as well as hear stories of the explosions and vengeance. This toy can help explore this dilemma and help determine the size of the atomic bomb some carry in their depths and begin discussions as to how to manage it, contain it, or defuse it (if possible).
This is especially relevant in a world where more and more despots are seeking power. They typically seek to connect with the rage in people as their base of power. The less aware a person is of their internal rage, or the less they know how to manage it, the more it is available to be exploited by others. Just think of all the movies you've seen where powerful people hire Candyman types to protect them or take out their competitors. And, if you can find good citizens who are totally unaware of their wounds inside, and nothing leaks out ever, you’d got Class AAA followers to boast of and to certify your own claimed lack of malfeasance.
This toy is also a tool for exploring racial bias and violence. How the skills of people judged to be inferior are welcome as long as they don't think they can partake of the good life and resources of those who are their superiors. This appears to be a tragic historical dilemma that never seems to fade away, but keeps being renewed somewhere in the world on a daily basis. (Read Isabel Wilkerson’s CASTE for further elucidation of these ideas and concerns, and then some!)
He discloses that "Candyman" was Daniel Robitaille, an African-American man born in the late 1800s as the son of a slave who grew up to become a renowned painter. After he fell in love with and impregnated a white woman, her father sent a lynch mob after him. The mob sawed off his right hand and smeared him with honeycomb stolen from an apiary, attracting bees that stung him to death. His corpse was burned in a pyre erected on the site where the Cabrini-Green Homes were eventually built.he painter out into a field where he chained him to a log, sawed off his painting hand with a rusty saw, and then stripped him to his waist and covered his bare chest with honey so the bees would come and eat his flesh away.Candyman was originally a freed slave who was also a skilled portrait painter. A plantation owner hired him to paint his daughter's portrait. Unknown to him, the painter and daughter fell in love. When the plantation owner discovered their affair, he was engaged and drug the painter out into a field where he chained him to a log, sawed off his painting hand with a rusty saw, and then stripped him to his waist and covered his bare chest with honey so the bees would come and eat his flesh away.
In the film series, he is depicted as an African-American man who was brutally murdered for a forbidden 19th-century interracial love affair; he returns as an urban legend, and kills anyone who summons him by saying his name five times in front of a mirror. People typically take this step because someone in their life is abusing or harassing them and they want relief - which Candyman certainly provides. However, the person who summons Candyman usually ends up done in by him as well - just like any time we summon up our deepest wounds, rages, and horrors to get us out of a jam. Candyman embodies the horrible humiliation, rage, shame and anger that many have stored up in themselves because of the abuse they have went through. In most the rage is thoroughly walled off; in others it leaks out; in yet others, it explodes like a grenade, taking out whomever is near!
Many of us have a Candyman inside. If you ever work in a prison, you will meet many of them firsthand as well as hear stories of the explosions and vengeance. This toy can help explore this dilemma and help determine the size of the atomic bomb some carry in their depths and begin discussions as to how to manage it, contain it, or defuse it (if possible).
This is especially relevant in a world where more and more despots are seeking power. They typically seek to connect with the rage in people as their base of power. The less aware a person is of their internal rage, or the less they know how to manage it, the more it is available to be exploited by others. Just think of all the movies you've seen where powerful people hire Candyman types to protect them or take out their competitors. And, if you can find good citizens who are totally unaware of their wounds inside, and nothing leaks out ever, you’d got Class AAA followers to boast of and to certify your own claimed lack of malfeasance.
This toy is also a tool for exploring racial bias and violence. How the skills of people judged to be inferior are welcome as long as they don't think they can partake of the good life and resources of those who are their superiors. This appears to be a tragic historical dilemma that never seems to fade away, but keeps being renewed somewhere in the world on a daily basis. (Read Isabel Wilkerson’s CASTE for further elucidation of these ideas and concerns, and then some!)