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My play, “The Slave Who Loved Caviar,” challenged the perception promoted by the Manhattan art industry that painter Jean Michel Basquiat was Andy Warhol’s “mascot.” Or it was because of Warhol’s beneficence that Basquiat, born of Haitian and Puerto Rican parents, became famous. Warhol’s reputation was on the decline when he began the collaboration, and More 1
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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org 4 and was authored by Ishmael Reed.