1. The author pointed out that taking offense as a rationalization for censorship is inappropriate.  The right to define art  belongs to everyone, but not only one community.  The development of art would be refrained if people always take the moral high ground in criticism.  “There is a deeply puritanical and anti-intellectual strain in American culture that expresses itself by putting moral judgment before aesthetic understanding.”
  2. The explicit equivalence between representation of a black boy in the painting and lynching activity is not logical.  The painting, compared to the lynching happened decades ago,  is much more abstract and  well-intended.
  3. The right to speak for the whole black community should’t only be defined by the black community since they are not necessarily the most educated people on racial problems.
  4. We need artists and curators who lack formal opportunities to engage with critical race discourses and histories of anti-racist cultural production.