“For months now, MMoCA has repeatedly failed to keep Black artists and their art safe, going as far as to deny any wrongdoing. In their own statement, the Executive Committee claims that while “MMoCA, like all museums, is grappling with historic institutional racism,” the defacement of Gee’s work “does not equate to disrespect for the Black artists or guest curator of the exhibit, nor does it point to institutional racism.” This raises the question, what definition of institutional racism best serves MMoCA’s agenda? To acknowledge that your industry is complicit in institutional racism and that you yourself are grappling with it, while insisting that harm to a Black woman artist at your institution does not count, is power protecting itself.”