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It got me angry and discouraged and frightened. So I had started creating pieces that were a response to that. Obama\u2019s election opened up this whole flood [of racism]. <i>Weight<\/i> was really a response to working at this art [in a] high school, and these students were really phenomenal. Many of them got scholarships, but they couldn\u2019t do it because they didn\u2019t have the money, or they had to help support their family. This was a high school that works with lower-income families in downtown Los Angeles. It broke my heart that they\u2019re still expected to be housekeepers like their mothers or laborers like their fathers. 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