"..artists of all stripes": is Joe Scanlan referring to giraffes who make art? Or monkeys from Africa who've achieved too much privilege and education so he can make them his monkeys--or mouthpiece?

It's a misguided projection--as all projections are--that Black folk will do with power what white people do with it. Maybe what they're afraid of is that these racist white supremacist oligarchs in the art world will get what they deserve: invisibility which equals death