"“BLACK LIVES MATTER” has been permanently painted on the main roadway"
Permanently?
Nonsense.
Posted on 10/30/2021 11:14:03 AM PDT by simpson96
A bright yellow mural declaring “BLACK LIVES MATTER” has been permanently painted on the main roadway leading to the White House, and work to redesign the surrounding street to accommodate a pedestrian gathering space is also complete.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had the original mural painted in June 2020. She renamed the two-block stretch of 16th Street NW to Black Lives Matter Plaza, days after federal law enforcement officers violently shoved and fired tear gas at demonstrators protesting police brutality.
“We sent a strong message that Black Lives Matter, and that power has always been and always will be with well-meaning people,” Bowser said in a press release. “Today, we have transformed the mural into a monument.”
The city started work on the new streetscape and permanent mural, which is the centerpiece of Black Lives Matter Plaza, in July. The art installation is now surrounded by one northbound and one southbound lane of traffic. A pedestrian walkway cuts through the center of the plaza.
The project cost $4.8 million, Bowser said. D.C. is expected to spend another $3 million to reconstruct nearby sidewalks as well as add new benches, lighting, signs and trees.
Protesters converged on the plaza throughout the summer of 2020. The site grew in importance as demonstrations against police brutality intensified.
Bowser’s decision to have the street painted was widely interpreted as a rebuke to President Trump, garnering the mayor national attention and inspiring similar installations around the country.
The mural is both a source of intense pride and a target of criticism for D.C. residents.
Local activists have decried the mural as performative and used it to draw attention to Bowser’s policies around policing.
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"“BLACK LIVES MATTER” has been permanently painted on the main roadway"
Permanently?
Nonsense.
Communists !!!!!
Thank You!! Now I KNOW WHERE NOT TO GO!!
BLM Plaza doesn’t matter.
Tell us all why a mayor of a Federal Reservation has the right to dictate what monuments will be in that capitol.
Is she now the de facto head of state?
Totally insane.
They now need a sign that says “Pervert Lives Matter”—otherwise the Deities of the Woke Pantheon will get very very angry.
16th street is a major thoroughfare in DC...now it’s blocked off.
My, how Soviet.
Photo tributes of each and every victim of black-on-black violence would be appropriate.
Washington DC swims with crime and corruption of every stripe. Negroes in Washington DC have no one to blame but themselves. They run the show, but then that is true of almost every major city.
If painting that slogan on a public taxpayer funded street isn't racist, then nothing is racist.
4 million 800 thousand for some bollards, bricks and paint...ridiculous
Agreed, agreed, agreed. Even after Marion Berry was busted smoking crack with his hooker companion, the idiots still re-elected him. They get the government they want... and deserve.
You buy a building and pay your taxes thinking there will always be a street in front of you.
Then you find it’s been blocked off and your tenants have the pleasure of looking at BLACK LIVES MATTER every day.
And if you speak out... You’re a hateful racist bigot.
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Where is Hispanic Lives Matter Plaza? Asian Lives Matter Plaza? White Lives Matter Plaza? Pacific Islanders Lives Matter Plaza? What is ironic? With the gentrification of DC continuing apace, 95% of the current black residents of DC won’t be able to afford to live there in five years.
Union and District workers....
Just surprised the mural isn’t orange.
What a waste of paint!
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