And good riddance.
BLM Plaza in DC dismantled after 5 years as bill threatens to withhold city’s funding
Work to dismantle the Black Lives Matter Plaza street mural in Washington, DC, that was put up in 2020 following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor began on Monday.Reconstruction at the site of the huge, yellow-painted letters close to the White House follows calls to withhold the city’s funding unless it removed the mural and renamed the location “Liberty Plaza.”
“The mural inspired millions and helped our city through a very painful period,” Bowser said.
“But now we can’t afford to be distracted by meaningless congressional interference. The devastating impacts of the federal job cuts must be our number one concern. Our focus is on economic growth, public safety, and supporting our residents affected by these cuts.”
Plans by House Republicans to scrub the divisive BLM mural were revealed in a Post exclusive earlier this month.
Monday’s dismantling of the mural was greeted with triumph by many conservatives — and slammed by those on the left.
“The world is healing,” wrote the Libs of TikTok account on X, run by pro-Trump influencer Chaya Raichik.
“The only people celebrating the dismantling of the Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC are racist fragile white people,” wrote another.
Let’s see now: racist, check; fragile, check (if you hit me in the face with a brick, do I not bleed?); white, check. Yup, ya got me—guilty as charged, on all counts. NOW what, fuckface?
New category for this sort of thing, inspired by the awesome, blistering Minor Threat song.
Update! For more of the impossibly brilliant DC hardcore of the legendary Minor Threat, check out this complete MT discography on YewToob. All the Minor Threat classics are here: I Don’t Wanna Hear It, Filler, 12XU, Small Man Big Mouth, Bottled Violence, Screaming At A Wall, et al. There really never has been anyone quite like ‘em, I must say.
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Shut up, swamp rat.
What about the hundreds or perhaps thousands of white people victimized by blacks?
robbed, raped, beat up, murdered?
and people call me racist, that 1911 is like an old fried that i instinctively can find no matter what, i dont give a crap what they call me, i will choose being judged by twelve rather than carried by six
…following the
killingssuicide of George Floyd…FIFY