Posted on 07/31/2021 11:52:16 AM PDT by simpson96
A giant mural including a Black Lives Matter-style fist in New Jersey was partially whitewashed soon after it was finished following a flood of complaints, according to the artist.
May Yuasa, 19, told NorthJersey.com that she spent 60 hours painting the mural on a Garden State Parkway underpass in Clifton last week after getting permission from City Manager Dominick Villano.
But she was told that the part showing the fist quickly led to complaints — and Villano sent city workers to paint a white box over the offending image, he confirmed to the outlet.
That decision sparked further outrage — and now the entire mural celebrating the community’s diversity will be completely removed.
Despite Villano giving permission, the underpass is actually the property of the New Jersey Turnpike/Garden State Parkway Authority, which confirmed to the outlet that murals are not allowed and Yuasa’s artwork would have to go.
Yuasa, a recent Clifton High School graduate, insisted that her artwork was merely trying to “show unity and to celebrate Clifton’s diversity.”
“I’m confused as to why it offended anyone,” she told the local site.(snip)
She also attacked the “cowardly” way complaints were only made through emails and calls to the city manager.
“During the time that I worked on it, not a single person came up to me to communicate their feelings,” she insisted.
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The art is guilty....the artist not so much.
A product of the best indoctrination our schools have to offer. Reinforced by news and social media.
Good! blm murals are no different than burning a cross in someone’s yard. They are designed specifically to intimidate.
I wonder if one of the complaints came from someone Who controls lightening.
Frida Kahlo was a communist Mexican painter who was lover of Diego Rivera. A wealthy American family lost their daughter, who depressed over a failed affair with FDR’s Harry Hopkins, jumped out the window of a New York skyscraper. They hired Kahlo to do a postmortem painting of their daughter. They were shocked and horrified at the unveiling when Kahlo’s portrait of their daughter showed her flying out the window of a tall building. Moral of the story? You cannot appease a red Communist; if you don’t agree with them, they hate you and want you dead.
I think that’s the Route 3 underpass not the GSP itself.
She’s a cute little thang. She stays so superficial me can look at her, but the painting goes.
Ripe for a drive by with a spray paint can or two.
“I’m confused as to why it offended anyone,”
Dumbass. 19 years old. Of course she’s confused.
When I was in college most commie agitprop I saw inevitably had images of arms loudly and proudly raised up holding Soviet style rifles. But now, guns are raaaaacist and stuff......
“During the time that I worked on it, not a single person came up to me to communicate their feelings,” she insisted
You want some experience with diversity, take yourself and paint brush over the Bed Sty and see how much diversity you can handle.
If she didn’t get a permit, that’s not a mural, it’s defacement of public property.
That “Black Lives Matter Fist” has nothing to do with racial injustice of any kind. I has fully to do with the fact that BLM and Antifa are Marxist in nature and design, and the realization that Marxism based on class is never going to gain a foothold in the United States.
So they have substituted race for class. And it is focused and intentional.
Black Lives Matter racist, ignorant, and malignant, and anyone supporting it is at least one of those three things, if not all three.
And that ignores the history of the raised fist in Marxist iconography. They are only missing the rose.
In a nutshell, laconic.
In a nutshell. Americans don't understand that about the ChiComs.
It’s near the golf course where they shot a scene from the Sopranos. Know the area well.
She is exactly the demographic they target. The kind who comes home and asks her distracted parents if she can put BLM and ‘In This Home” signs on their front yard.
Go for them young. And get the females first.
you tell the girl that the fist is a symbol of forkful oppressions of those that disagree with communism . then ask how many people do you plan to put against the wall to get the utopia that is communism.
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