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New York City paints Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower in Manhattan
CNN ^ | July 9, 2020

Posted on 07/09/2020 1:57:43 PM PDT by Rennes Templar

(CNN)New York City is painting a Black Lives Matter mural on the street directly outside of Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan.

City employees began painting a stretch of Fifth Avenue, just in front of the Trump Organization's headquarters, on Thursday morning. Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized the stark yellow mural earlier this month.

The New York mayor rolled up his sleeves and painted a bit of the mural, too, clad in a mask and flanked by civil rights leader, the Rev. Al Sharpton.

"President Trump said we would be denigrating the luxury of Fifth Avenue. Let me tell you: we're not denigrating anything, we are liberating Fifth Avenue, we are uplifting Fifth Avenue," de Blasio said on Thursday in response to Trump's tweet last week criticizing de Blasio for "denigrating" the area.

He added, "Who built this city, who built this nation, and never got the acknowledgement, the recognition..." "When we say 'Black Lives Matter' there is no more American statement, there's no more patriotic statement, because there is no America without Black America. We are acknowledging the truth in ourselves and in America.

By saying 'Black lives matter' we are righting a wrong," de Blasio said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: akadeblasio; alsharpton; andrewcuomo; antifa; billdeblasio; newyork; newyorkcity; ocasiocortez; occasionalcortex
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To: Rennes Templar

Until Black Lives Matter protests in Chicago they are just Hypocritical Clowns to me.


81 posted on 07/09/2020 3:16:18 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Trump moved out of the state.

I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care any more.


82 posted on 07/09/2020 3:18:39 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Rennes Templar

This should be illegal — The City is defacing the street in a political stunt.


83 posted on 07/09/2020 3:19:28 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: Regulator

They should have a scoreboard there where they can post the daily death count.


84 posted on 07/09/2020 3:19:46 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: trublu

And the police will be investigating that as a hate crime or something just like the idiots in Vancouver with the tire skid marks on an LGBT crosswalk.


85 posted on 07/09/2020 3:22:03 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Bommer
Time to get a caravan of 25 cars and do some serious burn outs and donuts!

Maybe get Bubba Wallace involved...it would be the only burnout he will ever do.

86 posted on 07/09/2020 3:24:45 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Nothing dies harder than a lie that people want to believe)
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To: Regulator
Exposing Black Lives Matter's ties to convicted domestic terrorist
87 posted on 07/09/2020 3:25:03 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: Rennes Templar

I would think it is illegal for a government entity to pay government employees to make a political statement of any kind.


88 posted on 07/09/2020 3:28:46 PM PDT by Bitman
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To: JennysCool

We are losing the country. And no one is fighting back


89 posted on 07/09/2020 3:29:45 PM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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To: redgolum

They don’t want their houses and businesses burned down....


90 posted on 07/09/2020 3:30:45 PM PDT by caww
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To: Rennes Templar

What a bunch of vandals, malcontents and losers.


91 posted on 07/09/2020 3:36:48 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: butlerweave
and if someone other than a Dem does it they get arrested ,LOL

Like that couple that painted over the black lives matter on the street.

92 posted on 07/09/2020 3:52:50 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Rennes Templar

Who built this city, who built this nation, and never got the acknowledgement, the recognition...”

Yeah, DeBlasio? Well what have they built lately? And if they are so all fired talented why don’t they start building a world all their own?

The crying, complaining, finger pointing, excuse making and bitching is getting tiresome.


93 posted on 07/09/2020 3:53:42 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Rennes Templar

Good! They should Erect a statute.


94 posted on 07/09/2020 3:55:10 PM PDT by sport
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To: Rennes Templar

LOL! It is yellow because they COULDN’T paint it white because they are the kind of idiots who would do this sort of moronic thing in the first place...


95 posted on 07/09/2020 4:01:04 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Rennes Templar

100 dollars to the first person to take their street legal drag car and run a long black strip right down the center of the lettering.


96 posted on 07/09/2020 4:14:28 PM PDT by TermLimits4All (A next on the agenda, reelection of DJT.)
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To: redgolum

We lost these parts of the country a long time ago; they’re just making it official. My working class town and others around Newark NJ still have our Columbus statues, and nobody is painting BLM nonsense anywhere, There is some virtue-signaling a bit to the west (wealthier area), but I suspect that is to divert attention from the fact that they don’t allow black people in their towns.


97 posted on 07/09/2020 6:50:33 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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