Posted on 03/10/2025 11:44:53 PM PDT by Morgana
Construction crews descended on Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C. Monday to erase a bright yellow mural that has been across from the White House since 2020.
The name of the movement was spelled out on the road in giant 35-foot tall letters following the death of George Floyd.
It is just steps from the White House and was a pointed push back against police brutality.
However, in recent weeks a GOP proposal in Congress threatened to pull funding from Washington's local government unless the plaza is renamed and the phrase 'Black Lives Matter' removed from the street.
Roughly a dozen construction workers equipped with pick axes, jackhammers and John Deere construction vehicles were seen smashing, slashing and hacking away parts of the instillation on Monday morning.
'First, they attacked critical race theory. Then, they banned books. Then DEI, Now they're erasing Black Lives Matter Plaza,' the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation wrote in a statement.
'Big mistake. You can't erase truth. Republicans hate that they have to walk past it. Hate that it reminds them of our power,' the group wrote.
But for those who have viewed the plaza more as a performative gesture than an actual counter to police violence, the demolition is seen as a victory.
'The Black Lives Matter Plaza is being demolished! Because ALL lives matter,' one X user posted Monday morning.
'Demolition crews move in on BLM Plaza in downtown DC— directly in front of the White House,' conservative commentator Danny De Urbina wrote. 'We will destroy your pagan temples.'
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Bee-autiful!
So now it’s “Burn, Loot, and Murder plaza?”
I can do malicious compliance too!
JON MICHAEL RAASCH
“Look mom a shitbird. Huh? A journalist? I’m sorry mom, it still looks like a shitbird to me. “
Make America Clean Again
To whom do those black lives matter?
You can’t erase the truth...that’s exactly what the left has been doing for years.
Hey! I’m rejoicing! And I didn’t even know there was such a thing! BLM. An idiotic concept founded by idiots.
Can we assume this statement was issued from one of the many mansions the crooks bought with money that was suppose to go to the black community?
Article:
“the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation”
IRS audit—lets get moving here.
DOGE—find them in the federal spending database and lets get them defunded now.
“The name of the movement...”
I don’t know about the rest of you but I flush my movements. I don’t name them.
My favorite easy fix for “black lives matter” graffiti. Add an “O” in front of “lives”.
This is how it's done. Defund the racist, communist rats.
It wasn’t just painted letters. The lefty’s, eager to promote a grifting terrorist organization, actually made the letters out of poured concrete and wrapped a brick road around the letters. It’s major surgery to remove. And greatly necessary.
Idiots that scored millions.
Thank goodness! Enough of that crap.
I had never before seen an image of the monstrosity.
Kudos to POTUS.
The only black lives that mattered to BLM were those killed by white cops.
Should have turned it into a refuge for street bums. give ‘em a place to get high and then come out to beg/mug some more. Use DOGE funds to do this.
Show everyone in MSM, in capital city, what commie trash policies do. Put up street cams that are open on the WWW.
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