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 BLM fist is a Communist symbol.
She’s a Useful Idiot.
Well, she’s a cute little woke thing. That’s for sure.
Note to City Manager: Good way to pi** off everyone!
About as bad as someone painting Ku Klux Klan symbolism.
There shouldn’t be any murals on the GSP
The black fist just stands for marxist black supremacy, the other colors just plain marxist/commies.
This symbol is just okie dokie with the perpetually aggreived SJW genre, but don't you dare make an OK thumb/forefinger symbol either with your hands or drawn ya filthy racists.
“During the time that I worked on it, not a single person came up to me to communicate their feelings,” she insisted.
And risk a confrontation?
Replacement American adorning structure built by Americans with anti-American hate...
"Black Lives Matter"-style fist, my arse!
It's the same fist that Erich Honecker always raised during the televised May Day parades, as the East German tanks rolled by!
Revolting!
Regards,
“I’m confused as to why it offended anyone,” she told the local site.”
That’s because you are insensitive.
Person from constantly offended group confused about why people get offended. It doesn’t matter why, offensive is offensive. ‘Hoist on your own petard’, go look it up.
And by the way, paint that crud on buildings owned by you or BLM, not in public-owned places. You have no respect for other people.
“I’m confused as to why it offended anyone,”
We said the same thing many times, sweetheart.
This reminds me of the Rockefeller family who during the Depression who funded and built Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. They hired one Diego Rivera, a Mexican communist, to draw a mural covering the walls of the central hall and ignored Rivera’s hatred for America and Americans. At the unveiling, they were stunned to see that the Red Rivera had drawn scenes of oppression of American workers, with the oppressors looking strikingly like leading members of the Rockefeller family. The mural was immediately covered up and I believe, ultimately, destroyed.
wonder why the manager let her dp it?
watch the movie Frida
Paint it white. That should go over well.
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