[Aloha1]

Originally Posted by blueash

One person's defaced might be another person's enhanced. The message of the original art was that Black Lives Matter, the message of the enhancements was that words are not enough they need to be matched by changes in the policing of the community.

BLM is a Marxist/Communist movement. Read it's manifesto before you hold it up as a paragon of virtue. Do blacks deserve to be treated as any other American? Of course, but BLM has hijacked the proper outrage and channeled it into an insurgency against the duly elected government.

[waynehal55]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

It looks more to me like a bunch of kids who didn't ever get to learn civics in school, decided it'd be a "funny prank" to deface a serious message. The handwriting is what gives it away - that's not the writing of a graffiti artist, it's the writing of a 14-year-old brat.

You are waaaaaay to kind.

[fastboat]

Leave it just as is. Another dollar spent to fix it is dumbest thing that could be done. Let it live on as BLM's history and it's destructive nature.

[DeanFL]

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Listening to a local Talk News radio this am, topic - the BLM street in ORL.

"WHY WASN'T 24X7 GUARDS IN PLACE TO PROTECT THIS - SINCE EVERYONE KNEW IT WOULD BE DEFACED"?

Last night 2 ORL LEO officers were there to "guard" against grafitti etc. ????
So now ORL taxpayers are on the hook for this too? all I can say is OMG, glad we don't live there.

[Bay Kid]

The Richmond VA leadership stops anyone that tries to clean the profanities off Monument Ave. If they want to paint F___ on anything that is fine. Richmond looks like a filthy 3rd world country. And they are proud?

[TexaninVA]

Originally Posted by blueash

One person's defaced might be another person's enhanced. The message of the original art was that Black Lives Matter, the message of the enhancements was that words are not enough they need to be matched by changes in the policing of the community.

Let’s start by removing all police from all minority neighborhoods and then see how that works out ...

[TexaninVA]

Originally Posted by Aloha1

BLM is a Marxist/Communist movement. Read it's manifesto before you hold it up as a paragon of virtue. Do blacks deserve to be treated as any other American? Of course, but BLM has hijacked the proper outrage and channeled it into an insurgency against the duly elected government.

Good point. It's amazing, and disturbing, about how few people really know anything about what BLM actually stands for and advocates. It is simply ascribed to be good & virtuous by24x7 media coverage so that's what most people run with.

[Bay Kid]

Originally Posted by TexaninVA

Good point. It's amazing, and disturbing, about how few people really know anything about what BLM actually stands for and advocates. It is simply ascribed to be good & virtuous by24x7 media coverage so that's what most people run with.

So true. Just follow where all the money goes.

[Aloha1]

Originally Posted by TexaninVA

Good point. It's amazing, and disturbing, about how few people really know anything about what BLM actually stands for and advocates. It is simply ascribed to be good & virtuous by24x7 media coverage so that's what most people run with.

"Carthaginem Delenda Est". Love your tag.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Aloha1

"Carthaginem Delenda Est". Love your tag.

Didnt work out to well for Carthage. Went downhill after Hannibal and his elephants lost their war.

[TexaninVA]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Didnt work out to well for Carthage. Went downhill after Hannibal and his elephants lost their war.

Given that the phrase was uttered by the Roman Cato the Elder (aka Censor) it worked out perfectly. That's really the point.

[JGVillages]

Since these are public streets paid for and maintained by the taxpayers how about a referendum asking if “ALL LIVES MATTER” could replace the racist “BLACK LIVES (only) MATTER. Majority rules?