Thursday, June 4

Aw, how cute!

There's an effort underway in Madison, Wisconsin, to clean up after the urban rioting of recent days, to make pretty the destruction, and paint a happy face on the resulting violence over the death of a black man in police custody.

They would have volunteered to prettify Emmett Till, I think, offering to make up his face nice before opening that casket for the public to see...

Same thing with the "pretty" paintings on the smashed Madison storefronts that once held glass and storekeepers' dreams...  Why are you hiding the anger that caused that?

Would it have been appropriate, do you think? --
To "clean up" and paint over teh kristallnacht damage?
To hide it under pretty feminine scenes, and pretend the underlying damage doesn't really exist?

If it's okay to dismiss and simplify the pain of the black community with childish paintings on their newfound public plywood canvases, why didn't somebody just sweep up all that glass and tell the Jews that something beautiful -- the paintings! -- would come of this?

Where the black art at? You privileged whites are doing it again, already....!
You have not learned a god-damned thing, it seems.  You're proud of your work here?

Imagine if the President Trump is re-elected, or the officers are acquitted... or another black is killed on camera.

Are you still going to sweep up, and smile and prettify and pretend that nothing much happened in the nation in recent days that can't be easily "fixed" with some boards and a few coats of paint?

Think, bunnies, think!
Leave the damage alone to be viewed.
You're a big part of the problem here, your narrative paintings that were inside you and had nothing at all to do with George Floyd's death, admit it.  You are USING him, again as a black man to meet your own selfish "beauty" needs to make you feel better about your almost-all-white communities and how your children automatically inherit your privileged lifestyles, through no better efforts of their own...

Just someone to prettify their worlds and ignore what happens to others in other worlds where whites, and blacks and Hispanics and other ethnic newcomers, don't get to paint over the destruction and pretend it away.

Ask yourself why Mrs. Till did not shield the public from what was done to her son's face?  Let the Madison storefronts stand unprettified too.

"See, this is what you made them do!  Your white privilege created this."

At least think about your lifestyles, before you paint over the destruction and "clean it all up"?
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6C11DEEC-347F-4037-9903-F1B23198E8A3_1_201_a | by Ann Althouse
Not everybody is going along with the "cover it up, beautify it" narrative seizure in downtown Madison, Wisconsin.     The black text "I Can't Breathe" was added on later..
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*Don't worry, ladies!  I's safe to come out, as Madson has some newly depuized bike cops to protect you, in case some of the errant overspray from the artists' cans covering up the destruction done over the recent death of an unarmed black man puts you at risk...  This one tells me:  any nonsense, he's taking you ... down! Lol..