The construction work started in the American capital Washington to remove the famous “Black Lives Matter” art installation. While employees voted on Monday (local time) with compressed air hammers of the enormous yellow letters of the street, countless spectators gathered.
“I had to be here to experience that,” explains Starlette Thomas, who was part of the George Floyd protests in 2020. To see how it was destroyed in this way, was very hurtful. Giving away with one piece means that it is not gone. It is more than brick and mortar.
The letters “Black Lives Matter” (The Life of Blacks) has been attached to Washington since June 2020. After the national protests against racism and police violence, he was interpreted after the death of Afro -amerikan George Floyd in a brutal police operation in Minneapolis. In the United States, unarmed black victims of fatal police are repeatedly. Floyd’s death also had a new consciousness of the history of slavery and its effects.
Two African -American women told the AFP that they last watched the famous letters. They made no secret of their dismay about his distance. “What is the next step?” Asked 57-year-old Tajuana McCallister. With a view to US President Donald Trump, she said, “Of course he doesn’t care about black history.”
Protesters regularly gathered in the protests at the time near the White House. During his first term of office, Trump openly threatened to use the army against demonstrators.
Print and weight of the current state power
Since the return of Trump to the White House, the letters have been opened to Republicans in the congress. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced his distance last week – and apparently leaned forward to political pressure. The Democrat strives for good cooperation with Trump and the congress, especially in the light of the Republican requirements for a complete cancellation of the extensive right of self -administrator in the liberal city. Washington is also massively affected by the personnel reduction among the federal authorities.
“We have more important things to do than arguing about something that was very important to us and history,” Bowser said for reporters last week. “But now we focus on ensuring that our residents and our economy survive.”
“Too much crime, too much graffiti”
At the end of February, Trump had enormously criticized the browser and announced that the federal government he led to control the capital. The city council under Bowser would not do its work well – “Too much crime, too many graffiti, too many tents on the lawn,” he said with a view to the homeless. In the presidential election in November, the right -wing populist had increased in addition to winning many other groups of voters. However, the government recently made countless cuts in programs for diversity, equality and inclusion – abbreviated as a dei – in English – which in the past of Trump was demonized as discrimination against white people.
Source: Krone
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