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Banksy makes a very powerful point and creates a very powerful image on BLM
Black people cannot fix racism. Society asks them all of the time to adjust their behaviours as if racists are ever going to say well you have changed enough to satisfy me so I am not going to be racist anymore... this is a white problem and until white people (particularity those with power and privilege) are persuaded that it is their responsibility to be better then change will be so much harder. I think that the death of George Floyd and the protests that have followed will be persuading to many, fingers crossed.
Along with this commentary...
I particular love that the stars in the flag are now tweets -cause Twitler is really trying to set America on fire one tweet at a time, because he is that big of a wanker.
ancianita
(35,926 posts)The Black Lives Matter spread across the capitol seems like a Banksy thing, in its way.
Have you seen the 10 year-old Exit Through the Gift Shop?
Robert Del Naja (a.k.a. 3D), frontman of the trip hop band Massive Attack. Del Naja had been a graffiti artist during the 1980s prior to forming the band and had previously been identified as a personal friend of Banksy.[24][25][26] Yet the study of the two artists' lives suggests that this is not likely.[27]
Jamie Hewlett, English comic book artist and designer best known for the comic Tank Girl and the virtual band Gorillaz. Joanna Brooks, Banksy's publicist, denied this claim.[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
marble falls
(56,996 posts)hkp11
(275 posts)American Son on Netflix to see how African Americans feel. Racists are the problem and have been. Drumpf's presidential rise into prez allowed the racists to come out of the shadow and freely display it.
Now we have the opposite - non-racists coming out and protesting and showing that black lives do matter - this is our free display even in a pandemic!
BComplex
(8,017 posts)Wow. Just wow.