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@dollemore.com discusses recent reporting regarding #SouthCarolina Congresswoman #NancyMace, and her efforts to RENAME the former #BlackLivesMatterPlaza in #WashingtonDC, to honor bigot #CHARLIEKIRK instead. Originally dedicated in 2020 following #GeorgeFloyd 's murder. youtu.be/FXFATovvoyU?...
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It started with this...
March 2025, ‘More than brick and mortar:' DC begins removing ‘Black Lives Matter’ plaza near the White House
By ASHRAF KHALIL and JACQUELYN MARTIN
Updated 5:57 PM EDT, March 10, 2025WASHINGTON (AP) — "Starlette Thomas remembers coming down almost daily to the intersection of 16th and H streets, to protest police brutality and systemic racial iniquities during the summer of 2020.
"On Monday, the 45-year old Bowie, Maryland resident returned to the site of those protests to mourn the end of Black Lives Matter Plaza.
" 'I needed to be here today. I can’t just let this go away,' Thomas said, as jackhammers began tearing into the giant yellow letters in the street. Thomas discretely secured a chunk of pavement and said holding it made her feel conflicted.
" 'To walk away with a piece of that, it means it’s not gone,' she said. 'It’s more than brick and mortar.'
"Crews started work Monday to remove the large yellow '#BlackLivesMatter' painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C. Mayor #MurielBowser announced the change last week in response to pressure from Republicans in Congress. The work is expected to take about six weeks and the words will be replaced by an unspecified set of city-sponsored murals.
"The painting of those words was an act of government-sponsored defiance during President Donald Trump’s first term. The removal amounts to a public acknowledgement of just how vulnerable the District of Columbia is now that Trump is back in the White House and Republicans control both houses of Congress.
"Bowser, a Democrat, ordered the painting and renamed the intersection #BlackLivesMatterPlaza in June 2020. It came after days of chaotic protests at that location following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer; Bowser had clashed with #Trump over her handling of the protests.
"But now Bowser has little power to fend off encroachments on D.C.'s limited autonomy. Bowser said last week on X that, 'The mural inspired millions of people and helped our city through a painful period, but now we can’t afford to be distracted by meaningless congressional interference. The devastating impacts of the federal job cuts must be our number one concern.' "
#WashingtonDC #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#FascismInTheUSA #USPol #FloridaPol #TrumpIsAFascist #TrumpIsABully #Racism #ErasingHistory -
This is what happens when you give #Fascists an inch!!!
"Unlike the governors of states that enjoy congressional representation, the mayor of a city without any voice in Congress does not have much leverage with a transactional President. But, #MayorBowser has signaled willingness to play a little ball with Trump this time around, saying in the conference that the city has 'bigger fish to fry' than the #BlackLivesMatter mural outside the White House, which she has signaled she will paint over. Bowser also ordered a #homeless encampment cleared Thursday after #Trump complained about such places online and she had a phone call with the administration. In what appears to be compensation for such tactical retreats, Trump appears to have scaled back plans for an executive order that would take aim at DC."
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/03/07/did-muriel-bowser-influence-trumps-decision-to-take-dc-properties-off-the-market/
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Boo hiss! #DC's #BlackLivesMatter mural will be erased. Look back at the iconic street painting
March 8, 2025
"#WashingtonDC's iconic 'Black Lives Matter' street mural, which has served as a powerful symbol of #activism and a gathering place for #joy and #resistance, will soon be gone."The decision to remove the enormous mural near the #WhiteHouse comes after a U.S. Rep. #AndrewClyde, R-#Georgia, introduced legislation earlier this week that gave D.C. an ultimatum: either paint over the slogan or risk losing federal funding. The bill also called for the area in downtown D.C. to be re-named from #BlackLivesMatterPlaza to Liberty Plaza."
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/08/nx-s1-5321872/dc-black-lives-matter-street-mural-history?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#USPol #ErasingHistory #BLM #StreetArt #BlackHistory #Racism #Censorship #FascistBlackmail #Fascism #BlackHistoryIsUSHistory #FederalFunding #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Racism