Comments on: Mural of the Day http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2008/11/mural-of-the-day-43/ Welcome to the beautiful life Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:32:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: dcguy http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2008/11/mural-of-the-day-43/#comment-129246 dcguy Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:15:17 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=4589#comment-129246 sometimes people can represent people, not just people that look like them. the mural depicts nice weather and autumn. is this intended to suggest that rain and springtime do not exist? Diversity is great. but does that always have to be the focus? sometimes people can represent people, not just people that look like them.

the mural depicts nice weather and autumn. is this intended to suggest that rain and springtime do not exist?

Diversity is great. but does that always have to be the focus?

]]> By: Tim http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2008/11/mural-of-the-day-43/#comment-129245 Tim Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:17:22 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=4589#comment-129245 I think its beautiful as is, politics aside! Its art! I think its beautiful as is, politics aside! Its art!

]]> By: IMGoph http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2008/11/mural-of-the-day-43/#comment-129244 IMGoph Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:37:27 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=4589#comment-129244 amen, <b>neener</b>. well written. in the end, everyone needs to get over the whole "my group was here before your group" bit, so we can all focus on moving forward together. amen, neener. well written. in the end, everyone needs to get over the whole “my group was here before your group” bit, so we can all focus on moving forward together.

]]> By: hipchickindc http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2008/11/mural-of-the-day-43/#comment-129243 hipchickindc Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:34:38 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=4589#comment-129243 The artist is Garin Baker. He is not a DC area artist, but his work is beautiful: http://www.carriageart.com/murals_show.php?client=Turkey_Thicket The artist is Garin Baker. He is not a DC area artist, but his work is beautiful: http://www.carriageart.com/murals_show.php?client=Turkey_Thicket

]]> By: Neener http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2008/11/mural-of-the-day-43/#comment-129242 Neener Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:30:58 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=4589#comment-129242 NAB, after a while the black people telling me the neighborhood I've lived in for 15 years and the neighborhood that a friend of mine from college lived in 25 years ago and a neighborhood that was whites only up until 1948 is a "Black Neighborhood" or "Chocolate City" gets downright offensive. Where I live has been, consistently, multiethnic since the first home sale to an African-American in 1948. LeDroit Park was designed as a Whites Only Gated Community which stayed such until the late depression. That's what the LeDroit Park gate in the mural represents. Everyone I knew at Howard knows this. The city is currently expected to become an ethnic plurality, which is to say that no ethnic group will have a majority, by 2014. It's "ok" that everyone in the photo of this mural is black, but it's not cool. It's not cool as long as kids were listening to a rap song in their car over the weekend that had a refrain that sounded a lot like, "buk buk buk buk, kill that cracker." It's people who are bitter clinging to guns and religion and it doesn't really belong in this city anymore, it doesn't represent the future and it doesn't represent me. I don't want to stop people from making something that makes them happy, but I'm getting a little tired of being hit over the head that for a 20 year period, from 1969 to 1989 there were almost no white people living in the Central Northwest area. Well, before that there were and after 1989 there were and it just has to be ok that there were and are now, we can't go back to segregated living and moving to the suburbs doesn't excite me, but then again, I'm sick of people trying to psychologically force me out. NAB, after a while the black people telling me the neighborhood I’ve lived in for 15 years and the neighborhood that a friend of mine from college lived in 25 years ago and a neighborhood that was whites only up until 1948 is a “Black Neighborhood” or “Chocolate City” gets downright offensive. Where I live has been, consistently, multiethnic since the first home sale to an African-American in 1948.

LeDroit Park was designed as a Whites Only Gated Community which stayed such until the late depression. That’s what the LeDroit Park gate in the mural represents. Everyone I knew at Howard knows this.

The city is currently expected to become an ethnic plurality, which is to say that no ethnic group will have a majority, by 2014.

It’s “ok” that everyone in the photo of this mural is black, but it’s not cool. It’s not cool as long as kids were listening to a rap song in their car over the weekend that had a refrain that sounded a lot like, “buk buk buk buk, kill that cracker.” It’s people who are bitter clinging to guns and religion and it doesn’t really belong in this city anymore, it doesn’t represent the future and it doesn’t represent me. I don’t want to stop people from making something that makes them happy, but I’m getting a little tired of being hit over the head that for a 20 year period, from 1969 to 1989 there were almost no white people living in the Central Northwest area. Well, before that there were and after 1989 there were and it just has to be ok that there were and are now, we can’t go back to segregated living and moving to the suburbs doesn’t excite me, but then again, I’m sick of people trying to psychologically force me out.

]]> By: parkwood person http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2008/11/mural-of-the-day-43/#comment-129241 parkwood person Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:55:05 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=4589#comment-129241 I love it! What a great way to paint your house! I love it! What a great way to paint your house!

]]> By: NAB http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2008/11/mural-of-the-day-43/#comment-129240 NAB Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:39:53 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=4589#comment-129240 Give it a rest. What percentage of, umm, the races not represented in the mural need to live there for the mural to be required to reflect them? 20%? 30%? How can you even make such an arbitrary judgment? Just enjoy the art already. Give it a rest. What percentage of, umm, the races not represented in the mural need to live there for the mural to be required to reflect them? 20%? 30%? How can you even make such an arbitrary judgment? Just enjoy the art already.

]]> By: eric in ledroit http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2008/11/mural-of-the-day-43/#comment-129239 eric in ledroit Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:30:55 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=4589#comment-129239 the mural is being painted this month, it is brand new. unfinished actually at this point. the mural is being painted this month, it is brand new. unfinished actually at this point.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2008/11/mural-of-the-day-43/#comment-129238 Anonymous Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:22:06 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=4589#comment-129238 beautiful... who is the artist? beautiful… who is the artist?

]]> By: Kalia http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2008/11/mural-of-the-day-43/#comment-129237 Kalia Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:03:51 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=4589#comment-129237 It is beautiful! It is beautiful!

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