And yet if I were braver and lived in Manchester I'd want to deface it too. Of course it matters what kind of person he was. There is a huge difference between recognising and acknowledging his death was unlawful and being so upsucky to the black community that you have to ignore his criminal doings and paint him on a wall to fawn over.
It shouldn’t even be there to be defaced. The incident is an American propaganda fest. Poor me, bend the knee.
We have enough defaced statues of our own to worry about. I couldn’t care less about that career criminals visage.
Out of interest roy would you approve of the mural being defaced with a racist slur? I don't know if that happened this time but it apparently happened the last time it was defaced. Just wanted to know if you were keen on that.
I'm not quite sure what it could have been defaced with that wouldn't be considered a racist slur? Because he was black any graffiti would be seen a racist by some surely.
What would you have written on it Prudie if you were feeling "brave" as you put it? Imagine yourself standing there in the dead of night with your hood pulled up... what would you want to write on it? Go mad.
as was said we have enough outrages here, like the manchester bombing for example, the face of that little girl is more poignant
and not some career criminal death...
I'm sure there are often questions to be raised about street art, wouldn't it be great if this young man and his friends had tried approaching Akse P19 and asking some of those questions rather than descending to vandalism.
You're perfectly allowed to have that view Roy and you're clearly not alone, a dialogue with the artist where you may even ask him to get it removed would be infinitely better than defacing it and drawing more attention to it surely.
There's no chance of having it removed. Idiots like Cllr Jon-Connor Lyons (and untitled) want to shout racist at anyone who disagrees with the mural...just read the man's twitter feed.
If anyone has ever bothered to listen to the speeches at Floyd George's funeral they would think he is on par with MLK.
I will never be kowtowed by the likes of untitled. Floyd was scum not a martyr.