Obstruction of this celebratory artwork is a continuum of a long history of violence against Black women.
. Substantial funding was secured from a few large organizations and smaller donations came from individuals. The owners of the buildings approved of the artwork to grace their walls and October 2021 installation dates were set.Unfortunately, the white male owner of the parking lot adjacent to the building where the text-based artwork was to be painted took issue with the work and aggressively refused to rent spaces that were needed for installation equipment.
Some white men still believe they have a right to determine when and where a Black woman can speak and need to approve of what she says. Physical violence. Financial violence. Psychological violence. As journalist and suffragist Ida B. Wells documented in her 1895 pamphlet, , Black people were lynched for being “saucy” toward white people, which meant that a Black woman asserting herself could be a death sentence.The history of the United States is fraught with examples of white men inflicting violence upon Black women with impunity. From widespread physical abuse during slavery to’s death in 2020 at the hands of police, Black women have experienced their humanity, their very right to exist, be violated.
Almost six decades post-Jim Crow, Black women are still grossly underrepresented in positions of power as
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