Ted Rall cartoon: Is MOCA to blame for a new wave of graffiti in downtown L.A.?
Ted Rall / For the Times
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Posted by: Boycott MOCA | April 26, 2011 at 08:23 PM
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Posted by: Ome-Coatl | April 26, 2011 at 11:14 PM
For the Liberal (white) MOCA types, graffiti is "cool" and "edgy"... an intellectual flirtation they get to dispose of when they get bored of it. But for the rest of us, graffiti announces the presence of neighborhood terrorists, murderers, drug dealers, and a thug mentality that turns innocent children into monsters.
For the rest of us, graffiti culture is anything but "art"... unless you want to wax poetic about the bloodstained streets in our neighborhoods.
Posted by: Ome-Coatl | April 26, 2011 at 11:21 PM
When I lived in France there was a graffiti artist there named "Boxer." At least, that's the word he spray-painted all over Paris -- Boxer. On the Pont-Neuf. At les Invalides. On the Arc de Triomphe. Well, one day he came home to find his apartment tagged with about 20 pounds of Krylon. His Bose speakers, his cat, his phone, his clothing, his sheets.....Through tears of rage, he called 911 and blubbered, mostly about the Bose speakers, as I recall. Priceless. the press suggested the police had done it. A police spokesman quoted Boxer and asked rhetorically, "Well, whoever is responsible, is it not the same freedom of expression that Boxer himself espouses? It's all good, n'est pas?"
Posted by: Joe Poe | April 27, 2011 at 08:41 AM
I agree --For the Liberal (white) MOCA types, graffiti is "cool" and "edgy"... an intellectual flirtation they get to dispose of when they get bored of it.
But for the rest of us, graffiti announces the presence of neighborhood terrorists, murderers, drug dealers, and a thug mentality that turns innocent children into monsters.
For the rest of us, graffiti culture is anything but "art"... unless you want to wax poetic about the bloodstained streets in our neighborhoods.
Turning neighborhoods into Gettos - Ignorant!
Posted by: james | May 23, 2011 at 10:32 AM