Posts by RWGifford1961@www.minds.com
 (DIR) Post #B4pU1XlNovOYINh2uG by RWGifford1961@www.minds.com
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       Guess she was the wrong color to memorialized........................................................................................................A 23 year old Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska was brutally stabbed to death on a Charlotte NC light rail train in 2025. A private nonprofit with funding ties to Elon Musk commissioned a simple memorial mural of her face on the exterior wall of The Dark Lady a downtown Providence LGBTQ plus nightclub as part of a national project.The mural was nearly finished on private property.Then the outrage started. Public criticism poured in. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley a Democrat publicly demanded its removal calling the project misguided and divisive. The owners caved and are now painting over it.Here is the hypocrisy that should shock every Rhode Islander.In 2020 and 2021 multiple large George Floyd and Black Lives Matter murals went up all over Providence on private storefronts and public streets. Then Mayor Jorge Elorza a Democrat personally participated in the unveilings the city spent taxpayer money and Democratic leaders celebrated them as art and healing. Not a single government official complained or called for them to be removed.But a portrait of an innocent murder victim? Suddenly it is divisive and must be erased.Same state. Same Creative Capital. Same private property rules except this time the victim does not fit the approved political narrative.This is not about art. It is about selective outrage and two tiered standards for free expression. If we truly believe in honoring victims and protecting private property rights the standard must apply equally or it applies to no one.What do you think Rhode Island? Should a memorial mural on private property be censored because politicians do not like who funded it or who the victim was?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5KCamoa4khjq0bOIi by RWGifford1961@www.minds.com
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       this is what a  proper america would look like.. not gangbangers controlling the parks/streets