Community mural taking shape in Duluth Hillside park
July 28, 2011 at 1:35 pm in Duluth News Tribune
The “Unity in Community” mural project combines the work of five local artists and anyone who wants to pick up a paintbrush and add a bit of color. Continue Reading
Teaching kids graffit, okay?
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That was my thought exactly. Yes lets trash-up the neighborhood so those from the metro (you know which ones I mean) areas feel right at home.
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If your goal is “bring the community together” why would you put 666 right in the middle of the wall? How about a little sensitivity. Please?
And you could argue this point but don’t numerals at least violate the spirit of the rule that no words are allowed?
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Now we can rally start to look like south Chicago. Throw some gang signs up on that jammy, boi!
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I see an Islamic Crescent and an Egyptian Ankh. No Sign of David or Cross.
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>”The “Unity in Community” mural ”
OH! I see it already has a name. I was gonna suggest “Eye-Sore”.
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I see no comments allowed on the successor story. Sad we can’t discuss issues of cultural sensitivity.
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It sure seems ironic that when the lakewalk got vandalized it was a terrible crime. I guess all you got to do is call it “art” to make it okay. I wonder where the”artists” will be next.
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>”wonder where the”artists” will be next.”
Rail yard, tagging box cars.
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Merv, I have nothing against a nice mural, but what you have here is graffiti.
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Very close minded of you, quagmire. That must be what happens after you enter your late-50s.
Quamire, born 1951
Ulysses, born 1952
David Anderson, born 1954
Obamanation aka Fast and Furious aka Gun Runner Guy, born 1952
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Merv, so does this mean you would want the same picture on your house, car,etc. People keep saying it’s okay to paint walls are only asking for trouble. By the way I may have to eat gruel everyday (toothless),but I’m not ready for the home yet. You young whipper-snapper you.
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Merv Furgler, born 1988. It is all a difference in our baselines (the time at which we began to be aware of the environment in which we were growing up).
My point is you are young and you never knew Duluth during its’ “Golden Era”. The immediate post-war era in Duluth was a vibrant thriving time for both the city and the residents. There were jobs, if you wanted one. Families could be supported by a one paycheck blue-collar job. Railroads, shipping, manufacturing and retail were booming. Your baseline considering that you were born in 1988 would be well after Duluth lost its’ momentum and much of its’ well paying blue-collor jobs. You know Duluth only after Duluths deterioration had happened. You don’t know any better and those of us who know better don’t fault you. You know what you have seen but you havn’t seen or experienced the era that us old f*rts have. It’s all a point of reference and past experience, that’s all.
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Indeed, I would have loved to see Duluth in it’s heyday. It seemed the like entire country was bustling after WWII. I bet it felt much more comfortable to be a young adult in those days.
The more I research recent American history, however, it seems like there was a certain point where everything started going in the wrong direction. It seemed to be somewhere between the early 1970s and 1980. That point marked the end of the human rights movement, local agriculture, and industrial manufacturing, and marked the beginning of globalization, stagnant or declining wages, agribusiness, and the consumer society we live in today. Today, income inequality in the U.S. is just as bad as it was in the 1910s, when workers were paid piss wages to risk their lives, just to get by.
Hopefully, in future debates, we can acknowledge our difference in perspectives. You became an adult while the economy was booming and there was no reason to question the capitalist system, since everyone seemed to be doing well. Myself, on the other hand, am becoming an adult in a world where none of my goods are made in this country, I’m saddled with ridiculous student loan debt, nobody is hiring, everybody’s firing, and there’s every reason in the world to question the current capitalist status-quo.
Let us both use these perspectives to develop pragmatic solutions to real problems, instead of falling prey to the 2-party political trap. It would be nice to debate you gentlemen in person some day.
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Merv, through your comment you are showing the beginning of true wisdom. I am happy to see you understand our differences and am proud of you for aknowleging them. It is true my generation had a better life and more possibilities than the current one but in looking arround I see too many young people basically “throwing in the towel” and settling for lower expectations. This is just wrong. Nobody should give in to tough circumstances and accept a lower standard of living as the norm. You are right on as far as a fundimental shift in the world economy in the 70′s and 80′s and it is in small part to corporate greed but in much larger part due to STOCKHOLDERS greed. If companies don’t give a proper rate of return to stockholders, the stockholders will sell (causing the remaing company stocks to loose value) and re-invest in companies that promise a better rate of return. Consumers want more and more (as compared to rather spartan materialism of the 50′s and 60″s) so companies farm out work to countries that pay basically slave wages to get prices lower and lower. Just one example…my first VCR cost me over $600 in 1978 but look what you can pay for now. Materialistic consumers have forced companies to do such drastic measures. “We have met the enemy and he is us”.
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“People only see what they’re prepared to see” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Give it time, It is a work in process. The harsh comments in this thread are an alarming reflection of this paper. Sad..
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