The Black Lives Matter Mural in the historic Greenwood District was vandalized Sunday.
A line of blue paint spilled across the mural that some members of the community were trying to make permanent.
To activists and City Council Member Vanessa Hall Harper, the blue line marking through the mural is as symbolic as the meaning of the mural itself.
Several activists gathered on Greenwood to discuss how to undo the blue splattered line.
Vanessa Hall-Harper said, “this speaks directly to the issue at hand, black lives not mattering, they didn’t matter nearly 100 years ago clearly and we are still grappling with and struggling with this today”
While the mural is temporary, the message behind it holds a permanent meaning for those who support it.
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Members of the community showed up to clean the blue from the mural and repaint the portion that was vandalized.
Amir Graves came out to help fix the mural says, “I think its great the community came down to rectify the problem itself”
We spoke with Namiyah who also came out to help fix the mural, she tells us "you just can’t go and put blue over someones hard work that someone else created to tell you that your culture matters and your skin matters some white people just wanted us to know that the color of their skin and our skin matters to them and you"
Hall-Harper tells us, “we’re requesting a permanent permit for this mural and we are in the process of doing that now under the authority of the historic greenwood district main street program”
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