There are people who need help, and you clearly have the money to help them, but you’re giving it to people who are either not invested in the community, they’re incompetent at their jobs, or they just don’t have the same interests in preserving life that we as a people – the public – do.”Ĭivil unrest has spread across the globe since George Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin, a police officer who knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25. I ride to my studio on Statesville Avenue every day, and I see tent cities that are being erected. “There’s no reason why 40% of the city’s budget is going toward policing when just this morning when I came out here, I see homeless people sleeping on the streets. I need them to actually put their money where their mouth is and not only support artists and creatives, but support the residents here,” Wesley said Tuesday. “While I appreciate Charlotte letting us come out here and do this, I love the gesture. While a collaboration between the city of Charlotte, BLKMRKTCLT, Charlotte is Creative and Brand the Moth transformed South Tryon Street’s pavement between 3rd and 4th streets as a gesture of unity, it has to be followed by action to address systemic racial disparities.Įach letter represents an individual mural curated by Dammit Wesley, co-owner of BLKMRKTCLT, a gallery and studio space at Camp North End. “It’s right to do.”īlack Charlotte needs more than a block-long mural reading “Black Lives Matter.” “The support is awesome,” artist Jason Woodberry said. Charlotte-based artists paint in a sketch of Black Lives Matter Tuesday along Tryon Street in Center City.
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