{"id":8063,"date":"2017-01-19T13:29:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=8063"},"modified":"2017-01-20T14:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:24:56","slug":"peace-love-and-the-american-mosaic-anti-white-graffiti-in-gentrifying-la-neighborhood-sparks-hate-crime-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/19\/peace-love-and-the-american-mosaic-anti-white-graffiti-in-gentrifying-la-neighborhood-sparks-hate-crime-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace, Love and the American mosaic! ‘Anti-white’ graffiti in gentrifying LA neighborhood sparks hate crime debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Anti-white’ graffiti in gentrifying LA neighborhood sparks hate crime debate<\/strong>
\nFriday 4 November 2016<\/p>\n

Police in Los Angeles are investigating the vandalism of art galleries in a Latino neighbourhood, including the spray-painted message \u201cfuck white art\u201d, as possible hate crimes.<\/p>\n

Three galleries were targeted last month amid rising concern in Boyle Heights that an influx of galleries heralds gentrification.<\/p>\n

A coalition of community leaders and leftwing militants has mobilised over the past year to protest, confront and in some cases intimidate galleries whom they fear will pave the way for development that will push out residents and erase a cradle of Chicano identity.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe don\u2019t know who actually did [the vandalism], but because it actually made a reference to anti-white art or anti-white, it\u2019s basically saying that it\u2019s a hate crime based on that,\u201d detective John Parra of the LAPD\u2019s Hollenbeck station told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Police recently met gallery owners and requested advance notice of future exhibitions so that police could consider additional patrols, he said. The vandalism incidents remain under investigation.<\/p>\n

Boyle Heights is a largely low-income neighbourhood which sits across the LA river from downtown, a formerly depressed zone which is being transformed by new museums, galleries, loft apartments and skyscrapers.<\/p>\n

Over the past year activists, some with masks, others with megaphones, have confronted realtors and tour groups, picketed galleries and used a brass band blowing with all its might to sabotage an open air-opera.<\/p>\n

Activists scorned the notion that tagging galleries represented a hate crime. \u201cThe walls in my neigbourhood are the people\u2019s newspaper. That\u2019s people expressing themselves,\u201d says Xochitl Palomera of the advocacy group Coraz\u00f3n Del Pueblo. \u201cYou\u2019re talking about someone spray-painting a wall with truth. Whoever wrote that is hurting and is angry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Xochitl Palomera: \u2018We want these galleries out.\u2019
\nThe dozen or so galleries that have crossed the river were almost all white-owned and were opening the floodgates to economic forces which could drown the culture of Boyle Heights, said Palomera.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe want these galleries out. They are going to be destructive to the things that we have been creating.\u201d She said there was no such thing as reverse racism. \u201cBecause you know what, we\u2019ve been experiencing oppression for hundreds of years. We\u2019re not going to take this sitting down.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the true hate crime was the LAPD\u2019s killing of Jesse Romero, a 14-year-old boy, in August. Police said he was tagging gang-type graffiti and may have fired a gun when confronted by officers. Romero\u2019s family disputes that and called the killing excessive force.<\/p>\n

Ruben, an activist with Serve the People LA (STPLA), a Maoist offshoot, said \u201crighteous anger\u201d over the risk of displacement fueled the graffiti. \u201cWe didn\u2019t do it and don\u2019t know who did it, but we celebrate it.\u201d… READ MORE HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The Guardian   ‘Anti-white’ graffiti in gentrifying LA neighborhood sparks hate crime debate Friday 4 November 2016 Police in Los Angeles are investigating the vandalism of art galleries in a Latino neighbourhood, including the spray-painted message \u201cfuck white art\u201d, as possible hate crimes. Three galleries were targeted last month amid rising concern in Boyle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8089,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions\/8089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}