{"id":261139,"date":"2020-07-10T04:15:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=261139"},"modified":"2020-07-10T04:15:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:15:07","slug":"black-lives-matter-sign-painted-in-large-yellow-font-now-displayed-outside-trump-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/10\/black-lives-matter-sign-painted-in-large-yellow-font-now-displayed-outside-trump-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Black Lives Matter&#8217; sign painted in large yellow font now displayed outside Trump Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_261156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261156\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Black-Lives-Matter-sign-painted-in-large-yellow-font-seen-outside-Trump-Tower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-261156\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Black-Lives-Matter-sign-painted-in-large-yellow-font-seen-outside-Trump-Tower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Black-Lives-Matter-sign-painted-in-large-yellow-font-seen-outside-Trump-Tower.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Black-Lives-Matter-sign-painted-in-large-yellow-font-seen-outside-Trump-Tower-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Black-Lives-Matter-sign-painted-in-large-yellow-font-seen-outside-Trump-Tower-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Black-Lives-Matter-sign-painted-in-large-yellow-font-seen-outside-Trump-Tower-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our city isn\u2019t just painting the words on Fifth Avenue. We\u2019re committed to the meaning of the message. #BlackLivesMatter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/1281260917880164354\/photo\/1\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCMayor\">@NYCMayor\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The words &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; painted in a large yellow font can now be seen in front of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue on Thursday, a plan which was earlier criticized by U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, along with his wife, Chirlane McCray, and Rev. Al Sharpton, took part in the painting of the &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; sign.<\/p>\n<p>In a video clip shared by New York City government on Twitter, de Blasio belied the previous statement of Trump where the latter said that the plan to paint the sign could &#8216;denigrate&#8217; the luxury of Fifth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not denigrating anything, we are liberating Fifth Avenue,&#8221; he said, drawing cheers and applause from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we say &#8216;Black Lives Matter,&#8217; there is no more American statement, there is no more patriotic statement, because there is no America without Black America,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackLivesMatter<\/a><br \/>That&#39;s a New York value. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OhgUZHtbzU\">pic.twitter.com\/OhgUZHtbzU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; City of New York (@nycgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nycgov\/status\/1281324666536239111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sharing a photo of them executing their plan, de Blasio also said in a tweet that they are not just painting the &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; sign on the street, but they are &#8220;committed to the meaning of the message.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump previously branded the &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; sign as a &#8220;symbol of hate,&#8221; stressing that it will &#8220;further antagonize New York&#8217;s Finest who love New York.&#8221; He also said that the money they will be using to paint the sign should instead be used to fight crime in the city.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio had told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ScdFYTHfIU\">MSNBC<\/a> that he wanted Trump to see the sign because the President has &#8220;never shown respect&#8221; to such an important message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he hears &#8216;Black Lives Matter,&#8217; he presents a horrible, negative reality of something that doesn&#8217;t exist and he misses the underlying meaning that we&#8217;re saying we have to honor the role of African Americans in our history and in our society,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio&#8217;s spokeswoman Julia Arredondo also said Trump cannot run from or deny the &#8220;reality we are facing,&#8221; and that he should be reminded that &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; every time he goes to his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, meanwhile, had clarified Trump&#8217;s remarks, explaining that his &#8220;symbol of hate&#8221; comment was meant for the organization that makes statements against the police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All black lives do matter, he agrees with that sentiment, but what he doesn&#8217;t agree with is an organization that chants &#8216;pigs in a blanket, fry &#8217;em like bacon&#8217; about our police officers, our valiant heroes that are out on the street protecting us each and every day,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; painted in a large yellow font can now be seen in front of Trump Tower &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":261156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261167,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261139\/revisions\/261167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}