Pretty In Pink?
8 Sep 2022 19:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karmicdragonflyBack in 2020, I mentioned here in passing that after the local BLM protests, that I needed to go to the park the next day to pick some berries as self medication to calm myself -- More Mulberries Please
I don't think I posted about how on the night of one of the protests, as I sat on my porch following livecam Twitter feeds about what was happening downtown, my eyes started watering. I live pretty far from downtown, but there was a haze in the air in the yard, and a smell came into the house through the open windows and lingered through the night. I think that either tear gas, or some chemical related to it, got carried by the wind to the yard outside my house. I only got rid of the smell by closing the windows and running my AC to clear the smell from inside.
Tonight, I was at a local museum for a happy hour and I got to see one of the old Confederate monuments on display.
This is Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, as he looked after he was pulled down. Covered in pink paint and face smashed from the fall. Museum personnel noted that there was a lot of discussion about how to display the statue. When standing, the statue was scary -- smashed face and all -- and then they hatched the idea of displaying the statue as it looked after it was pulled down.
Face smashed, and you can also note the pieces of toilet paper around the neck --
Urine from the night of the protests conserved -- it's the yellowish stain towards the top of the photo --
The location where the statue had been displayed --
I don't think I posted about how on the night of one of the protests, as I sat on my porch following livecam Twitter feeds about what was happening downtown, my eyes started watering. I live pretty far from downtown, but there was a haze in the air in the yard, and a smell came into the house through the open windows and lingered through the night. I think that either tear gas, or some chemical related to it, got carried by the wind to the yard outside my house. I only got rid of the smell by closing the windows and running my AC to clear the smell from inside.
Tonight, I was at a local museum for a happy hour and I got to see one of the old Confederate monuments on display.
This is Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, as he looked after he was pulled down. Covered in pink paint and face smashed from the fall. Museum personnel noted that there was a lot of discussion about how to display the statue. When standing, the statue was scary -- smashed face and all -- and then they hatched the idea of displaying the statue as it looked after it was pulled down.
Face smashed, and you can also note the pieces of toilet paper around the neck --
Urine from the night of the protests conserved -- it's the yellowish stain towards the top of the photo --
The location where the statue had been displayed --