# Cities painting BLM on pubic streets **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 11, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416 "2020-06-11T00:02:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/61 "2020-06-11T02:48:37Z")
I thought you didn’t actually live IN the city, just nearby. Why should you have a say in what they do or don’t? Could even be why you weren’t consulted! ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/62 "2020-06-11T02:50:50Z")
They can not display it on their private cars while on company property. ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/63 "2020-06-11T02:51:56Z")
It’s my city, I’m like a mile away. and its on a state highway. ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/64 "2020-06-11T02:53:52Z")
I’m in upstate NY so we do really play the suburb game like downstate. The main city is our city. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/65 "2020-06-11T03:07:13Z")
Do you pay municipal taxes to ‘your’ city? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/66 "2020-06-11T03:07:54Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > So its not welcoming so what. What does that have to do with anything? What it has to do with is called “institutional racism”. Which is not the same thing as legally mandated and enforced racial discrimination. If you’re not particularly bothered by the presence of institutional/systemic racism in your workplace culture because it doesn’t seriously hamper your work, fine by me. I’m just pointing out that when racist attitudes and discriminatory tendencies persist in institutions and social structures even though they’re no longer required by law, and even though they don’t affect all members of the target group uniformly or drastically, that still counts as institutional (or systemic) racism. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/67 "2020-06-11T07:56:34Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > People like me do things like TED talks all over you tube {…} Keeping with the established theme of the thread. Can you explain what a _TED talk_ is and link to a couple of the ones ‘people like you’ have done? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/68 "2020-06-11T11:56:21Z")
N.m., it’s been addressed. ---
**Author:** ![BeagleJesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5daacb/32.png) [@BeagleJesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeagleJesus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/69 "2020-06-11T12:43:35Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > No I don’t see what you mean. Personal experiences are what your personality is made from. I’ve already said that Floyd didn’t deserve to die and the killer should be prosecuted. > > I’m saying that this incident is being made out to be every black persons problem. I’m saying that is far from the truth. > > Me Too is the same type of BS as BLM, refer to my post where I talk about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Dude, if you are looking for allies then the republicans would _LOVE_ to get you and your blackness on camera spouting this bullshit. I too, am a black man who has largely been able to avoid the bullshit, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have solidarity with those brothas and sistas who have had issues. I’m an atheist but I have always identified with the saying “there but for the grace of god, go I.” I encourage you to consider the fact that, if things had been a little bit different in your life, you might have become the victim of police violence, lying dead on the street somewhere in America and people like you wouldn’t give a shit. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/70 "2020-06-11T12:59:58Z")
It could still happen. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/71 "2020-06-11T16:24:06Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > Just an obvious type o in the head liner, sorry about that, no need to get on you high horse about it Why not? You got on your horse over a city sponsored painting of city street. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/72 "2020-06-11T16:28:07Z")
In a city he doesn’t actually live in! ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/73 "2020-06-11T17:13:47Z")
Would it be less political if it said “All lives matter”? ---
**Author:** ![Deltree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Deltree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deltree)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/74 "2020-06-13T21:55:27Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Okay, let’s try this: You’re the mayor of a town with a hundred denizens. 800 people want a stop light installed at the corner of Elm and Main. 200 people don’t. > > What do you do? Complain about the blatant ballot-box stuffing. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/75 "2020-06-14T00:45:46Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > Just an obvious type o in the head liner, sorry about that, no need to get on you high horse about it Type o-positive or o-negative? ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/76 "2020-06-14T01:03:03Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > No, I refuse to take a seat. I’m saying the city should not endorse BLM which is what they have done. My city has sided with a political group, on a public road for all to see, with a movement I don’t agree with. Just think if they had painted Trump across the same intersection. This whole thing is getting out of hand. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/77 "2020-06-14T01:08:48Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > In other words, what is really stopping any black person from reaching as high as they can in this country? > > I already know the answer is nothing. There is no institutional racism now. I… see. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/78 "2020-06-14T12:05:13Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > My city should not be taking the slogan of a extreme left wing political movement and painting all over the street. Equating the statement “Black lives matter” with “the slogan of a extreme left wing political movement” is actually a powerful example of how institutional racism is. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/79 "2020-06-14T16:03:54Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > So my nearest city, which I of course don’t live in … > I don’t agree with BLM You don’t live in that city, _of course_. Is this some sort of “winning ticket”? And you don’t agree with BLM? Do you have the courage of your convictions? Are you bravely walking with your fellows chanting “Black Lives Don’t Matter”? > [@split\_p\_j](#): > > … My city has sided with a political group… Just think if they had painted Trump across the same intersection. This whole thing is getting out of hand. You don’t live there (of course!) but it’s your city? Is this related to your username “split p&j”? Is it the p who doesn’t live there and the j who does, or vice versa? And precisely which “whole thing” is getting out of hand? Police brutality? > [@running\_coach](#): > > Now you’re just splitting hairs. Reported! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ynnad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416/80 "2020-06-14T17:49:16Z")
I don’t think anyone has mentioned traffic safety. In addition to the big yellow BLM letters, I have heard of a city close to here that has painted some crosswalk symbols in the street with the colors of the rainbow and a city I am associated with has an entire intersection painted with a Toad Suck Daze emblem (I am not making this up). Without taking any political, religious, or social position one way or another concerning the Bureau of Land Management, diffraction of visible light, or _Bufonidae_, I assert that these practices should stop immediately. Imagine a driver from out of town suddenly encountering something like this. They might think they are supposed to slow down, change lanes, stop, or who knows what. At the very least they would be distracted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-painting-blm-on-pubic-streets/855416.md?page=3)