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Nevilledog

(51,080 posts)
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:41 PM Aug 2020

After a White man repeatedly erased girl's 'Black Lives Matter' chalk drawing in front of her home..

After a White man repeatedly erased girl's 'Black Lives Matter' chalk drawing in front of her home, neighbors stepped in to show support

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/us/white-man-erases-black-lives-matter-chalk-trnd/index.html

(CNN)Every day for nearly a week, Manette Sharick and her 3-year-old daughter, Zhuri, drew "Black Lives Matter" in chalk across the sidewalk outside their home in Concord, California.

But every time they wrote the message, they woke up the next morning to find that the word Black, and only that word, had been erased.

"I just wanted to teach my daughter that Black lives matter, Black culture matters, Black communities matter, and that we are the movement for Black lives," Sharick, who is Black, told CNN. "I was shocked that someone could be purposefully doing this. It hurt a lot, it made me extremely upset."

Following three days of what she called "overwhelming frustration," Sharick wrote the message in direct view of her security camera.

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After a White man repeatedly erased girl's 'Black Lives Matter' chalk drawing in front of her home.. (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2020 OP
What a great story. cayugafalls Aug 2020 #1
... Nevilledog Aug 2020 #2
Overestimated His Neighborhood Support ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #3
RWers always seem to assume their opinions are what "everybody else" thinks... Wounded Bear Aug 2020 #11
That made me cry. Like the video of the black man a bit flabbergasted a white woman pulled over and LizBeth Aug 2020 #4
It made me cry because the lesson for the little one. The love and support and for her to see and LizBeth Aug 2020 #5
I'm in tears too. StarryNite Aug 2020 #7
It takes a village and we're stronger together. LizBeth Aug 2020 #8
One line in the article stood out Leith Aug 2020 #6
Some people don't like the word Black IronLionZion Aug 2020 #9
when all BLM llashram Aug 2020 #10
Purposeful ignorance LiberalLovinLug Aug 2020 #12

cayugafalls

(5,640 posts)
1. What a great story.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:54 PM
Aug 2020

The whole community came together and shut that guy down without any violence or hate filled speech, just love and support.

Thanks for posting a good story this morning.

ProfessorGAC

(65,000 posts)
3. Overestimated His Neighborhood Support
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:58 PM
Aug 2020

Didn't he. I think he figured the rest of the neighbors would have his back.
They didn't. Neighbors made him stand out as a big jerk.
No support, Jimmy!
I'm assuming he slithered back under his rock.

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
4. That made me cry. Like the video of the black man a bit flabbergasted a white woman pulled over and
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 03:00 PM
Aug 2020

video'd a traffic stop for 15 minutes until he drove away. Good things.

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
5. It made me cry because the lesson for the little one. The love and support and for her to see and
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 03:01 PM
Aug 2020

feel. HUGE!

StarryNite

(9,443 posts)
7. I'm in tears too.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 03:31 PM
Aug 2020

I'm so happy for the support they got. There is no shortage of assholes and they have been emboldened by the Orange It. But it turned out to be a great lesson for all. It takes a village and we're stronger together.

Leith

(7,809 posts)
6. One line in the article stood out
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 03:27 PM
Aug 2020
Since the outpour of support, the man has not tried to erase the message again.


He had no problem bullying a mother and daughter repeatedly. That so-called "man" is scum.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)
12. Purposeful ignorance
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 04:25 PM
Aug 2020

They convince themselves that BLM means:
ONLY Black Lives Matter

When it actually is meant as:
Black Lives Matter TOO

OF COURSE all lives matter. Of course there are underprivileged white people that get harassed and killed too. Although I doubt that is who this man is concerned about. But ffs, can't these whites, who twist the acronym to suit their own whitewashing of any systemic problem, just simply allow others to express how THEY define the statement?

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