Artist Keyonna Jones details working on Black Lives Matter mural in DC

 

Artist Keyonna Jones details working on Black Lives Matter mural in DC
Keyonna Jones and Mayor Muriel Bowser Artist Keyonna Jones (Photo credit: Sareen Hairbedian)

What did Mayor Muriel Bowser say to you during the reveal?


[She said], “Thank you so much for doing this. Thank you for your work.” There [are] a lot of people who are saying a lot of things. A lot of people aren’t as happy or as satisfied with the mural. They think it’s performative, they think it’s a Band-Aid, they think it was a tit for tat, a petty move toward Trump. And some of those things I believe and some of those things I think are very appropriate, even though people don’t like them. Through and through, our mayor is a Black woman. She has to share space and share ruling with President [Donald] Trump in D.C. There’s a lot of things that she’s being blamed for, that is not her. I don’t think a lot of people understand how D.C. works and how the politics work here. I commend her for doing this. I commend her for taking such a bold stand. I haven’t seen anything like it anywhere else. 


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