Some present a complex array of worthy demands.
Some blend with their surroundings.
A few offer practical support.
Some recall other historic popular struggles.
Some support the neighbors.
Some are art.
Some take advantage of natural features.
Some manifestations provide small commercial opportunities.
Some aim to raise the banal to something more enduring.
Some rocks will not be moved.
I have friends who dismiss all this San Franciscan signage as performative virtue signaling. They are not all wrong. What concrete good does displaying BLM messages do?
But on the other hand, isn't some level of consciousness that something has to be done a prerequisite to more justice? I think so. Every sign seems to me a momentary, possibly fleeting, blow against apathy and inertia. It's up to all of us to make these manifestations more.
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