It’s Halloween y’all!
For folks who have been following this news story in the NYT, Amersterdam News, the NY Post and the Brooklyn Eagle, I was horrified to find out my childhood home was defiled with racist Halloween art decor in its windows last week.
As promised, I wrote an essay in response. Here’s my article published in the Brooklyn Eagle on Oct 31, 2019.
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This is very sad! I am sure that this family’s neighbors have seen it, just like all passersby in the neighborhood. If they do nothing about it, it means that they are supporting it. The stairs to the home should not be so clean!! It should be flooded with protest.
Infuriating and sad indeed! The display has since been taken down and there have been protests all last week in front of the property, including calls to boycott the business. The co-founder and resident of the property also resigned from the art organization she established, submitting a letter to the Board on October 25, 2019.
In my view, the residents’ letter of resignation is a symbolic gesture that does not erase her initial intention and final decision to hang the artwork in the windows of her private residence nor does it lead the public to assume she will not be involved, in any capacity, in a nonprofit she co-founded.