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‘Not a Great Way to Use Your White Privilege’: Three Women Harassed for Cleaning Graffiti

Photo by Jimmy Ofisia/Unsplash
Photo by Jimmy Ofisia/Unsplash
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By Tré Goins-Phillips
Editor

June 4, 2020

Three women were attempting to scrub graffiti off a federal building in Washington, D.C., when they were verbally berated by a passerby who suggested their work to clean up the nation’s capital was racist.

“Why are you guys removing ‘Black Lives Matter’ graffiti?” the angered woman asked from her car. “Why do you want that to come off?”

The three ladies said they only wanted to remove the vandalism because it was spray painted onto a federal building and they wanted to do their part to help clean up after nights of peaceful protesting and violent rioting.

Breaking: It’s now racist to clean up graffiti. pic.twitter.com/UzEKGoPaHq

— Digital Forests (@DigitalForests) June 4, 2020

In response, the frustrated woman asserted: “So you don’t care about black lives, then.”

“That’s not at all what we’re saying,” said one woman. Another added, “We certainly care about black lives.”

The dissenter was unhappy with their replies.

She said they apparently don’t care about black lives “enough to leave up a message.”

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“We don’t disagree with the message, ma’am,” said one of the women, trying once again to reason with her. “It’s just on the building. We’re just trying to clean it.”

Refusing to listen, the angered woman charged them with racism. “Not a great way to use your white privilege, ladies,” she said before driving off. “That’s disgusting.”

The peaceful protests and violent riots — which have resulted in total destruction, fires, and murders — follow the killing last week of George Floyd, a black man, by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a white man.

Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

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