{"id":53151,"date":"2020-08-25T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-the-fifth-avenue-black-lives-matter-mural-is-another-de-blasio-disaster\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:20:00","slug":"why-the-fifth-avenue-black-lives-matter-mural-is-another-de-blasio-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-the-fifth-avenue-black-lives-matter-mural-is-another-de-blasio-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why the Fifth Avenue \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 mural is another de Blasio disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Why the Fifth Avenue \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 mural is another de Blasio disaster<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 24, 2020 |<\/span> 8:20pm <\/p>\n

\n It happ<\/a>ened again this weekend: A pro-Trump protester vandalized the Black Lives Matter mural painted on Fifth Avenue below Trump Tower. The mural has become a dangerously divisive symbol. It needs to go.<\/p>\n

Last month, Mayor de Blasio and several other political and civic leaders helped paint the bright yellow letters on the pavement in front of the president\u2019s iconic HQ. Ever since, critics have repeatedly doused it with black or red paint.<\/p>\n

Police have arrested the vandals, and enlightened opinion has \u00addenounced them as crackpot Trump supporters. The mayor\u2019s childish provocation is now an icon of the anti-Trump #Resistance. To the woke, the mural must be preserved as a reaffirmation of City Hall\u2019s commitment to all that is good and just \u2014 including, no doubt, a Democratic victory in November.<\/p>\n

Self-awareness and thinking outside of his own personal ideological box isn\u2019t one of Hizzoner\u2019s strengths. But after several weeks of this nonsense, it\u2019s time for the mayor to rethink the decision to turn the Fifth Avenue site into a magnet for protests that are \u00adalmost certainly going to get nastier and messier as we draw closer to the election.<\/p>\n

This mayor has overseen a mental-health crisis long predating the recent pandemic troubles, an \u00adexplosion in homelessness, a massive spike in violent crime and the general<\/a> collapse of the rule of law. So his decision to paint the slogan in front of President Trump\u2019s former home isn\u2019t the worst thing de Blasio has done. But the mural does symbolize the way he has demonized the police and prioritized the politics of the ideological left over the safety and well-being of ordinary New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

The president has largely avoided the place in the last 3\u2009\u00b9\/\u2082 years for security reasons. But the building is still the most prominent reminder that Trump is a lifelong New Yorker, whose fingerprints as a real-estate developer are all over the city.<\/p>\n

As such, it was understandable that liberals would fixate on the tower to vent their spleen at the president. But for the city to make such sentiments official government policy was an absurd abuse of power to advance a partisan cause. Was it legal, strictly speaking? Probably.<\/p>\n

Was it wise? Absolutely not.<\/p>\n

New York has had its share of great and good mayors. In the last century, men such as Fiorello La Guardia, Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani left Gotham better than they found it. There is an even longer list of terrible and corrupt mayors dating back to the 19th century. But it isn\u2019t likely that even one of the on-the-take stooges and knaves put forth by Tammany Hall in its heyday would have thought insulting a sitting president from Manhattan was a good idea. Trump, after all, might get re-elected, and the Big Apple badly needs a federal bailout.<\/p>\n

The mural was also a terrible idea from the point of view of social<\/a> cohesion. De Blasio has now enshrined a visible marker of support for the official BLM movement, which smears America as irredeemably racist and promotes terrible ideas like defunding the police. Hizzoner has also created a rallying point for Trump supporters.<\/p>\n

Now overburdened cops have to arrest anyone who dares to deface the mural \u2014 even as few have been arrested for graffiti and far worse forms of disorderly conduct committed in the name of black lives. Taxpayers, moreover, have to foot the bill for the mural at a time when funding for graffiti cleanup elsewhere \u2014 so necessary to maintain the impression that the law is being enforced \u2014 has been cut.<\/p>\n

But the deepest problem is that de Blasio has created what lawyers might call an \u201cattractive nuisance\u201d that is a standing invitation to mayhem. Last month, a policeman was injured during one such melee. As the election campaign heats up, this finger in the eye of Trump will continue to be a point of contention; more casualties are likely.<\/p>\n

Only someone as blind to reality as de Blasio can fail to see that turning Fifth Avenue into a battle zone merely to troll the president isn\u2019t worth it. Removing the BLM mural won\u2019t help Trump win. But it will be a much-needed return to sanity that all New Yorkers should approve.<\/p>\n

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org. Twitter: @JonathanS_Tobin<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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