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A Black Lives Matter mural that was defaced on Somerset Street in September is being repainted this week by the same artist and will be showcased outside the McNabb Community Centre.
With the help of Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney and neighbourhood businesses including Venus Envy and Johnny Farina restaurant, funds were raised to pay for supplies and hire artist Kalkidan Assefa to repaint the mural this week.
The original mural was meant to publicize murders of blacks and others in the transgender community. The vandalism – which included scrawled sentences like “all colours matter” and “you’ve been warned” – was treated as a possible hate crime. However, Ottawa police said Wednesday that “all leads were exhausted” and no charges were laid.
In July, a mural by Assefa and others on the “Tech Wall” at Bronson Avenue and Slater Street honouring Sandra Bland, a black woman found hanged in a Texas jail cell, was similarly defaced.
Asked whether he’s concerned the same thing will happen to this mural, Assefa admitted he did but pointed out that the mural will be placed at a higher point and more difficult to access.
“It’s going to be a little bit harder for it to be damaged,” he said. “But it’s not unexpected, it’s part of the reason we are doing these — to shine a light on some of the anti-black racisim and some of the transphobia we have in the community.”
pmccooey@ottawacitizen.com
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With the help of Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney and neighbourhood businesses including Venus Envy and Johnny Farina restaurant, funds were raised to pay for supplies and hire artist Kalkidan Assefa to repaint the mural this week.
The original mural was meant to publicize murders of blacks and others in the transgender community. The vandalism – which included scrawled sentences like “all colours matter” and “you’ve been warned” – was treated as a possible hate crime. However, Ottawa police said Wednesday that “all leads were exhausted” and no charges were laid.
In July, a mural by Assefa and others on the “Tech Wall” at Bronson Avenue and Slater Street honouring Sandra Bland, a black woman found hanged in a Texas jail cell, was similarly defaced.
Asked whether he’s concerned the same thing will happen to this mural, Assefa admitted he did but pointed out that the mural will be placed at a higher point and more difficult to access.
“It’s going to be a little bit harder for it to be damaged,” he said. “But it’s not unexpected, it’s part of the reason we are doing these — to shine a light on some of the anti-black racisim and some of the transphobia we have in the community.”
pmccooey@ottawacitizen.com
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