Western Mass News: Local artists are responding to the Black Lives Matter mural getting deface for a third time by painting another mural.
“I love working with the community, and as an artist, this message brings the community together,” said Springfield artist Frankie Borrero.
Local artists, Borrero, gathered in Springfield to paint a second Black Lives Matter mural to send a powerful message, after the third defacing on the first street mural in front of Springfield City Hall.
“This is just because we got no action on the defacing of the other mural, and we know that there is someone that’s known for defacing the first time,” said Springfield City Councilor Tracye Whitfield.
The second mural will be located at 2-32 Worthington Street. Artists, like Borrero, were each given a letter, spelling out Black Lives Matter, to design and paint.
“I got the letter “T.” What I did on mine has put a balance, sort of like a scale, weighing out the justice system, the hand in the middle reaching out,” Borrero explained.
Organizers told Western Mass News they want to see more action.
“We would, like the mayor’s administration and the D.A.’s Office, come forward with that person,” Whitfield said. “So, we can maybe prevent or defer folks from coming down and doing that again in the future.”
The damage to the mural on Court Street has been repaired, but organizers told Western Mass News they hope the second mural will send a message to the community.
“We know all lives matter; I want to make that point clear. We know police lives matter as well,” she said. “This isn’t anti-police, we need to create awareness for what’s happening to a lot of black people in the nation.”
Organizers said they will create as many murals as it takes to get their voices heard.
Translation – they will create as many murals as the taxpayers pay them to do. And every time one of these politically charged, anti-police children’s drawings on public property gets “defaced” they’ll get more work. Because God knows they can’t create anything of value that someone would purchase on the free market. They are completely dependent on the government paying them to doodle on brick buildings.
This is “artist” Frankie Borrero.
He seems to frequently get work from the City of Springfield. And according to him, he was in charge of painting the letter T.
“I got the letter “T.” What I did on mine has put a balance, sort of like a scale, weighing out the justice system, the hand in the middle reaching out,” Borrero explained.
Check out the new mural they did, particularly the letter T.
It’s a blue lives matter symbol, honoring the many police officers who have been killed in the line of duty. Except it’s surrounded by red dripping blood, and there are skulls instead of stars.
The City Councilor who is blaming is Tracye Whitfield. You may remember her as the mother of an Air Force student involved in one of the most infamous fake hate crime hoaxes of the many fake hate crimes during the Trump presidency. Even after it was revealed to be a hoax she still insisted her son was a victim.
She also organized a mob to protest a privately owned business because they had a dress code.
According to Tracye a local non-profit paid the artists $5K for their cop hating doodles.
Feel free to ask the Community Foundation of Western Mass on their Facebook page why they finance systemic anti-police hate speech by clicking here. Or email Mayor Domenic Sarno at lclick@springfieldcityhall.com and maybe he can explain why he’s allowing this sort of politically charged, violent anti-police rhetoric on public buildings. How exactly does this improve relationships between Springfield PD and the community? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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26 Comment(s)
Firstly, this article is completely unfactual. #FAKENEWS
Yes, Frank Barrero painted a letter T for this mural but CLEARLY not the one you all seem to have an issue with based on his description of his work, it’s the second T.
I also do not see any reference to the falsehood claim on Councilor Whitfield, all I see is her concern and outrage over a whiteboard message and her pride in her community.
Also, the $5,000 raised for a BLM mural was for the street mural in front of city hall, not for any other murals, and The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts stewards charitable funds on behalf of its donors, and turns those contributions into grants. THESE MURALS ARE NOT FUNDED WITH TAXPAYER MONEY, I mean, the donations do come from taxpayers, but not ALL SPRINGFIELD TAXPAYERS are paying for this hahaa
#FACTS
This mural is on PRIVATE PROPERTY, funded with DONATIONS.
THIS ISN’T ANTI-POLICE. You literally quoted her saying “We know all lives matter; I want to make that point clear. We know police lives matter as well,” she said. “This isn’t anti-police, we need to create awareness for what’s happening to a lot of black people in the nation.” The artist has every right to use whatever symbolism they want to depict their message, we don’t have to like it or love it, but it may be worth trying to understand it. Most “Controversial” Art is created to spark dialogue, and look… IT’S DOING JUST THAT!
THIS IS ART!!! Ya’ll are getting your panties in a twist over some paint that most of you claim “not to want to see all the time” and “this is why you don’t visit ***field” in the same breath. Which is it?!?! hahaha
I can’t believe how poorly written this article is and how angry you all are over some public ART!
Hope you take a moment to breathe and move on with your sad angry lives because there is a lot of POSITIVE things out there that is worthy of your time and attention 😉
Twatwaffle – brought to you by the letter T
Slave art is popping up in all the shithole cities that I would never go to anywhere. White people paint over negro graffiti at the first sign of it.
BLM had a bake sale at the church in Melrose with the BLM sign. I would “deface” the sign but unlike the hood boogers with the .25 semi automatic pistols in Dirty Dot a SWAT team would surround my house before I was fined $500 and sentenced to 30 years supervised release since it would cost too much to send me to prison. The church is unaware they are supporting commie atheists? I don’t think so.
Fuck BLM,your own sold your ancestors back in the day, they rounded up the slaves and had them at loading docks for sale,and America bought a small percentage of them ,the wealthiest man ever was black from Africa and made his money the old fashion way he sold his own people
That’s right. These animals try to subdue us with their arguments, they try to lay some claim of superiority over our race.
Oh, Africans were the “original” people. Africans were ruined by Whites.
But that is not reality or history.
Africans have decimated themselves more so than any colonialism. They are not the original people. They are unevolved monkeys.
Evolution can only occur through hardship. For hardship look outside the clones of Africa to the cold of Europe and the northern climes. That is where we learned intelligence. The cold gave us our rationality, and our capacity to endure.
Because they stayed in Africa, those people never had a chance to become our superior. They are no different than the monkeys they share coconuts with.
Never forget.
God is on our side and he has a plan for man to evolve. We are that plan. There is only progress forward or not.
When the war begins, what side will you join?
BLM means certain death for Whites.
Be the resistance. Be progress.
So proud, So woke high horse riding never beens becoming a voice for the nothings. Espousing greatness while vilifying the blue line. The blue line that solves the crime that is over run in the shitholes these online vigilantes come from. It’s an easy projection to blame law enforcement when these shitholes are lawless.
Blame the solution. Convenance be damned. Woke “community leaders” are dime a crime. Posturing idiots pointing at the problem yet offering nil solutions other than Cops are bad. Governmental nipple suckers.
Losers
shitskins, moon crickets, coloreds, call them what you will, fucking lazy retarded savages
Nothing that some spackle and napalm couldn’t resolve!
Blue lives don’t matter.
That mural won’t be there for long. I’m not gonna do it but all it takes is a water cannon full of paint in a hoodie and face mask at 3 AM. You could fuck that whole mural up in less than a minute and be long gone.
O Captain! My Captain! You have to do it!
Once Sarno isn’t mayor anymore, look out Springfield. One guarantee is his replacement will be worse.
BLM is a sham. Even the NBA has realized this heading into next season. LOL
This is war. Deus Vult. These people want nothing less than the destruction of the law and order created by our original Founding Fathers- strong men of value and European stock.
Look at South Africa and tell me how well BLM has worked over there. It’s become a rat infested shithole and extremely dangerous for any whites to live in. The white farmers who lived on the land are summarily executed. Those blacks can’t even figure out how to care for the land and are left jobless and starving in spite of the agricultural bounty they have on hand.
The people want the denigration off America into Africa. They want us all to be equal in our poverty.
It’s cute to make articles TB, but action needs to be taken. Lines need to be drawn.
Mines will not be a Thin Blue Line. But red with the blood of my enemies.
This is war.
You seem stable.
Mural’s…or VANDALISM?
I don’t want to look at that shit everyday. Like the scumbags who paint bridges and overpasses. Your spigger culture is shit.
Keep it out of my face.
Most people in Massachusetts don’t even think Springfield is part of the State. Spicfield shithole next to Connecticut.
Why are local governments allowing a political message to be graffitied all over their cities? How is that legal?
Fuck BLM and woke liberal scum
…and I will keep defacing!
I may have to use a paintball gun going forward, instead of my trusty Kilz, it’s all good.
This is a very smart American Man from the Hood. More Americans from the Hood should strive to open their eyes and educate themselves about the demokkkratic party.
His words may be true, but do not be fooled by the fifth column. When the shots fire do you really think he’s going to abstain from shooting at you or I? Not likely.
Inferior intelligence.
“It’s a blue lives matter symbol, honoring the many police officers who have been killed in the line of duty.”
No it’s not. Stop making shit up.
He’s not making it up, that’s an accurate statement.
Soooo, what is it a symbol of then?
Please enlighten us.
It was not so long ago that people were feeding the police on a daily basis and rocking a Thin Blue Line Flag with them.
What changed? And please dont give me the bullshit that they killed the patron saint of crime. Cops did not kill him, it was fentanyl that killed him. When everyone was going around saying cops killed him I was the only one telling it like it is “he died from fentanyl” I had said that from the very beginning. even before the families independent medical examiner had said so as well! So again I ask you, what is it that, that flag means?
Please try to come up with an articulate response! I dont want to hear what the parrots in the MSM told you what the flag means. I want you too tell me what the meaning of the flag is in your own words. I’ll wait!