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Oakland Breonna Taylor Sculpture Smashed in Act of ‘Racist Aggression’ Two Weeks After Its Installation

Most people in America celebrate the holidays with family, good food and gift exchanges, but at least one miserable human being decided ‘tis the season for racism and vandalism when they chose the day after Christmas to smash to pieces a sculpture of Breonna Taylor in downtown Oakland, Calif.

Most people in America celebrate the holidays with family, good food and gift exchanges, but at least one miserable human being decided ‘tis the season for racism and vandalism when they chose the day after Christmas to smash to pieces a sculpture of Breonna Taylor in downtown Oakland, Calif.

The Mercury News reports that the bust created in Taylor’s image was destroyed two weeks after it was sculpted and displayed in Oakland’s Latham Square.

Who knows why some coward who doesn’t believe victims of police violence should be honored felt the need to smash a statue celebrating the life of someone whose killers will likely never be brought to justice anyway? It’s the kind of violent act that serves as a reminder that neither the ousting of Donald Trump as president nor the racial reckoning that America has been facing since this past summer means that we can expect much racial healing in the coming year.

Leo Carson, the artist who sculpted the statue, decried its destruction as an act of “racist aggression” against Taylor and Black Lives Matter.

“I’ve put in hours and hours of my work and built it by hand,” Carson said, Mercury News reports. “Before the pandemic, I was a waiter so I paid for this out of my own pocket. It wasn’t cheap and it was incredibly hurtful personally. But it was also an attack on Breonna Taylor and the Black Lives Matter movement.”

Fortunately, Carson hasn’t been deterred from creating art to honor the movement or Taylor. He told KRON 4 that he “just started a GoFundMe to cast it in bronze to repair it and to reinstall it in bronze so that this couldn’t happen again.” The GoFundMe page has already surpassed its goal of raising $5,000 for the effort.

Meanwhile, according to SFist, the Oakland Police Department has released a statement saying it’s “aware of the incident regarding the vandalism of a bust honoring Breonna Taylor,” and that an investigation is underway.

Carson said he will continue to make more art inspired by the BLM movement and that the nationwide protests have actually inspired much of the art scene in Oakland.

“This is a struggle that will continue to go on so I want my art to help encourage that process and encourage people to fight longer, fight harder and be more passionate,” Carson said, according to Mercury News. “Those protests have the power to really change things.”

“The art community that we have now, it originally sprung up around the Black Lives Matter struggle and it has since then completely transformed the city of Oakland,” he continued. “It has really connected with the movement and so I really want my art to be a part of that course to change history.”

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Racists have never been able to end a civil rights movement or any fight against systemic racism in America through random acts of violence and hatred. Some angry bigot taking his rage out on an inanimate object won’t stop anyone from protesting on behalf of Taylor or any other victims of police violence. The fight against racism in America will continue for as long as it’s necessary and anyone who opposes the fight can die mad. You can destroy a statue, but you can’t destroy the movement responsible for its creation

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Dean-Hark the Harold Castiel Sings

Cas-Dean I'm not singing

Dean-Amazing Cas

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Dean-Bird Man

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Hello here is my ted talk about what I just thought of ..rating the characters of H.O.O by how inappropriate their sense of humor is

Octavian🤮-10/10- he has a dirty sense of humor that makes everyone uncomfortable he definitely made his fair share of insensitive inappropriate jokes

Leo🔥9/10-Leo is more sly with his jokes and unlike octavian he actually makes people laugh when he says his dirty jokes

Percy🌊8/10- New Yorker who has heard a lot his jokes are more sarcastic and he makes inappropriate jokes when Annabeth isn't around because she would scold him

Will ☀️6/10-This might surprise you but I bet Kayla and Austin has told and explained to him dirty jokes and he is a doctor so he knows all the dirty facts he just prefers not to say any inappropriate jokes

Rachel🎨7/10-Rachel 100% knows dirty jokes and would occasionally say them to Percy or Leo

Piper💗 8/10-Piper has a dirty sense if humor especially around leo she tries to be subtle around Jason though

Annabeth📖5/10-Annabeth thinks dirty jokes are unintelligent and she will never say one but she knows about dirty jokes hence the scolding of Percy

Jason🌩️ 4/10-Jason is the dad of the group likewise he has a dad sense of humor so he doesn't understand dirty jokes all the time and will never make them

Reyna 👑 3/10-Its rare to see Reyna joke and her jokes are never dirty they are witty and sly

Nico 👻 0/10-Idk why there are some headcannons that Nico has a dirty sense of humor he grew up in the 40s that stuff was inexcusable back then

Frank🐻 3/10-doesnt know much dirty jokes and doesn't plan on it he is just innocent and had a sweet sense of humor

Hazel 💎0/10-knows no dirty jokes of any sorts and Nico would kill anyone who says a dirty joke to her(probably leo)

Anyways feel free to debate this in the comments. Also if there is any other thing you want me to rate for the H.O.O. Universe let me know

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