Virginia Seaside is brooding about painting Sad Lives Matter down its oceanfront boardwalk after a Grammy-winning musician from the city supported the realization on social media
June 11, 2020, 2: 07 PM
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. —
Virginia Seaside is brooding about painting Sad Lives Matter down its oceanfront boardwalk after Grammy-winning musician Pharrell Williams supported the realization on social media.
Williams, a recording artist and producer who’s from the city, proposed the tribute in an Instagram publish this week, adding a photo of what the message would look treasure alongside Virginia Seaside’s boardwalk with the caption “VB let’s salvage it happen.”
An Instagram page known as Oceanfront9 had first posted the photo, The Virginian-Pilot reported.
Final week, the identical words were painted in giant yellow letters down the Washington road that results within the White Home. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the painting used to be meant to ship a message of toughen and solidarity to Americans outraged over the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.
More than 136,000 of us had liked Williams’ publish as of Thursday morning and Virginia Seaside Mayor Bobby Dyer said Wednesday that he and city workers planned to talk about about whether or no longer the art work can even happen.
“Clearly, it will involve (a city) council option and additionally working with the community,” The Virginian-Pilot quoted Dyer as asserting. “We’re going to be taking a stare upon multiple ways of addressing the concerns of African American of us.”
Williams went to excessive college in Virginia Seaside and has since been serious about a vary of causes within the city, including organizing the multi-day “One thing within the Water” track competition and penning a new tune for a tourism commercial campaign.
