Source: Alisha Wormsley, The Last Billboard
Artist Alisha Wormsley’s simple statement about black people existing in the future is apparently too much for some Pittsburgh residents to accept.
The billboard, the latest in a series from The Last Billboard project, was removed from the building where it was located at the end of March. The building’s property manager Eve Picker told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a statement, “we were contacted by a number of people in the local community who said that they found the message offensive and divisive.” This was the first billboard removed in the project’s eight year history.
Black people will exist in the future, but what where will they live? From Pittsburgh to Portland and Austin to Oakland, historically black neighborhoods have now become places where black people are no longer welcome.
in the inner city by Lucille Clifton
in the inner city
or
like we call it
home
we think a lot about uptown
and the silent nights
and the houses straight as
dead men
and the pastel lights
and we hang on to our no place
happy to be alive
and in the inner city
or
like we call it
home
Voracious DPC 