Sunday, February 27, 2011
Has a billboard ever been taken down this quickly in NYC?
The billboard I blogged about last week was taken down after a single day. Al Sharpton was set to hold a press conference decrying the billboard. According to Planned Parenthood, the billboard was "offensive and disturbing," and its creators used "divisive messaging around race to restrict access to medical care." I agree with some of the commenters who pointed out the problematic statements about genocide on the website listed on the billboard, but I still believe that the message on the billboard itself is an important conversation-starter.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/02/has-a-billboard-ever-been-taken-down-this-quickly-in-nyc.html
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I would guess that you don't own an "I Love NY" button.
The billboard was taken down by the advertising company that manages the billboard. It was not taken down by the city.
The billboard did offend those who are strongly pro-choice, but it also offended black people who saw the message as critical of black women.
I think we would be getting into literary theory if we debated whether the billboard could or should be interpreted independently of the message its creators wanted to send. But in the New York Daily News the day the billboard went up, Stephen Broden of the board of directors of Life Always said, "We celebrate our history, but our future is in jeopardy as a genocidal plot is carried out through abortion." I really don't see how you can defend the billboard without defending the message of Life Always that Planned Parenthood is a racist organization intent on exterminating black people.