City of Tacoma art project will deliberately include racist quote

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UPDATE: APRIL 30, 2023 AT 7:00 PM

Spaceworks is a left-wing arts initiative between the City of Tacoma and the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber. He was hired to engage community members to create streetscape around the Hilltop neighborhood around the Tacoma Link extension. (City of Tacoma/Spaceworks Project)

The City of Tacoma is knowingly funding an art project featuring what is described as a racist and divisive quote. The $12 million project is funded by a combination of state and local taxes.

Spaceworks is a left-wing arts initiative between the City of Tacoma and the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber. He was hired to engage community members to create streetscape around the Hilltop neighborhood around the Tacoma Link extension.

After speaking with nearly 400 locals through deep, authentic and unexpected creative interventions, Spaceworks settled on a streetscape design incorporating a pan-African color palette and granite stone panels with inspirational quotes that the organization offered to the community.

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Racist quote to be featured in Tacoma art project

Most of the quotes selected are harmless. They include messages from Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and Ossie Davis.

But one of the selected quotes caught the eye of a Tacoma-based contractor reviewing the project, which is accepting requests for proposals. It comes from race-obsessed writer Mychal Denzel Smith. The contractor describes the quote as very racist towards white people.

It reads: The only limits imposed on blackness are those imposed by the white imagination.

The entrepreneur notes that this quote continues the hatred and blame in this country against white people. She also said that based on the content of the quote, the company she works for decided not to bid on this project as we do not agree with the imposed racist themes of this project.

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What is the point of this quote?

The Jason Rantz Show on KTTH asked a spokesperson for the city of Tacoma about the relevance of the racist quote. Its set must be displayed on the art project, as it is currently designed.

The spokesperson did not comment directly, explaining that it was the community-led process that made the selection. She also didn’t explain if there were any standards or guidelines that the project would have to follow. It seems clear that the city gives its tacit approval to the estimate. So, what is it for ? No more racial division in the name of fairness.

White imagination, whatever it is, does not affect the limits that a black person can impose on themselves. Progressive activists like to claim that a white supremacist culture is holding the black community back. But it’s the worldview of progressives that tries to hold back the black community.

When you constantly tell a community that they are always the victim, whether it is racism, sexism, homophobia or anti-Semitism, they will see every obstacle or failure through that lens. Didn’t find a job? It’s because you’re black. Didn’t get this promotion? It’s because you’re a woman.

This quote is not meant to inspire black people to overcome some white invented limitations on blackness. Its purpose is to create even more unnecessary acrimony between whites and blacks. The City of Tacoma should strive to do better.

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