Expanded tweet about a Parisian Street Art Video Clip

I said it before and I will say it again. I truly don't trust folks who say they want to rid a neighborhood of 'graffiti'. I did some tweets about this online some years back. Now I saw from an Arabic language Twitter account showing a video clip from New street art in Paris. Already, I viewed comments from folks saying this isn't Paris' true artwork. That there is better works in their museums and galleries. I CALL FOUL. These same folks would gentrify a neighborhood and drive its original residents out. Gentrification is just colonization on a smaller, more urban scale.

Here's what I quote-tweeted:

Street Art is the art of the masses.✊🏿 The soul of a neighborhood. A community's color. Anyone who believes art should only be in museums and galleries is an elitist and doesn’t believe in inclusion. 

Street Art is in my blood

On way to the city of Hallandale or Hollywood

Miami finally began to see graffiti as Street Art it is and can be and they're late.

I remember working with the City of North Miami Beach back in the late 90s and having to work with one of the administrators to write a PR piece about the dangers of graffiti. I couldn't in all good conscience do the PR as it was so anti-street graffiti, equating gorgeous urban-cultural murals and quirky graffiti with gang tags, street gangs, and crime in lower-income neighborhoods. I didn't get to do the piece. The supervisor and I couldn't agree and I was thankfully removed from the project. 

Nowadays, when I travel downtown Miami, I see even more captivating graffiti and the street art from my New York City childhood.

Mixed fruit and candy supply warehouse in Hollywood, Miami