Anti-Confederate statue vandalized with racist graffiti (MD)
Rebekah Kirkman
November 6
Around 11 last night .. Pablo Machioli's anti-Confederate sculpture of a black woman with a pregnant belly was vandalized, spray-painted with the n-word and the womb punched in, while .. housed in the Copycat's La Bodega Gallery ...
The sculpture was installed as a protest to the Lee-Jackson monument in Wyman Park Dell last Thursday evening until the following Friday afternoon, when the Recreation and Parks Department removed it.
Members of La Bodega Gallery say they got security camera footage from Copycat staff, and they said it appears that a resident of the building is responsible ...
While the statue was installed over at Wyman Park Dell, people were encouraged to interact with it and write their responses to it. Most of the responses were positive, Silverman Andrews said, adding that it's "important to emphasize that this sculptural intervention was peaceful and positive, but sometimes doing peaceful and positive things brings out a lot of ugliness in response" ...
http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/the-news-hole/bcpnews-anti-confederate-statue-vandalized-inside-the-copycat-building-20151106-story.html
