A Black advocacy group is pulling the plug on a planned mural in downtown Calgary, citing violent threats and racist vitriol, CBC News reports.
Pink Flamingo received $120,000 from the City of Calgary for a series of murals related to Black Lives Matter. One was to replace a 25-year-old mural by Doug Driediger showing a pair of hands releasing a white dove.
"It has been incredibly, without mincing words, quite racist and quite violent towards us," Pink Flamingo co-founder Allison Dunne told the Calgary Eyeopener this week.
Driediger's mural, Giving Wings to the Dream is on the former Calgary Urban Project Society building on Seventh Avenue S.E.
Dunne says there has been pushback from owners of other potential sites.
"Some buildings did not want the subject matter on their building, even though we don't have the art chosen yet," Dunne said.
She said the project will be reassessed next summer.
Source: CBC News