#louisville graffiti

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"Abort the Supreme Court"

Seen in Louisville, Kentucky

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Louisville KY

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Trans rights graffiti spotted in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Humble Bones

a Profile on celebrity chef Edward Lee

Chef Edward Lee is a part-time restaurant owner, part-time James Beard award author, and a part-time food justice advocate. In my opinion however he’s a full-time food anthropologist, but most importantly a full-time human.

In 2002 Chef Lee moved to Louisville, Kentucky and began working/co-owning his first restaurant 610 Magnolia. He also owns/owned three more restaurants around the country. Chef Lee originated from the city of Brooklyn, a highly diverse and populated city. Growing up in such a place has definitely affected the way he thinks and acts, having a great understanding of community building and human empathy. He can also be categorized as being stubborn or strong willed. “I was probably 11 or 12, and I told my parents I said, I'm gonna be a chef one day,’’ Always sticking to his plans and staying strong to achieve his goals. “I never really considered doing anything else with my life was I've I've been obsessed with it since I was little kid, and it's still obsessed with it.’’ These features are some of the reasons he’s so successful today. Because he has a voice and knows how to use it.

In 2013 Chef Lee released his first book Smoke and Pickles. When asked about his novels he simply refers to his first as “ ..more of a cookbook…” This isn’t a way to diminish the work that went into Smoke and Pickles but it does greatly contrast to the tone and style of his subsequent writing. The book that won him a James Beard award in 2019 was titled Buttermilk Graffiti. But what made this book so phenomenal? Written in 2018 this novel perfectly encapsulates the human soul's ties to food, a feature of humans that has survived centuries, and a feature that was important to our survival as a human race. Buttermilk Graffiti was innovative for the time as Chef Lee states, “I'll be honest with you like, I don't think a book like this has been written before. where, you know, I spent a year and a half researching and writing about people that weren't famous, or they didn't have famous restaurants, and they didn't have, you know. Well-known places.’’ Understanding the ordinary people in the community around you is an important step in learning human empathy. Being able to live so closely with others and observe how they live and survive through the good and the bad opens a third eye for the self. You soon realize that all these “ordinary” people aren’t so ordinary and their stories could be novels themselves. But also I would like to loop around to something else Chef Lee said, “We all know these people, and I think for me it was just refreshing and beautiful to talk about them and write about them’’... “ and to really show that like, we all know that America is a melting pot, right?’’ The ordinary people in your community, the peasants, and the immigrants, are Americana.

They are the people who built this country’s culture on their backs. Because of this American culture blending foods also begin blending and transforming. Food is culture, the immigration of one cannot be done without the other, or else you end up with a heartless dish. Buttermilk Graffiti highlighted these people with their hometown restaurants and family recipes. Recipes can be a very vulnerable thing. Oftentimes recipes are passed down from matriarch to matriarch and stubbornly never change. Between the lines of these recipes hold the stories of the families they originate from.

Chef Lee doesn’t just facilitate the writing of these people. He works hard everyday to uplift the people in his community along with the restaurant industry as a whole. He’s known to be very vocal in his support of food justice, often creating tangible success for his community. From creating leadership positions for women in the industry to helping restaurant workers during the global pandemic.This non-profit work lends to his empathy as a human as when recounting about how and why he started the LEE initiative he states, “It just made me realize that as hard as my struggle was in the kitchen, you know, on my clawing my way up through the rings, and it was really hard,”... “But the the the female chef had to do all that, but then also worry about someone trying to grab her.” An experience women in any industry can relate to. And to be able to take a step back and understand that even though it was hard for him that didn’t mean everyone was on equal footing and was in fact even harder for others.

Chef Edward Lee is famous for a reason, a reason linked to his humble philosophy and confidence. He continues to highlight and uplift marginalized communities while serving fantastic meals. He's a patriot of American culture and a fresh pair of eyes for the food writing industry/ food industry as a whole.

Works citied

-All quotes are directly from the Chef Edward Lee Zoom lecture transcript

https://uno.zoom.us/rec/share/4HPRmqIURcfQ3UkT42-0fpD10X9LHmzjbY2QSB7giAxsJOS03uM31e8v3v0OOn0-.Eub5vuKw2GsAR4xJ

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Wild Eggs

I’m sitting alone in our second favorite breakfast spot in Louisville. Our favorite one moved across the river. Our antique shop is abandoned, graffiti covering it’s doors. I’m afraid to go down to the overlook and find our initials worn away, stolen by the six years between then and now.

I’m facing the booth where we took pictures of each other using Snapchat filters. They were new at the time. It feels like it was yesterday, but now we have AI. We had no clue what was to come.

At some point, I switched deodorant brands. I still use the same shampoo, the one you bought after we first shared a hotel room together.

Not even a year after we shared a plate of bacon in this Wild Eggs I drove 2,174 miles across the country, searching for magic. I didn’t know I’d already found it inside a shitty Days Inn in Louisville, Kentucky.

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💛338 - graffiTi arT 😊💛🤟 (at Louisville, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClxMBaRN2aC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#Streetart by #ChrisCarlson + #NateBaranowski @ #Louisville, USA @chriscarlsonart @nate.baranowski #arte #art #graffiti #murals #murales #arteurbana #urbanart #muralism #muralismo #cultureisfreedom #artisfreedom #curiositykilledtheblogger #artblogging #photooftheday #artaddict #artistsoninstagram #artcurator #artwatchers #artcollectors #artdealer #artlover #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea https://www.instagram.com/p/CCDg3UKgK-3/?igshid=1dadjiu0wce4f

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There are Still Blue Skies Overhead (on Instagram) by Marisa Renee

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Another day, another dollar 💵 #圖文不符 #勿插 #我會痛 #mural #murals #instamural #graffiti #instagraffiti #graffitiart #JGumbos #louisville #kentuckty #usa #hkig #hkiger #insthk #gaptravel #hkboy #notboyanymore (at J. Gumbo's Frankfort Avenue)

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Some funny words I found a couple weeks ago

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"Where's My Money / Fuck Mitch / Mitch Kills Poor People"

The Louisville home of Mitch McConnel, a prominent Republican politician, was vandalized on the evening of January 2nd 2021. The graffiti refers to the $2,000 stimulus check increase that was blocked by the senator.

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Louisville, KY

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A 21-year-old activist, journalist and candidate for office has been arrested and charged in connection with the “attempted assassination” of a Louisville mayoral candidate, local authorities said late Monday.

Quintez Brown was taken into custody without incident after police said a gunman walked into candidate Craig Greenberg’s office hours early, and opened fire.

“When we greeted him, he pulled out a gun aimed directly at me, and began shooting,” Greenberg recalled at an afternoon news conference.

Brown has been charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment, according to a Louisville Metro Police spokesperson.

The 21-year-old was identified as “a former intern and editorial columnist” of the Louisville Courier-Journal by the paper itself, where he wrote that he had studied philosophy and Pan-Africanism while studying at the University of Louisville, where he'd previously served as the opinion editor of the school’s newspaper, the Cardinal.

Miraculously, no one was harmed in the Monday morning shooting, which Greenberg called “a surreal experience.” A police spokesperson told The Daily Beast that Greenberg and his staff were uninjured—but a bullet did strike the back of Greenberg’s sweater.

A brave staffer managed to shut the door, and the group barricaded themselves inside while the shooter fled, the lawyer said at the conference.

“We are shaken, but safe,” he added.

While Brown’s motive remains unclear, Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Erika Shields said that early evidence suggests that the shooter “acted alone” and deliberately targeted the Democrat.

Metro Council President David James was the first to call the incident “an attempted assassination.”

Greenberg refused to comment on whether he recognized the gunman.

Brown wrote his first column for the Courier-Journal in 2018, describing how he’d staged a sit-in at a local high school to demand the termination of a school official who’d used racially insensitive language.

He went on to pen dozens of columns for the paper, writing largely about racism, poverty, and violence.

After getting involved in the racial justice protests in the summer of 2020, Brown vanished for roughly two weeks, according to the Courier-Journal. His family asked for privacy upon his reappearance.

Several months later, Brown posted a video to Twitter to announce he would be running to represent a local district on Louisville’s Metro Council.

In his penultimate column for the Courier-Journal, titled “How the American education system destroyed me as a Black student,” Brown wrote, “I’m America’s bright future. I’ve become another symbol of neoliberal progress where my title and my ‘recognized’ name will give hope to those in desperate need of food, security and shelter.”

“And thus I’ve become destroyed,” he concluded. “No longer myself. But another tool of oppression.”

Mayoral candidate Timothy Findley added in a Monday tweet that he was “praying for the saftey [sic] of Craig Greenberg and staff” before calling the incident “unacceptable.”

According to his campaign website, Greenberg is an attorney and former CEO of 21C Museum Hotels. The Harvard law school graduate and member of the University of Louisville Board of Trustees has previously said that public safety would be his top priority if elected.

Last month, Greenberg released a public safety plan that called for a “community-oriented police force.”

“Louisville is in a tough spot,” Greenberg said in a statement accompanying the plan. “Our neighborhoods feel less safe, violent crime is rising, and too many people are trapped in addiction. We see abandoned cars on the streets and graffiti and trash in many neighborhoods. You’ve shared your concerns with me as I have run through every precinct in our city. I share your worry and sense of urgency to fix this and fix this now.”

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2BUCK tribute 

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First hand account of police behavior during the protests in KY, from the /r/louisville subreddit

“Sharing the experience of a Louisvillian from last night that was shared with me.  I hope people will continue to share their experience to keep the truth alive.

I can’t help but give my full account of what happened last night as I saw it. It is actually legitimately hard to believe, but bear with me. Though they may not have seen it all as clearly, I’m certain that people who were around me at various points of this can confirm it. This is probably the most important story I will tell for the rest of my life.  

I went to last night’s protest in a P-100 mask, a full-faced respirator with two particulate filters. I wore it because I’m extra vigilant about Covid and this seemed like quite a breeding ground for upset or careless people to forget there’s a pandemic killing people. I’d unfortunately learn later that it’s capable of filtering out tear gas, a lot of it; but that isn’t why I wore it, and I had it on the entire time.  

I got there around 8:30 with some good friends, and we went to 6th & Jefferson, in front of the courthouse, where most of the protest was taking place. It was passionate and collective, but overall peaceful. A friend and I took a lap around the courthouse, there was graffiti but nothing out of hand. I’d walked into that courthouse every day for a couple years, so I was really taking in the spectacle of how different the whole area looked under the circumstances. But there *were not broken windows, there wasn’t an angry mob gathered at the courthouse door, or any of these other images the government is trying to conjure. It was a peaceful protest by all standards.*  

Around 9, our group decided to take another lap. We were gonna come around the Chestnut & 6th side of the courthouse to not have to walk against the crowd, because people weren’t really gathered on the Chestnut side. As we rounded the courthouse, though, at 7th & Chestnut, the police had started to line up in formation in full riot gear, they were doing these kind of weird ceremonial lineup drills. At the time I thought it was a really silly spectacle. It seemed so unnecessary that it was a little funny, my friend joked that it looked like JROTC was in session, and it did. I was really amused by it and wondered like, is this for the news crews, or are they just kind of running a drill, or trying to remind the crowd of their presence? Initially it actually looked quite goofy and not as menacing as I assumed they wanted. Nevertheless we didn’t do that second lap as it seemed pretty clear we weren’t allowed to walk that direction on that public sidewalk at that time.

So this Cop Conga Line keeps adding to its ranks down towards 7th & Chestnut, then marches up to the west side of the 6th & Chestnut intersection. This is increasingly a weird spectacle to me, because the protest is really taking place in earnest a block north of there, and at first the cops are basically gathering by themselves, just standing in a menacing line in riot gear, even though there was no riot.

This achieved LMPD’s desired outcome of herding the crowd in front of them, so the scene you often see in protest coverage, a crowd of protestors opposing a line of riot police. I can’t use the word spectacle enough, or the word herding, which becomes a surprisingly common theme. Eventually the protest moves completely to in front of the police, as naturally it would since it’s a protest of the police.

It continues peacefully there at 6th and Chestnut for 15 minutes or so before a friend I came with tells me that the police are also lining up like this behind the crowd and looked to be preparing to squeeze us in. This was all just.. perplexing to me. Why, when they should be actively working to rebuild community trust, were they doing this weird posturing. It almost felt like just a photo op for their riot brigade. After 30 minutes or so of the cops lining up this way, the tension even seemed to die a little bit and the crowd was in a bit of a lull.

The whole time I’m thinking, this is a strange flex by the cops here, but assuming this protest keeps this tone, they’re just gonna stand around like this. Silly me.

*The first round of tear gas was so sudden, and wasn’t preceded by any commands to disperse or violence or chaos, that amidst this human stampede and the plumes of smoke, I thought they’d just let off some smoke canisters to disperse the crowd, which I thought on its own would’ve been wildly inappropriate. It was only as I noticed that everyone around me was choking and gagging and crying that they’d actually just tear gassed this whole crowd. And not only did they gas us, they herded the entire crowd to one intersection, waited til just about everyone had gathered there, and only then did they attack. It appeared to be nothing short of a war effort. *

Okay, if you thought a bunch of riot police herding peaceful protestors into an intersection and launching a coordinated tear gas assault was wild, put on a helmet and grab your favorite beverage, it’s only just begun. As you can imagine, sudden explosions into a crowd of at least 1,000 causes some serious chaos, and most people sprinted away since.. you know.. they were choking on tear gas.

The police had set up these barrier lines, riot cops with their shields, these big armored SWAT trucks that I honestly don’t even understand why LMPD needs one nvm 20 of them to begin with. They’d set up all these lines prior to firing their first shots, took ‘em a solid half hour to get in position, just as a military force would do for a tactical siege.

Myself and only 2 other people I saw in the entire crowd had immunity to the tear gas, so my need to retreat was a lot lesser than most, and I was just so shocked by what I’d just witnessed that I stood there a few minutes taking it all in. And at this time, if you’re familiar with downtown Louisville, there’s a grassy courtyard across from the courthouse, and because of the way the police lines were set up, across it to the northeast was the only path of retreat. To my absolute surprise, LMPD continued to hurl tear gas into the courtyard at fleeing protestors.

There was really only one way for everyone to go, which would be towards 5th & Jefferson. Guess who was waiting? A surprise line of riot police that’d previously been hidden to us by the Hillyard Lyons building. Because I didn’t have to retreat as quickly, it took me 5 minutes or so to get over there. Along the way I saw these war zone images, stunned crying people dousing themselves in milk and saline solution and water. There’s a metaphor with privilege to be had here about how lucky I felt to have a gas mask on but let’s not get into that.

By the time I got to this intersection, the remaining protestors had again gathered in front of the police line. Tension was obviously much higher now and people were yelling at the cops and such, but surprisingly, what a good majority of the protestors did was kneel directly in front of the riot line and put their hands in the air. You can’t get much more peaceful. Even after they’d attacked us once, nobody was breaking windows, nobody was violent. Peaceful protest had resumed, just much more intensely.

5th & Jefferson (I was honestly pretty disoriented so I can’t say for sure but I think that’s where we were) then becomes the epicenter, and we see what had happened at the first incident start to swell up again. The cops pinch in the protestors with riot police on 3 sides of us, they’re moving those big SWAT trucks into position, flanking like a military operation. It begs the question: if dispersion was ever the goal, why did you cut off the retreat paths? More on that in a second.

So this builds at this new spot for another 20 minutes, peaceful all the while, as the cops keep moving into position. I’m standing on, again I’m pretty sure but not totally, 5th street, on the north side of Jefferson now. The riot police are positioned on all sides of the protest. I had a moment of naivety where I thought, okay, maybe something happened back there that I didn’t see that warranted the gassing. It was continuing peacefully and again I think we were all kind of lulled into this idea that if we weren’t violent, they wouldn’t be, though they just had been.

*Where I was standing, there was a large concrete sign just behind me. I saw protestors kind of scurry out from behind it and behind me, and looked to see what was going on. A small group of cops had snuck in behind us and set non-projectile tear gas canisters behind the sign. As they began to fog and people began to feel it, BOOM. The riot cops threw a flash bang grenade just over the heads of the knelt, peaceful protestors along Jefferson. *

This paragraph is the kicker. I hope someone else saw or noticed this, yet because of my mask I worry I’m the only one who did. Recall that the police had lined off all paths of retreat but one, which was to go north on 5th street. So of course, after this timed ambush, people are fleeing up 5th, choking again on their second round of tear gas, tripping over each other. I wouldn’t say calmly but, clearly I was able to watch this unfold, because I was about the only person who could see. Parked in the middle of 5th street, along the only path of retreat, was one of those blacked out armored SWAT trucks. It was hiding in wait. As this mass of confused, gassed, panicked people flow by it, I see the passenger door crack open, and a projectile tear gas grenade slips out and onto the ground at the feet of fleeing protestors. Nobody was aggressing the truck, they were already reeling from being fuckin tear gassed again. It was malicious, and unnecessary, and planned, and it served one purpose: cause chaos. The panicked crowd didn’t know where the new canisters were coming from, because they were coming from amongst us. They bombed the path of retreat like a war adversary. They never wanted people to disperse; they wanted to cause a riot.

Even after the first gassing, the rioting didn’t begin. Even after the second, it didn’t. Even after THIS incident, where they once more cornered and ambushed us, the rioting didn’t begin.

This continues on similarly at a third location, the protest builds back up, with increased intensity, because now it’s also a protest against the response to the protest. At this point I was incensed. It became clear to me that the police were tactically funneling the protest wherever they wanted it to be, letting people realize that’s where it’d moved to, then mercilessly gassing it once they got into position. After the third such incident, I felt that I was too angry and upset to avoid putting myself in position to be executed by the police, which they clearly wanted someone to do, and I have a daughter, so I left. I can’t attest to what happened next and never saw the fires start or the windows break. But I can say very definitively that everything that happened was by the design of the LMPD, and there’s no plausible deniability on their part. I watched them ambush us. I watched them cut off and attack our retreat. Their only goals were to start a riot and inflict harm on the city, which they achieved.”

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