Community Leaders Start Petition After Paul Feiner Sends Email To Remove Min. Farrakhan From Mural
Over the course of a week or so, Black Westchester has received a plethora or calls, emails and messages about the controversy over Minister Louis Farrakhan’s image on the Manhattan Avenue Mural in the Fairview section of Greenburgh. What should have been a historic celebration of Black History and Black protest has become controversial. We’ve talked to the mural organizer, the artists, the town supervisor, a councilmember and a few residents and one thing is for certain everyone is not on the same page or even being told or telling the same story. Dr. Bob and I personally visited the mural the evening of August 2nd and saw the mural in progress and interviewed Cliff and a few of the artists. With the Congressional election going on, I hadn’t been able to totally focus on this. Wednesday, while I planned to rest and do nothing all day, the phone kept ringing to the point where it became apparent I couldn’t not at least look into what is really going on. We have been working diligently all day, speaking to everyone to try to bring you answers, but there more we look into it, we were left with more questions than [...]
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Over the course of a week or so, Black Westchester has received a plethora or calls, emails and messages about the controversy over Minister Louis Farrakhan’s image on the Manhattan Avenue Mural in the Fairview section of Greenburgh. What should have been a historic celebration of Black History and Black protest has become controversial. We’ve talked to the mural organizer, the artists, the town supervisor, a councilmember and a few residents and one thing is for certain everyone is not on the same page or even being told or telling the same story. Dr. Bob and I personally visited the mural the evening of August 2nd and saw the mural in progress and interviewed Cliff and a few of the artists. With the Congressional election going on, I hadn’t been able to totally focus on this. Wednesday, while I planned to rest and do nothing all day, the phone kept ringing to the point where it became apparent I couldn’t not at least look into what is really going on. We have been working diligently all day, speaking to everyone to try to bring you answers, but there more we look into it, we were left with more questions than [...]
