Why was there a "Saint" George Floyd Mural in Kabul?!“The Taliban have started painting over murals left behind from the American occupation,” highlighted one Twitter users. “Here they paint over one mural depicting St George Floyd and replace it with proclamations of victory.”
Oh FFS!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... ry-slogans
"The murals addressed everything from the killing of George Floyd in the US and the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran, to the signing of the US-Taliban agreement towards peace and murder of a Japanese aid worker”...
The murals were created by a group called Artlords, members of which had covered Kabul with the images, some of which carried social justice messages and amplified women’s rights issues, in the eight years before the Taliban took control.
The original aim of the group, according to its website, was “to pave the way for social transformation and behavioural change”[/quote]
So the only silver lining out of Afghanistan is:
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We have some murals scattered around the US that could use a good painting over as well.