NAACP Attorney on EM Federal Lawsuit

[Wesley Mouch]

Correct you are. But that makes for boring news and really doesn't stir up any racial or political trouble. Where's the fun in that?????

No fun at all. And let me take a second to say that even though I found the NAACP guy to be a fool who is harming African-Americans -- he does have some valid points. I struggle as well with the issue here. I like bankruptcy precisely because it is dispassionate. City acts like fool. Citizens pay the price -- no matter what that is. If you want to pay a living wage, you have to live within your means. And we haven't. But this is somehow different, says my lily-white self. Art ownership by the DIA seems like a public trust. Its like the ground. It is part of what a city is. Its not chattel that has monetary value. But if I believe that, does that mean that others can make the same claims? Can the Charles Wright museum say that their contents and their building [[and their payroll) are also 'public trust'. What about Hart Plaza? Where does one stop?

In the meantime, I think the NAACP is onto something. This selling art is a conspiracy against the Hispanics. Banksy was small change. Rivera is the man.