A Form of Resistance

There is another type of conscious that resists, a way to actually create and have visuals for the people. It is not the little signs that government paint on capitalistic brand new signs like the stop, yield, Xing cross, no parking, welcome to Wal-Mart, or other type of street signs and corporations. The streets are talking to each other and a way to bring back unity amongst black, Latinos and white people. That is graffiti, an old medium that represented the masses of what their culture was and how they interact with each other. Graffiti can be any form of lettering that emphasizes the use of colors and imagination of the artist. As being part of the four elements in hip hop. Music has always supported graffiti on underground levels as long as media represents on real self-empower motivation. Graffiti has in fact liberated people that there is no hope involve in gangs like PHIB, a graffiti artist, said “I liked the independence of non-gang graffiti, doing it when and how I liked. I feel sad for my friends that stayed in that life and aren’t doing anything with their lives except being in and out of jail. Some of them look at me and realize I made the right decision to leave that behind. Graffiti has the potential to be taken in a direction that better benefits yourself and your family” (Grody, 210).

Graff as a part of resistance. I would consider this as street art, many might have a different approach about graffiti but know that an idea becomes a piece. Graff when it started to have color, transform from the 60s. graff came way before there were styles in graff. The problem now is that on this lands, there are buildings, walls made of bricks cement and laws. Expressing your thoughs are a major part of your life, sort of like your imagination on a wall where people can analyze and admire your work. Today, graffiti is known as vandalism, as a waste of creativity to "artist" that prefer oil painting, acrylic painting or murals but what they dont understand is that this feeling of expression comes from a social change to political views in our communities. African Americans learn this from 2 centuries ago to present. Pioneers that still exist today gather up and do a pieces on a wall with the intention to build conscious and awareness to the masses like the unknown guy at the bottom of this writing...

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“tens of thousand of dollars… a youth offender’s probation remains open as long as a given fine remains unpaid — meaning that in some cases, the book is never closed, and youthful indiscretion can be converted to a lifelong adversarial ethic.” (VC reporter, Scolari).Graffiti is a start of a social movement where artist get together in black book sessions. These black book sessions consist of a gathering where artist exchange ideas and interact. Even as today’s policies attack youngsters, here at home the citations are illogical “a youth offender’s probation remains open as long as a given fine remains unpaid — meaning that in some cases, the book is never closed, and youthful indiscretion can be converted to a lifelong adversarial ethic” (Scolari).