{"id":131197,"date":"2020-06-09T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/the-latest-work-of-banksy-pays-homage-to-george-floyd\/"},"modified":"2020-06-09T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:40:53","slug":"the-latest-work-of-banksy-pays-homage-to-george-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/the-latest-work-of-banksy-pays-homage-to-george-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest work of Banksy pays homage to George Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Banksy is back on instagram with a work against racism, accompanied by a message of support for the anti-racist movement <a href=\"\/\/blacklivesmatter.com\">Black Lives Matter<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81847 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/waitfashion-banksy-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"700\" data-id=\"81847\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;At first I thought I should just shut up and listen to black people about this issue. But why would I do that? It&#8217;s not their problem.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While protests demanding justice are continuing all over the world, artists are also not just watching, and have their say; among these, the street artist <a href=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/banksy\/\"><strong>Banksy<\/strong><\/a> pays tribute to <a href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killing_of_George_Floyd\"><strong>George Floyd<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0through his only social channel, with the publication of <strong>three images<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBFyA8iM15Y\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">Visualizza questo post su Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; 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text-decoration: none;\" href=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBFyA8iM15Y\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Un post condiviso da Banksy (@banksy)<\/a> in data: <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2020-06-06T10:30:06+00:00\">6 Giu 2020 alle ore 3:30 PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>first<\/strong> one\u00a0shows a<strong> detail<\/strong> of the work: a framed photograph of a face wrapped in black and a lit candle.<br \/>\nIn the <strong>second<\/strong>, the work is revealed in its entirety by showing the commemorative candle that burns the <strong>American flag<\/strong>, a symbol of the riots that are &#8220;<strong>setting fire<\/strong>&#8221; to the State.<br \/>\nIn the<strong> third<\/strong> screen, <strong>Banksy<\/strong> explains his motivations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This faulty system is making their life a misery, but it&#8217;s not their job to fix it. This is a white problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81851 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/waitfashion-banksy-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1112\" data-id=\"81851\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read also<a href=\"\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/brands-response-to-george-floyd-murder-black-lives-matter\/\"> how brand response to George Floyd murder<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banksy is back on instagram with a work against racism, accompanied by a message of support for the anti-racist movement Black Lives Matter. &#8220;At first I thought I should just shut up and listen to black people about this issue. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69434,5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131197"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=131197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}