Stones
This unusual graffiti appeared on the junction of the Ravenhill Road and the Albertbridge Road:
What does it mean? Lets have a look at the location of the graffiti on a streetmap:
This does not provide any kind of explanation. Lets have a look at the religious distribution map:
Herein lies a clue: a block of red is adjacent to a block of yellow. This indicates an interface area, where youths are more likely to indulge in recreational rioting. When there is a shortage of youths of one ethnicity for the other to throw bricks at, the recreational rioters practice their aim on moving vehicles or strangers. Thus, one such target has been prompted to write a message for the parents of the stone throwing children. This is an unusual and rare occurrence of content specific apolitical graffiti, and it shows that it's not about religion, it's about colour.
(Religious Divide map courtesy of www.irelandstory.com)
What does it mean? Lets have a look at the location of the graffiti on a streetmap:
This does not provide any kind of explanation. Lets have a look at the religious distribution map:
Herein lies a clue: a block of red is adjacent to a block of yellow. This indicates an interface area, where youths are more likely to indulge in recreational rioting. When there is a shortage of youths of one ethnicity for the other to throw bricks at, the recreational rioters practice their aim on moving vehicles or strangers. Thus, one such target has been prompted to write a message for the parents of the stone throwing children. This is an unusual and rare occurrence of content specific apolitical graffiti, and it shows that it's not about religion, it's about colour.
(Religious Divide map courtesy of www.irelandstory.com)
3 Comments:
It's great because on one hand, it's a responsible message: yet on the other, he totally undermines his own authority by using the socially irresponsible medium of graffiti.
Still, best local graffiti I've seen since the "what's so funny about peace, love and understanding" on the Garvaghy Road, Portadown.
Why? is the question mark where it is
I? don't know.
To be honest, the standard of grammar in Belfast graffiti is shocking.
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