A Bristol group called Appropriate Media is outraged by gentrification-causing graffiti writers. So much so that they’re actually protesting. The anonymous group splashed washable red paint on a Banksy mural entitled “The Mild Mild West” over the weekend, and nobody understands what they want.
Graffiti artists are the performing spray-can monkeys for gentrification. In collusion with property developers, they paint deprived areas bright colours to indicate the latest funky inner city area ripe for regeneration. Pushing out low income families in their wake, to be replaced by middle class metrosexuals with their urban art collections.
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