The article “the history of American graffiti” by PBS News Hours talks about how graffiti started around 1970s in America. It also talks about how graffiti went from this act that was forbidden to do around the city to something that now has its own museum. Also in this article, it talks about how young people started graffiti originating from a high school guy trying to get a girl. In an article called “ New York City’s War on Graffiti”, Adam Mansbach writes “those stakes become clearer when one examines law enforcement’s public profiling of graffiti writers. Thy were described as “black, brown, or other, in that order,” and vilified as sociopaths, drug addicts and monsters.”. He also goes on talking about how “the War on Graffiti turned misdemeanors into felonies, community service into jail time” and I believe that it's only because it was in those communities that African-American and Latinos live. In America, whites have always have had privileges unlike others. When it comes to graffiti, people always think of a certain race when they see it, but they mind never goes to white people because they believe that they are better than the other …show more content…
But creating more graffiti could be a good thing for the people or a bad thing for the community. By creating more graffiti, they are not only expressing themselves, but these people get a chance to take this passion into something that they can do for the rest of the lives. In an article by Jareen Imam, they write “Movements such as GreenGraffiti, which uses pressurized water to leave behind clean messages and images on the streets of New York, or the increasing use of commercial graffiti, where street artists are hired to create graffiti-based advertisements in cities such as London, Paris, New York and Atlanta, also shine light on the increasing commercialism of graffiti.” Even though the graffiti is illegal, it never stopped people from doing it, but it has become something that is illegal to something that people get paid for doing and having their work in galleries. But if these African-Americans keep creating more illegal graffiti in their communities, it will not only make their communities look bad and dirty, but if they get caught, they could spend