by Julia Kott 
Posters, street art and murals continue to pop-up around the city in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the signs in Greenpoint have their own local flavor.
A row of posters plastered on wooden boards near McGolrick Park draws a connection between Black Lives Matter and the 1980’s Solidarity movement in Poland.
At the top of the poster, the red logo for “Solidarność” (meaning solidarity in Polish) references the 1980’s anti-authoritarian…
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Interesting manipulation. Solidarity was an anti-communist and anti-socialist movement. BLM activists on the other hand are socialists (Sanders, redistribution of goods, censorship, fighting opposing ideas and freedom of speech, etc). Solidarity fought ideas shared by BLM movement. And there was no blacks in Solidarity. BLM: Please keep your hand of that symbol. It is not yours. You disrespect my father who was a Solidarity activist and risk his life to abolish socialist system.
Julia, some of us in Greenpoint know exactly what Stanisław envisions in his little head when he says “not this, this is not good.” The “this” he envisions are black people and people of color, the “them”. Dr. Mazurek, Stanisław, and JJ, face your racist self and think not too deeply, as to why you want our hands off this symbol of solidarity to belong only to white Poles like yourself. You know why, it’s because you think you are better because you are white. Be aware that people risk their lives for equality, freedom, and dignity throughout the world, and when good people stand together for basic human rights and dignity, it’s called solidarity, or in your language, solidarność. Solidarity with a movement for black and brown lives to be treated equally with whites is not a “class” movement in the US. As Wojtkowski says, “if Solidarity managed to fight communism, Black Lives Matter also has a chance.” Another thing, it’s time to read the Bible, and truly, really truly understand the words of Jesus Christ.