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Though obfuscated, the entirety of the film is latent in its title. American Graffiti was made at the tail-end of the Vietnam War but set in 1962, in Lucas's hometown of Modesto, California. Chronologically, it's the sixties but culturally, it's still a world of candied tones, cherry Cokes, and big-finned Impalas. (The real sixties began in 1965.) That's the "America" of American Graffiti. And what of the graffiti? In its original sense, graffiti were illicit inscriptions on ancient walls. Found in the Roman catacombs and Pompeii, they were scratched-out unofficial messages. Though early messages were mostly "For a Good Time Call Restitutus" variety, in contemporary graffiti the meaning is found less in what is written, but in the impulse to write it. Graffiti is our irrepressible urge toward expression, and through expression, existence. That's the "Graffiti" of American Graffiti.

The well-intended impulse to bury such monuments, la Mayor Landrieu, or to preserve them as museum artifacts, as some have proposed, is analogous to the misguided impulse to celebrate them. Thinking of the memorials and such graffiti together, removal has the effect of hiding black bodies and black trauma from public view.

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Yes, these monuments have a painful, even traumatic impact on many viewers; they represent a celebration of violence and white supremacy. But Black Lives Matter graffiti on a monument does more to advance public healing and understanding than no monument at all.

The Confederate Memorial, still intact at this writing, should be left alone, along with its graffiti: This does not represent capitulation to those who would celebrate the Confederacy, but rather an acknowledgment of the messy and violent histories embodied in such sites which will always defy efforts at either consecration or cleanup. 006ab0faaa