Keep America Beautiful (KAB), a large non-profit with corporate sponsors like H&M, PepsiCo, and McDonalds, began a program in 2007 called Graffiti Hurts. They even offer grants upwards of USD 2,000 to local governments and police departments for fighting Street Art. Their slogan? “We keep America beautiful so Americans can do beautiful things.” Now, the non-profit is conveniently silent on which Americans are given the right to create those “beautiful things?” And, at whose expense?
The nation's inability to transform the 1973 ruling into a legislation was bad enough, but even worse is the effect the overruling has had on the state of women rights in the United States, almost five decades later.
The nation hasn't flinched while exercising a self-professed moral right to police the rest of the world even formulate state-funded studies to evaluate the extent and reach of women rights across the globe, even as its own lot is affected directly and drastically.