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# Santa Monica Ditch creepy mural
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-ditch-creepy-mural-editor/
- Published: 2007-03-26T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:18:12.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Graciella Flores*

I’ve lived here in Santa Monica a long time and raised my children here and I couldn’t do that if my apartment’s rent wasn’t affordable because of rent control. The reason I’m writing about this is the new Santa Monica affordable housing building at the corner of 26th Street and Santa Monica Boulevard. I think the City is doing a good thing by building many apartments that families can afford because rents for other apartments are high. But, what I don’t like about this building is the picture painted on the side of the building. It just shows a Caucasian-American woman swimming in the ocean with a Caucasian-American man staring at her. I think that is creepy, but I also protest that the painting doesn’t show the whole culture of Santa Monica. Where are the women, children and men of color? The painting is disrespectful to women and to the people of color who live here. This city is supposed to be about including all peoples, but that doesn’t seem to be true on this city building. The city should make the painting represent all of Santa Monica and include people of color in the picture.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 26, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/032607.pdf?ref=smdp.com)