I get that us old white guys cannot fully understand the Black experience. Does that mean that we shouldn't even try? Not saying this is the case in this instance though.
Definitely not - just for this particular thing it feels odd to me that the sign was built by a bunch of white people, designed by white people, commissioned by a white developer that says "this is greenwood"
There's a lot of talented black artists locally that could have designed and built the same thing, just don't understand why they weren't given the opportunity to do so in such a special location and saying that. Just feels odd to me.
The historical context of white developers wanting Greenwood for their own, especially after the massacre, to have a white developer place a sign like that feels inappropriate even with good intentions. Because that development isn't what Greenwood was, it's the white people's idea of 'this is greenwood' now.
I'd feel different if the developer had utilized either black artists or craftspeople to design, build, and install it