Posted on 07/01/2019 3:37:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The San Francisco school board unanimously voted Tuesday to destroy a controversial school mural featuring slaves and a dead Native American, saying the removal equates to necessary reparations for historic wrongs.
The board voted to paint over the mural at Washington High School but added a caveat, leaving the door open to the possibility of obscuring the mural with panels if painting it results in long delays from legal challenges or other issues.
The preference, however, is to destroy it, board members said.
“It might be art and it can also be racist; it can be both,” said board member Alison Collins. “It’s not just about removing them from public view, it’s also about righting a wrong.”
Painting over the mural would cost at least $600,000, with the majority of the cost in producing an environmental impact report. In addition, supporters of the mural have vowed to sue if the board voted to destroy it and legal costs could add to the cost, district officials said.
Other options included covering the mural with panels, which would cost up to $825,000, or obscuring it with curtains, which would have cost up to $375,000.
“I don't want to go to court,” said board member Faauga Moliga, prior to the vote. “But if it comes down to it, then that’s what we have to do. I would like for these murals to be painted down.”
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Make the council-dorks pay for it!
The irony is the mural was painted by a devout Communist. He painted GW but also highlighted slaves and the cost Native Americans as the colonies and states pushed westward.
In blue state government bureaucracies, even social justice virtue-signaling is really expensive.
“I don’t want to go to court,” said board member Faauga Moliga, prior to the vote. “But if it comes down to it, then that’s what we have to do. I would like for these murals to be painted down.”
It’s ironic that the mural was done by a WPA artist who actually wanted to show the evils of America, and I believe he went back to the USSR. You’d think the wackos would like that.
this is what the nazis and commies do.....they destroy history, art, and the truth.....
Me either. These people have never seen a painting of American Indians?
I am supposedly 1/32 cherokee with family involved in the trail of tears yet I am baffled as to how this mural is offensive.
But if it needs painting over I could do it in a few days and it wouldn’t cost much. This is liberal California, right? Heck they could let some street artists to paint over it for free and make it hip and all. $600K? No wonder California is going broke.
Can’t see anything even a leftest freak could find offensive.
”… it’s also about righting a wrong.”"
How exactly is anybody compensated, or a wrong righted, by removing mural?
Are desperate Democrats somehow winning votes with politically correct hatred for mural?
Based on students(?) walking down stairs by mural, mural is evidently no competition for smart phone.
To paint a section of wall next to one flight of stairs?
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summary: leftists eating leftists
And I would like the entire school board to lose their citizenship & to be dropped off in Syria.
You need an environmental impact report for a couple of coats of paint inside a building?
I would be willing to go to San Francisco and paint it over a weekend for only $300,000!
A mural depicting piles of human waste would be an appropriate replacement.
“Cerebral Cortex is made up of tightly packed neurons and is the wrinkly, outermost layer that surrounds the brain. It is also responsible for higher thought”
Cortex cancer continues to attack the administrations of el/hi schools and universities.
Maybe they could get the folks who blew up the giant Bamiyan statues to come blow up the mural.
Yes! Exactly.
Or it could be historical. (Note: Not hysterical)
I haven’t seen the mural, but could it actually depict history?
I would think that people who hated slavery and the perceived wrongs done to Native Americans, would want the deeds heralded.
The Left is just too stupid for words.
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