There was some push back, but ultimately the picture was removed.
BTW, Rochester is one of the "poorest" cities in America, and a HS grad rate under 40%. Priorities don't ya know.
Posted on 01/17/2017 9:50:07 AM PST by kevcol
A controversial painting depicting police officers as pigs has been permanently removed from the Capitol complex.
The office of Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., — a former sheriff who officially appealed to the Architect of the Capitol that the painting be removed — confirmed to the Washington Examiner that it was taken down for good on Tuesday.
The painting, done by a black Missouri teenager, was one of hundreds of winners of the Congressional Art Competition. Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., hung it in the tunnel leading from the Cannon building to the Capitol complex.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
REP. CLAY had an opportunity to return the painting to the artist citing dishonoring authority as the reason it was returned.
Apparently CLAY must agree with the artist’s worldview.
Who cares? There’s an invasion of illegals, some of whom are terrorists, pouring into this country, and someone gives a crap about a painting?
“If a white teen had submitted a painting insulting to the black community I wonder how long it would have taken to get it down? My guess? Minutes.”
Know what it would have been down in minutes? Because the black lives matter folks would have stormed in, torn it down, and then rioted for several days pillaging and plundering and burning things up to be 100% sure that horrible painting, or any copies, had been destroyed.
Oops, meant know WHY it would have been down in minutes...
I think it is a compliment.
It is a black boy who has a big.....
....rooster.
How long did they have to search before they found it?
Hundreds? What happened to winners and losers where winners are something like gold, silver, bronze? This amounts to participation awards.
110 years and they’re still looking.
Who cares? you ask. Well isn’t this all part and parcel of the “...invasion of illegals, some of whom are terrorists, pouring into this country,...”?
I will answer that - Yes. It is directly related to hatred of America and our values and the invasion of illegals, some of whom are terrorists, pouring into this country is not some different thing.
He had to win an ugly contest before he could be elected a Demonrat.
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