Posted on 05/02/2019 11:23:05 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
A San Francisco school district may remove an 83-year-old mural of President George Washington from, ironically, George Washington High School because it “traumatizes students and community members.”
The work of artist Victor Arnautoff, a communist, may no longer be progressive enough for “Fog City.” His 13 panels for the high school, created in 1936, have been deemed problematic by the San Francisco Unified School District.
Officials say some the artist’s historical depictions are offensive to Native Americans and blacks.
Laura Dudnick, a spokeswoman for the district, told educational watchdog the College Fix via email Thursday that Mr. Arnautoff’s work was debated by a “‘Reflection and Action Working Group’ that was comprised of members of the local Native American community, students, school representatives, district representatives, local artists, and historians.”
Four public meetings were held on the matter between December 2018 and February 2019.
The group claims the mural “glorifies slavery, genocide, colonization, manifest destiny, white supremacy, oppression, etc.,” the Richmond District Blog recently reported.
“At its conclusion, the group voted and the majority recommended that the ‘Life of Washington’ mural be archived and removed because the mural does not represent SFUSD values...
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That’s one of the dumbest things I’ve heard but liberals are dumb sh*ts anyway so no surprise there..
America’s very own red guards are launching a cultural revolution. The little communists are all grown up now.
Their revolution continues and people just let it happen.
Yup. And anyone who wants to make America great again by their twisted definition wants to bring back Jim Crow and even slavery.
Britain did ban chattel slavery in 1776. One would have expected slave owning founder figures like Jefferson to have written about it if that was a significant issue to them.
Still, it’s to wonder... what if the declaration of independence had waited until 1777, and the new nation went into it sans chattel slavery. It did bring a curse as the institution of forced domination that was required to make chattel slavery work was counter to the loving voluntarism of the New Testament.
Amen, Jim Robinson!
They also need to search students trying to enter the building and relieve them of all portraits of Washington, like on dollar bills or quarters, though I assume most of them have only credit cards.
LOL, there are people out there who’ll believe anything.
What this does raise the question of, is this.
In our founding, there was a low percentage of the populace that actually gave a fig about independence. I believe it was less than 30%, but someone can correct me.
Today we have a greater number who wish to destroy our nation. At least it sure seems like that.
I think we take this underground Leftist network to lightly.
We need to stand up to these thugs in every quarter.
I agree...
Any MAGA that had that in it would have maggots.
The problem with modern secular liberalism is that it has simply substituted a new Massa for an old Massa. Political fealty has replaced the taskmaster.
glorifies slavery, genocide, colonization, manifest destiny, white supremacy, oppression. They want, socialism communism, facism, and islams sharia law in its place.......... funny the rats taught them well
There is, at least until recently, a series of Mao portraits at the Columbia museum of art in SC.
Those showed up in a museum underwriter spot.
It irked me.
Hating devil A, they rush into the arms of devil B.
Is that the famous mural of Washington dressed as an Aztec priest cutting hearts from living victims?
Let them be traumatized.
Frankly, their idiocy traumatizes everyone around them.
Everything that suggests there was a past that may not positively support the Progressivist vision must be expunged. Leftists and Mohammedans are rather similar in this way. The Past is the deadly enemy of the Vision. Those who do not know History can be convinced of anything.
Soon to be replaced with Mural’s of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro,. true humanitarians.
I told you they wouldn’t stop at Columbus. They moved from Columbus to the very icon of this country. Perhaps there should have been a mural depicting screaming bearded savages slicing White necks? then they wouldn’t have been triggered.
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