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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Then the next step will be to delete the name of George Washington school. I’m sure these idiots are shocked, just shocked, that liberal San Francisco, has a school named for George Washington.
Was the mural a WPA project? If so, destroying it would be an insult to FDR.
It was created to show the wrongs of America and it dies a PC death
they need an environmental impact report to paint a wall.
How ridiculous. Just tell the kids they can paint all the graffiti they want on the wall and they will save a bundle.
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.
Uh, those costs? Total BS. Calif***ed in the head ping. Thanks yesthatjallen.
Irony that democrats got the minorities to erase their own history and children for the future.
I found Waldo
[[[Painting over the mural would cost at least $600,000, with the majority of the cost in producing an environmental impact report.]]]
Bureaucracy in action.
Leave it there-save the money.
Crookedness in action.
It says in the article “there is a dead native American”, I can see just in the picture here that it appears there is a dead Revolutionary soldier (upper left), funny no mention of that - just the picture of a slave and dead native American. I suppose a dead Revolutionary soldier is just fine for the kids to see.
The tax payers get to pay for this nonsense. I would think that they would have something to say about it.
Can’t see anything even a leftest freak could find offensive.
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Eventually replacing Old Glory is certainly on their list.
The idiot taxpayer did have something to say about this. They're the ones who voted these ass-clowns onto the city school board in the first place!
Is it any wonder that there has been a major migration of white, heterosexual couples with children from this 3rd world cesspool?
The mural was apparently made out of asbestos and radioactive pigments.
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