Posted on 07/05/2019 7:02:09 AM PDT by Twotone
The San Francisco School Board last week authorized $600,000 in spending to destroy a mural depicting George Washington at a high school named for him.
“It’s rude and disrespectful to people’s cultures,” a junior at the school told the San Francisco Chronicle. The school board president agrees. “I think the images are really harmful,” Stevon Cook explains. “But I do understand the sensitivity about it being art. It’s a difficult position to be in.” The board’s vice president, Mark Sanchez, maintains, “Painting it over represents not only a symbolic fresh start, but a real fresh start.”
The censorship follows the removal of an “Early Days” statue, which depicted an American Indian laying at the feet of a Spanish cowboy and Catholic missionary, outside the San Francisco Public Library in September. The city’s Historic Preservation Committee voted unanimously to remove it and the Arts Commission dubbed the 2,000-pound sculpture “disrespectful, misleading, and racist” in unanimously voting to censor it. The school board similarly found no opposition in its ranks in voting to paint over the Washington mural—despite a New Deal program funding it, a Communist artist painting it, and its message in depicting slavery and a dead Indian as clearly critical of Washington.
The Free Speech Movement called the Bay Area home in the 1960s and a decade earlier Allen Ginsberg published his racy poetry through the City Lights bookstore’s publishing arm. A place that once imagined itself as a safe harbor from censors now looks to Savonarola and Mullah Muhammad Omar as guides. Unsurprisingly, Google, Twitter, and other tech companies headquartered in the area follow, and lead, the intolerant zeitgeist.
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American Talibans at work - Cultural genocide.
No word as to whether the increased self esteem of the almost all black student body improved academic achievement
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Why yes as a matter of fact(HA HA) the entire student body got haircuts, started wearing ties and pants with belts around waist, GPA rose rapidly, truancy tanked, ALL seniors qualified for a major college and most going to Med School, to honor the Doctor whose name they now ‘play under’.
Meanwhile, if you get to New York, specifically around Brooklyn, I have a cousin that wants to sell you a bridge.
If they are bothered by a mural depicting George Washington, they should leave and surrender their passport and renounce their citizenship at the US embassy as soon as they arrive at their new country.
(P.S. - wonder who’s getting to hold the remaining $599,850?)
Environmental studies of the damage the paint might do, so I’ve read.
In Kali, it costs a lot more to do the study than the cost of a bucket of paint.
They are doing the same thing to historic murals in Chicago Public Schools. Standard communist practice.
***IIRC, “we” started paying attention to brats back when the baby boomers started rioting in the streets.***
You are correct. Back then, there were so many Baby Boomers, (I am one) that they simply overwhelmed the educational institutions.
One writer put it as “A lump going through a snake.”
It was supposed to pass on through, but it seems to be getting worse.
The next step will be to change the name of George Washington school
The democrat comunist party is erasing our history!
Their revolution continues
They are destroying our history and trying to rewrite it in their own current version of what they want people to see.
The democrat comunist party is erasing our history!
The former democrat party is taking their orders from the CPUSA. The communists didn’t run a candidate in 2008 or 2012. They didn’t need to. The dims adopted their ideas.
Call them the San Francisco Taliban.
Take the $600k from the teachers’ pensions if they are so adamant that it be removed. Make them pay for its renoval.
It’s a union job
And they have to scrub the historical record:
Destroy old yearbooks...
Snuff the alumni...
I’d love to see these folks pull out there wallets and empty their pockets. They probably aren’t shy about carrying quarters and dollar bills. Perhaps they should be required to go through life carrying the Sacajawea coins for that poor woman of color deceived into furthering white male European genocide.
These communist twits will learn that they cannot erase history
The democrat comunist party is erasing our history!
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Perhaps they are trying to erase their own history. By their own rules, the Democrat party should be erased from history. It was their party who fought a war to “protect” the institution of slavery. Hard to forget that.
Good point.
The dims ran the south during the days of slavery.
Roosevelt set concentration camps for the Japanese.
Johnson got us into the Vietnam war.
Clinton brought us Hillarycare, eventually passed into law as obamacare. And introduced the term Arkancide.
Obama’s actions would fill volumes on how he worked to destroy this country.
Images are no longer just "offensive"; they're "harmful".
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