Soon, the only allowed President in paintings will be OBAMA
Posted on 07/05/2019 1:21:37 PM PDT by Syncro
San Francisco will spend up to $600,000 to paint over historical artwork at a public school depicting the life of George Washington, a mural once seen as educational and innovative but now criticized as racist and degrading for its depiction of black and Native American people.
The “Life of Washington” was painted by Victor Arnautoff, one of the foremost muralists in the San Francisco area during the Depression. The San Francisco School Board’s decision to paint over the 83-year-old mural is prompting some to worry that other artwork from the so-called New Deal era could face a similar fate because of changing sensitivities.
In addition to depicting Washington as a soldier, surveyor and statesman, the 13-panel, 1,600-sqaure foot mural at George Washington High School contains images of white pioneers standing over the body of a Native American and slaves working at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.
The board’s decision last week comes at a time when the legacies of Washington and other historical figures who owned slaves are being re-examined. Some cities have changed the names of streets and buildings named after slave owners.
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“We on the left ought to welcome the honest portrayal,” Walker said, adding that destroying a piece of art “is the worst way we can deal with historic malfeasance, historic evils.”
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Lope Yap, Jr., vice president of the Washington High School Alumni Association and a 1970 graduates, disagreed, saying when he was a student and saw the mural he was “awed by the subtle ways Arnautoff was able to critique American history.” He said the depictions are “treasures, priceless art” and painting it over is tantamount to pretending the history depicted never happened.
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In that case, shouldn’t they be painting over almost that whole leftard city ?
Offensive leftist politics and offensive smells/messes (’San Fran Shithole’) - there has been a massive resurgence of sanitation-related diseases there.
Human feces, needles and bums lining the streets (and that’s just in the main transit hub where alot of tourists go). Hit the national news and hit them in the pocket book (touri$m), but only band-aid measures have been taken even after this long).
If you are thinking of going there (for anything) you might want to reconsider. (and wash your shoes in bleach if you ever have to set foot there)
It’s the government, I’m surprised they didn’t say a minimum of a million. I could do it for the cost of LASIK.
Trump should declare it a NAtional Heritage site.
Make it a felony to deface it..
So... when do WE get to start messing up their symbols???
Wake up San Francisco!
Is there a single person besides this Mark Sanchez character who believes this is a good idea? He’s the only one quoted who is for it. How did this get approved, and by whom?
Wait a sec. The mural was painted under a fed program and paid by the US. Tell them to GFY and if you destroy it we want the money back or someone in jail.
How about a dan white school. If they come up with a go fund me for that I will send money.
$600K?? Instead of worrying about a mural, perhaps they should consider picking up the trash and the poopiepiles in the streets & sidewalks. $600K could pick up a lot of poopie.
“...If you are thinking of going there (for anything) you might want to reconsider. (and wash your shoes in bleach if you ever have to set foot there)....”
There isn’t enough horses in all of Texas to drag me to that god-forsaken place.
Whotta buncha maroons.
[ San Francisco to spend over $600K to paint over George Washington mural some considered offensive ]
America: It was fun while it lasted.
Then came the Democrats / Social Justice Warriors / Revisionists / Progressives
[GEORGE ORWELL - “1984”]
Careful - talk like that could have you wind up on the nut-job conspiracy ping list. Like myself and a few fine folks....
I am soooooo stealing that one
In most normal parts of the country you could build a really nice house for $600k.
and to think that the money could’ve been spent to clean up the shit on their sidewalks and give those homeless people a few hot meals.
Ah well.. SF isn’t even part of the USA anymore anyway. They’ll probably replace the mural with one depicting the life of Che Guevara.
In our time of increasing insanity, ‘feelings’ have primacy. Thus if it “makes me feel bad” it is bad. If “I feel hate for it” it is hateful. If I “feel he is a bigot, racist, homophobe,” he is.
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