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Santa Clara County Courthouse Mural Is Racist, Advocates Say
San Jones Spotlight ^ | February 14, 2025 | Joyce Chu

Posted on 02/15/2025 1:34:50 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 02/15/2025 1:34:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Racist? No.

Fugly? Yes.


2 posted on 02/15/2025 1:41:43 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

Advocates day the mail is racist?

This means they are racists?


3 posted on 02/15/2025 1:42:31 PM PST by Celerity
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To: nickcarraway

fine, then depict them how they truly were, depict them cutting the heads off of defeated enemies and with their slaves they captured on raids of other tribes.


4 posted on 02/15/2025 1:44:02 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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Here’s an idea. Just post this sign next to the mural:

“If this mural offends you, don’t look at it.”


5 posted on 02/15/2025 1:44:04 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: BenLurkin

Let’s rewrite history.


6 posted on 02/15/2025 1:45:38 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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“The portrayal of our ancestors as scantily clad and kneeling before those religious clerics who enslaved us glosses over the reality of our existence...

I suppose they were all wearing three-piece suits back in the day.

The mural itself looks pretty innocuous.

7 posted on 02/15/2025 1:46:27 PM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: nickcarraway

Their kind see racism in cotton balls or Q-tips.


8 posted on 02/15/2025 1:46:38 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: BenLurkin

LOL! An honest appraisal. Looks like it was done by a high school art student.


9 posted on 02/15/2025 1:47:14 PM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s simplistic; sort of a mid-century vintage art from an encyclopedia.

Why does it omit the indigenous people doing human sacrifice?


10 posted on 02/15/2025 1:48:16 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: PhiloBedo

I DO NOT REMEMBER ANY SHIPS LANDING AT SANTA CLARA.


11 posted on 02/15/2025 1:49:57 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: nickcarraway

yeah and take down those rainbow flags which many of us feel are very offensive.


12 posted on 02/15/2025 1:50:56 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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RE: depict them cutting the heads off of defeated enemies and with their slaves they captured....

They captured whites as slaves, too.

I remember an interlibrary loan book a faculty member at my university borrowed. It was the memoir of a white girl captured from her family as it was raided and she was forced to be one of the slaves of the “native Americans.” She was belittled and mistreated. She had one shoe and one bare foot as she was forced to walk over land with the animals as the captors rode in wagons on their long trips.

Slavery is supposed to be wrong.

How about some reparations?


13 posted on 02/15/2025 1:52:07 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: nickcarraway

One ugly mural....wonder who did it and how much they got paid. I’m betting a Native American did it...since that appears to be the theme


14 posted on 02/15/2025 1:55:36 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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“The Confederate flag is a historical piece of work, and we don’t fly that,” he told San José Spotlight.

And yet he doesn’t see any thing wrong with THAT statement...


15 posted on 02/15/2025 1:56:26 PM PST by tet68
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It took 64 years before someone determined the mural was offensive?

Can we review this for 64 years? I wouldn't want to make any snap judgements.

16 posted on 02/15/2025 2:00:09 PM PST by mcenedo (lying liberal media, our most dangerous and powerful enemy)
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To: nickcarraway; spirited irish; rlmorel; rodguy911
Wonderful art work: Joseph Jacinto Mora Sold at Auction Prices

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Jo Mora's (1876-1947) whimsical map of the Grand Canyon, one of Mora's earliest maps from 1931.

This bright and colorful pictorial map provides a detailed look at the Grand Canyon, with marvelous vignettes scattered throughout the image. Joseph (Jo) Mora was a Uruguayan-born American cartoonist and illustrator, a pioneer of the 20th century pictorial map.

The map shows Native American motifs and numerous small illustrations and humorous text, like an illustration of a large donkey statue with the text, 'Proposed Monument to the Canyon's Unsung Heroes - To be erected by popular subscription'. Published by Jo Mora Publications, Monterey California, 1957, 15 x 19.25 inches.

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Jo Mora Indians of North America Lithograph Print

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MORA, Jo (1876–1949). Yosemite. 1931 (1949 issue).

MORA, Jo (1876–1949). Yosemite. 1931 (1949 issue). Offset lithograph with a pictorial map of the National Park. The first printing of this map was in black and white in 1931.

Color printings were published in 1941 and 1949. This is the second color version, which included slight alterations including two men running from a skunk in place of the Coulterville Road sign at lower left of image. 19 x 15 ½”. Linen backed


17 posted on 02/15/2025 2:01:10 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: nickcarraway

So every image with Native Americans are racist?


18 posted on 02/15/2025 2:16:11 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Ahhh...the good old days.


19 posted on 02/15/2025 2:16:37 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: nickcarraway

The portrayal of our ancestors as scantily clad and kneeling before those religious clerics who enslaved us glosses over the reality of our existence

Are you trying to say that did not happen?

If it did, stfu.


20 posted on 02/15/2025 2:19:53 PM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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