Authored by Jennifer Kabbany via The College Fix,
There’s plans in the works to cover a mural of George Washington from the halls of George Washington High School in San Francisco due to complaints that it’s offensive and demeaning to Native Americans and African Americans.
The San Francisco school board is expected to decide next week whether to cover the image or paint over it, but there’s no plans among top officials to leave the imagery in the open for students to view, according to several Bay Area news reports.
Board members appear to agree with a working group’s determination that the mural “traumatizes students and community members.” The “Life of Washington” mural, which consists of 13 panels, was painted in 1936. One of the images involves Washington gesturing toward a group of explorers who are walking by the body of a presumably deceased Native American. Another depicts Washington next to several slaves performing various types of manual labor.
At a June 18 special meeting to consider the controversial paintings, “not one school board member advocated to keep the mural,” reports SF Weekly.
“Instead, Commissioners Gabriela Lopez, Alison Collins, Stevon Cook, and Mark Sanchez commented on how emotionally draining it was to hear — and have other rehash for them — the pain they know firsthand comes from violent, demeaning imagery like this.”
The three options before the board are to obscure the mural with curtains, create acoustic panels to cover it up, or paint over it; each option would costs anywhere from 300,000 to $800,000 to complete, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
District spokeswoman Gentle Blythe told the Chronicle the mural is “huge and complicated,” and that even though it consists of only a couple of controversial images the board’s decision will impact the entire fresco.
About 100 people packed the recent school board meeting to weigh in on the issue, many of whom spoke against covering the mural up.
“We should be teaching about the mural and what it means. I’m half native American. I have no problem with the mural. It depicts what happened,” said one mural proponent, reports FOX KTVU 2.
Writing in National Review, James Sutton reports the mural was never really a bother at the high school.
“The mural (which lies about 20 blocks from my house) wasn’t even particularly opposed by the student body. According to teachers who attended the public hearings over the mural, the majority of students were against its removal or just apathetic. But a small group of outside busybodies joined with a few students to ensure that it would be removed from the public’s sight.
Once the words ‘racist’ or ‘white supremacist’ are attached to something, no matter how inaccurate, liberals will not risk their reputation by defending it,” Sutton wrote.
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People need to grow up!
Those people need a horse whipping, then their citizenship revoked, and finally deported to a Shithole country where they won’t be triggered.
Like Seattle or Portland
There’s so many things wrong with this.
First, it looks like a fucking cartoon. I don’t see any artistic value.
Second – they say it will cost $800,000 to paint over it – WTF. This is public employee unions at their finest. 10 gallons of Sherwin Williams, two guys, drop cloth, roller covers, it’s gone in a week.
Third – I’m so tired where the ‘rights’ a few wacko’s who are hurt or offended are elevated above the rights of the majority.
They should paint over it, and have a new mural that better represents the SanFransicko of today: queers butt fucking, chicks with dicks, and homeless shitting in the streets.
Wow – great art in mind there Dutch.
Amen , fucking losers
Fuck Cali
Fuck libtards
I’m traumatized by all the traumatization.
Diversity means a large grey mass of nothing.
You might be right, it was supposed to be an effort to recognize the contribution and abilities of individuals in an organization instead of looking at the stereotype of whatever group that person fell in. It might have been an expansion of race-based affirmative action to include other minority groups; bald, fat, ugly or gender compromised (LGBTQ). Opportunists and naysayers turned a dumb idea into a weapon. Diversity is now a shield for LGBTQ assholes and an excuse for social eugenicists.
The opportunity being exploited here will logically lead to expulsion of whites from any area where they might traumatize blacks or browns. It is stupid and un-American.
Insert sound of babies crying here…
They’ll probably paint over it with a portrait of Poncho Villa waving a fag flag…
Pancho and he wouldn’t be waving a fag flag, MacBlowjob (bet you thought I was gonna say MacGayver)
Pancho Villa was a high level mason, never heard he was a fag. He actually wore three piece suits and looked nothing like the character he portrayed.
More proof:
Liberalism is a mental disorder
So tired of fucktarded crybabies… we need to
Laugh them out of existence
Someone please alert me when the purge begins as this shit is getting way out of hand.
Do you live in ‘Frisco, Jimmie?
Obviously no idea what “traumatized” REALLY is. If I showed up drinking from a straw . . . trauma! . . . in a red white and blue MAGA hat . . . trauma! . . . in order to hand out poop-sacks to all the homeless . . . trauma!. . . while holding hands with a woman . . . trauma! . . . and carrying a copy of the constitution . . . trauma!
But if I showed up wearing high-heels, make-up, in a Chi-Comm red dress, burned a flag and took a crap on the school board desk . . . they would cheer and celebrate the horror.
?
Wow.
By Jove, I think you’ve got it!
Well, the mural was painted by a Communist working for the mostly Communist FDR administration who wanted to portray mistreatment of blacks and Amerinds by the white man.
J–ish?
http://mileswmathis.com/wash.pdf
If they don’t some nut will destroy it, it’s how they act, who they are. Better put it behind bullet proof glass if it stays.
Anon,better yet,bullet reflective glass bouncing said rounds directly back at shooter.
McNamara’s crying about “Russian” bots attacking her now, cuz she really cares for all her patients, no matter what anti-white crap she spews on Twitter. We all believe her, right?
San Francisco is a wasteland. Not surprised to hear this. These coddled kids need to run to their safe spaces because of the noble visage of the father of our Country. What they need to do is to learn more about him, his character and what he did. He is the perfect role model for the kids of today and not the gay pony on My little pony.
Of course this is the most important issue at Washington High. It’s not like there are any real educational problems at the place:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-child-left-behind-SF-student-failed-every-12789302.php?psid=ba9ES
Also, the school’s population is 64% Asian. How are they ‘traumatized’ by this mural?
Best way to Make America Great Again is let in all the illegals..sort out all the criminals then send them all back to their countries of origins along with all the liberals who hate this country..the criminals can prove to the socialist maggots how great they had it here..in the meantime..put the illegals to work building the wall..then give them citizenship in exchange for keeping out the liberals