High school may erase mural of George Washington: ‘traumatizes students’

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  1. cd8ed

    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You are not representative of anyone besides yourself.

    If you cannot see why some would have issue with that painting you are likely being purposefully obtuse.
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How do you figure?
     
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    Loads of wining here that their white supremacist murals and statues are disappearing.
     
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    Just the average nation-hating and bog standard leftist working for any school district in this nation. Oh wait, was that a rhetorical question?
     
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    nra37922 Well-Known Member

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    Covering up what happened doesn't mean it never happened.
     
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    nra37922 Well-Known Member

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    Just because SOME have some heartache over it OR anything else for the matter doesn't mean squat. Grow some balls, get some tougher skin and move on.
     
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    Yeah! I just can't understand why all these snowflakes are complaining about the erasure of some mural, it's insanity!

    Grow some balls, get some tougher skin, and move on.
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Go tell that to the children that see images of their ancestors going through a genocide. They are the ones with the issue. I am just saying I could understand why they would have issue with it.

    Why do conservatives care so little about children?
     
  9. nra37922

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    World's a rough place. Deal with it or be run over.
     
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    They are dealing with it. Unfortunately, they have to contend with snowflakes like you.
     
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    If George Washington offends you, it’s about time to ****, because you’ve gone insane. Go find a nice country in Africa that suits you better. I’m sure the 1000s of years of slavery there is far less offensive.
     
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    Uh-oh, somebody doesn't know what this is actually about.
     
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    Not to worry. With things like black history month it all be straightened out how the crewel the white population was.
     
  14. BillRM

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    Too bad we do not teach real history where the answers of what kind of man Washington happen to be are complex.

    On his death he free his slaves while using federal resources as president to try to get his wife one black maid who ran away back for her.

    He was a great leader with human flaws that reflect more on the era he was born into then himself, in my opinion.
     
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    With special note of the US at times being very rough for non whites and those that are non Christians for that matter.

     
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    May erase. They voted to erase it. What a bunch of unpatriotic embazills forcing their lack of knowledge of history into this specious claim the mural is somehow racist and Washington was a racist. They the history of yesteryear through the prism of today and declare the higher moral ground. It is a beautiful historical mural which displays the history of the country good and bad. Go to Washington DC and see the numerous displays in about every historical display of the same history. If a child develops some "problem" with viewing it then that needs to be dealt with with the individual child as to why such and emotional reaction and help the child deal with it to get over it there is no rational reason for it.

    School Board Votes to Paint Over George Washington Mural In San Francisco

    School Board Votes to Paint Over George Washington Mural In San Francisco

    The San Francisco Board of Education unanimously voted last month in favor of painting over a George Washington mural series on a school wall depicting Washington standing over a Native American’s corpse and another in the company of slaves on his Mount Vernon estate.

    “This is reparations,” Education Board Commissioner Mark Sanchez said in a KQED report when asked about the estimated $600,000 price tag for its removal. It could reportedly take a year to complete.

    https://news.yahoo.com/school-board-votes-paint-over-120500949.html

    And $600,000 to remove it?? Give me $2000 and I'll whitewash over it. What do they have to do chistle off the face an 1" deep so no one will have some emotional reaction because some of the paint may have seeped in that deep? Why not bulldoze it down and burn the rubbish so nothing is left at all so no one will be reminded and not be able to enter the building. They can have a march to celebrate.

    And how are those test scores going? Graduation rates?
     
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    I hate to generalize, but why do conservatives worship objects? Statues, paintings, people, books, flags, documents. It seems that anything can be worshiped.
     

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