let's erase George Washington from history!!!

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ah yes .. the liberal revisionist history. George Washington. liberator of the colonies from oppressive British rule is bad! Evil! let's erase him from history!! and erase the United States of America while we are at it!!!

how interesting that this can't be done in Kalifornica .. because of their liberal laws!!! there is an obscure libtard law that says an artist's work can't be removed until 50 years after his death. the artist a russian died in 1979 .. so they can't remove it for 10 more years! they want to cover it. the liberal laws of Kalifornicac ontinue to shoot themselves in the ass. how ironic!!!

the name of the high school ... George Washington High School.

BAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

https://www.yahoo.com/news/school-bo...120500949.html

or try the actual article at nationalinterst.org ..

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...rancisco-68182


July 20, 2019 Topic: Society Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: CultureHistoryProgressivePolitics
School Board Votes to Paint Over George Washington Mural In San Francisco

We explain why.

by Joshua Nelson

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.

The 1,600-square-foot mural series titled “Life of Washington” was painted on San Francisco’s George Washington High School in 1936 by a Russian-American artist and Stanford University art professor Victor Arnautoff.


It was funded by the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration and shows a variety of scenes from Washington’s life.

School district spokeswoman Laura Dudnick confirmed that although only two mural pieces stand out as offensive to members of the community, the board’s decision would apply to all 13 panels of the mural.

School board members had to decide whether to cover and preserve the painting using panels or textile, or completely erase it by painting over it. Buckling under pressure from those who find the images offensive to certain members of the school community, the board decided to paint over it.

Advocates for removing the mural included local high school students, George Washington High School graduates, and Native Americans.

During a public comment portion of the June 25 meeting, Paloma Flores, program coordinator for the district’s Indian Education Program, said, per KQED, “It’s not a matter of offense, it’s a matter of the right to learn without a hostile environment.”
“Intent does not negate lived experience,” she added.

According to KQED, mural critics in the community “believe the artist’s intentions are irrelevant in light of the harm to young people of color daily confronted by images of their ancestors debased.”
Native American Barbara Mumby-Huerta, who staffs the San Francisco Art Commission, challenged statements on historical accuracy, saying that the mural is ignorant of indigenous people.

“To portray a Native person face down, dead, you are trapping their soul so that they can not move on,” she said, per KQED.

One mural supporter says he plans to legally challenge the move to paint over the mural. Lope Yap Jr., vice president of the school’s alumni group, vowed to “use every tactic available” for litigation, according to KQED.

Before the school board meeting, the San Francisco Chronicle polled art leaders in the Bay Area about the controversy.

“I am deeply sensitive to the pain that this situation is causing the student body and Washington High School community,” said Neal Benezra, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

“A decision to paint over the mural is irreversible,” he added. “The option to cover the artwork with panels to allow future educational research keeps open that opportunity.”

Jarrett Stepman of The Daily Signal wrote about the removal of the mural, citing a historian’s account of Arnautoff, “a man of the left in his own time,” and his intention of making Washington “less glamorized” by painting images of the slaves he owned or the price paid with Native Americans’ blood during westward expansion.

In his interview with historian Fergus M. Bordewich, Bordewich explains:
[Arnautoff] included those images not to glorify Washington, but rather to provoke a nuanced evaluation of his legacy. The scene with the dead Native American, for instance, calls attention to the price of ‘manifest destiny.’ Arnautoff’s murals also portray the slaves with humanity and the several live Indians as vigorous and manly.

Those who condemn the murals have misunderstood it, seeing only what they sought to find. They’ve also got their history seriously wrong. Washington did own slaves—124 men, women, and children—and oversaw many more who belonged to his wife’s family. But by his later years he had evolved into a proto-abolitionist, a remarkable ethical journey for a man of his time, place, and class.
The removal of the mural is expected to take at least a year, according to district staff. Before proceeding with painting over the mural, its historical significance requires an environmental review.

In the case that the painting takes more time than expected, the district could cover it with panels. Three years, Sanchez said, would be considered “undue delay.”

This first appeared in The Daily Signal here.
Sistine Chapel's Avatar
Any slave owning president should be stained and have a negative mark on his history.
The_Waco_Kid's Avatar
Any slave owning president should be stained and have a negative mark on his history. Originally Posted by Sistine Chapel
how about the blacks in Africa who sold their own kind into slavery? Tribal intraracial violence is the true genesis of slavery ... but you know that .. right????

so arya gonna defend black slavery or condemn it?

inquiring posters want to know!!!

and thanks for taking the rat bait. you are so predictable.


BAHHAHAHHAAAAAAAA
Any slave owning president should be stained and have a negative mark on his history. Originally Posted by Sistine Chapel
Why? you can't rewrite history to fit your needs. The history of this country may not be all glamorous but it is what it is. Slavery was part of this country's history and not all slaves were black either.
The_Waco_Kid's Avatar
The irony is delicious..

"Arnautoff was considered a left-wing liberal and communist and many of his works feature themes about class divisions, labor, and undeserved power. "

https://www.artandarchitecture-sf.co...arnautoff.html
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Yeah, just part of the bigger Socialist thesis victimization of America
  • oeb11
  • 07-21-2019, 08:47 AM
Any slave owning president should be stained and have a negative mark on his history. Originally Posted by Sistine Chapel

Is your opinion reflective of the state of your underwear?
Is poster sure One's own ancestors did not own slaves?
Is One aware slaves were owned by blacks in the US when slave stares existed.

Does the Entire Population of the US deserve a Stain and dishonor for something that ended 150 years ago - (righfully, and not soon enough)?

Already the DPST's are revising history - plan to discard anyone who ever owned slaves!!!
OHHH - The Humanity!


To paraphrase - those who revise and obliterate history are condemned to repeat it.

Got plans for all White Straight males to be slaves ?????





Oh, - just a plea for reparations to blacks.

Self-Interest? Of course it is.

LOL
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What can we say about the widow C. Richards? She was a woman in Louisiana in the 19th century. She owned a sugar cane plantation. She owned 152 slaves...and she was black. You claim to be a faux bro but are you sure that your family didn't own slaves? One of my ancestors owned 11 square miles of NW Missouri before the Civil War. We don't own it today. He gave a lot away a lot of land for schools, community buildings, railroad stations, and helped found two towns in Missouri. Did he own slaves? No, but his grandmother did. So you would mark him for what his grandmother did? You are one awful piece of ......
  • oeb11
  • 07-21-2019, 09:03 AM
Agree - BC - just a hypocritical DPST Trolling.

Perhaps SomeOne should get out and go to work for re-election campaigns for the Gang of Four.
Would fit right in.
How about a painting of the life of Choctaw chief Greenwood Leflore ?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smith...ive-180968339/
  • oeb11
  • 07-21-2019, 10:17 AM
DPST's would reject that as not consistent with their Plantation Politics Racial Profiling narrative.
They are already re-writing history in their own image.
Image of the DPST radical Socialist "Religion".
dilbert firestorm's Avatar
The irony is delicious..

"Arnautoff was considered a left-wing liberal and communist and many of his works feature themes about class divisions, labor, and undeserved power. "

https://www.artandarchitecture-sf.co...arnautoff.html Originally Posted by Joey_Gleet

yup, that is ironic.


the libs want to paint over the works of one of their own, a left wing pinko.. maybe he wasn't too lefty enough?


Its a nice artwork, but it is a negative portrayal of George Washington.


too many stupid libs who are clueless about history.
dilbert firestorm's Avatar
its a shame that the mural gets taken down.

they ought to donate the mural to a museum or something. It should not be too hard to remove the mural intact. its been done before over murals that have artistic value.
The_Waco_Kid's Avatar
its a shame that the mural gets taken down.

they ought to donate the mural to a museum or something. It should not be too hard to remove the mural intact. its been done before over murals that have artistic value. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

they can't for 10 more years. cover it perhaps. but Kalifornica's own libtard laws prevent that.

ironic indeed that it portrays Washington negatively yet they want it covered?

this is the clear stupidity of the pc mind set. brilliant!!!
BAHHAHAAA