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Another plot to erase history foiled.The San Francisco school board violated state law when it voted to cover up a 1930s mural that critics said is racist and degrading in its depiction of Black and Native American people, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo said the board failed to conduct an environmental impact review before it voted in 2019 to cover up the sprawling mural at George Washington High School that depicts the life of George Washington, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The 1936 mural was painted by Victor Arnautoff, one of the foremost muralists in the San Francisco area during the Depression. In addition to depicting Washington as a soldier, surveyor and statesman, the 13-panel, 1,600-square-foot (149-square-meter) mural contains images of white pioneers standing over the body of a Native American and slaves working at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.
well, I am not paying to read the article...so perhaps you can provide a link to the actual decision....ah I see it is because they did not provide the environmental impact study...not about the right of them to actually cover the mural...they can do so, but they have to do the environmental impact study as required by law.Another plot to erase history foiled.
You don’t have to pay to read the article.well, I am not paying to read the article...so perhaps you can provide a link to the actual decision.
yeah, you actually do...I get a huge block telling me to subscribe...but you misrepresented the decision..You don’t have to pay to read the article.
I'm glad they didn't cover up that mural, because it rightly portrays the cruel injustices perpetrated against native Americans and black people, making it very clear that George Washington, the supposed father of our nation, had a direct hand in them.Another plot to erase history foiled.
I'm glad they didn't cover up that mural, because it rightly portrays the cruel injustices perpetrated against native Americans and black people, making it very clear that George Washington, the supposed father of our nation, had a direct hand in them.
Another plot to erase history foiled.
I posted what the decision was so it’s not misrepresented. And yeah, a plot to erase history was foiled even if only on a technicality.The decision was that an environmental review had not been completed, not that the board's decision to remove the mural was wrong. Hence, the OP without doubt misrepresented the decision and is simple dishonest.
OTOH, as implied in post #5, it might be better to keep the mural as a historic example of America's systemic racism. And, instead, caption the mural, as suggested in #6, the truth of the racism depicted in the mural.
I expected hysterics from you and I’m not disappointed.Still trying to push that hilariously idiotic angle?
....erase history....
The guy won't be happy until the confederate flag flies over the White House.....
So you didn’t click the hyperlinked “foiled.”
If you are interested in seeing the mural and learning more about it go here: https://www.peoplesworld.org/articl...th-the-hidden-history-of-the-arnautoff-mural/well, I am not paying to read the article...so perhaps you can provide a link to the actual decision....ah I see it is because they did not provide the environmental impact study...not about the right of them to actually cover the mural...they can do so, but they have to do the environmental impact study as required by law.
I'd rather read the source than a secondary source, yes.So you didn’t click the hyperlinked “foiled.”
I posted what the decision was so it’s not misrepresented. And yeah, a plot to erase history was foiled even if only on a technicality.
The mural speaks for itself as an accurate depiction of history. There’s no need for a caption.So, you're OK with the mural remaining and a caption be incl on the wall as to the truth of the racism depicted in the mural? You don't believe it was a depiction of what incl the practice of racism in the scene?
The decision was that an environmental review had not been completed, not that the board's decision to remove the mural was wrong. Hence, the OP without doubt misrepresented the decision and is simple dishonest.
OTOH, as implied in post #5, it might be better to keep the mural as a historic example of America's systemic racism. And, instead, caption the mural, as suggested in #6, the truth of the racism depicted in the mural.
That's all they really ever needed to do in the first place, stick a damn plaque next to it advising that the mural was done in the 1930's when racism was a deeply ingrained set of values and that it does not represent modern thinking. The End.
The mural speaks for itself as an accurate depiction of history. There’s no need for a caption.
The mural speaks for itself as an accurate depiction of history. There’s no need for a caption.
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