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To: detective
This article is a bit disingenuous. I might even call it fake news. Yes, there is a mural at the school, and yes some folks want it covered up or removed.

But the complaint is not about Washington. The complaint is about the showing of slaves picking cotton. And here's the interesting thing. The Front Page site has a picture of Washington that has NOTHING to do with the story.

Note the slaves in the upper right of (part of) the actual mural.

Disclaimer: I take no position on this controversy. But I'm not happy with Front Page trying to slip one past us.

16 posted on 06/20/2019 1:46:26 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right
Note the slaves in the upper right of (part of) the actual mural.

Can't they just white them out?

31 posted on 06/20/2019 2:01:37 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Leaning Right

Jeebus!
Even the dogs are black!
Burn it!


37 posted on 06/20/2019 2:07:27 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Socialism is great, 300 million dead Socialists can't be wrong)
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To: Leaning Right
The complaint is about the showing of slaves picking cotton.

Also the settlers marching past the dead Indian.

The artist was a Russian and a Communist who eventually went back to the Soviet Union.

So one may wonder if the mural was originally designed to paint a negative picture of Washington.

44 posted on 06/20/2019 2:20:58 PM PDT by x
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To: Leaning Right

Thank you for pointing out whole truths.

Of course, my cynical self could add something to your revelation, but I’ll save that for another reply!


62 posted on 06/20/2019 3:15:51 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: Leaning Right

I have seen other GW art that includes equally incorrect material. Washington never grew cotton, nor did any one else in Fairfax County. It is to far north for the growing cycle of the plant. Also until effective ginning machines were developed little of the plant was grown, except on the Sea Islands in Georgia.


71 posted on 06/20/2019 4:30:22 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Leaning Right

The attacks on our founders by the left and the Democrats are everywhere.

The mural was painted by a communist under the WPA program in 1937.

It was meant to portray George Washington and our country badly.

There was never cotton grown at Mt Vernon so the picture is not historically accurate.

There is no attempt to simply remove the offending parts or replace it with another mural of George Washington.

Democrats are always dishonest.

They have been attacking our country, our founders and our history.


95 posted on 06/21/2019 6:54:54 AM PDT by detective
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