Posted on 10/08/2018 6:46:46 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Administrators at the University of New Mexico are proposing to cover four murals on the campus that have elicited concern among Native American faculty and student groups at the school.
President Garnett Stokes and Provost Richard Wood have made the proposal to the university's Regents Historic Preservation Committee, the Associated Press reported.
The four murals make up the "Three Peoples Murals" located inside the university's Zimmerman Library.
One mural shows a white man holding the hands of a faceless Native American man and a faceless Hispanic man. The mural has bothered some faculty and students, who say it marginalizes Hispanics and Native Americans.
Another mural in the series shows five Native Americans participating in activities such as weaving, and another shows Hispanics engaging in agriculture and architecture. The other mural shows white people looking through telescopes.
Alex Lubin, an associate provost at the university, told the AP that dealing with the murals and responding to the concerns of students and faculty is "a process that's ongoing."
“They understand that tending to these issues are important today — maybe more important than ever," he added.
The AP reported that campus community members have been protesting the murals for decades.
Robin Starr Minthorn, a Native American studies professor at the university, told the AP that the mural with the white man and the faceless Native American and Hispanic men "causes some psychological distress."
“You’re always having to walk by there, or you’re sitting in front of it, and you don’t see people representing you who have any facial expressions," Minthorn said.
The move to cover the murals isn't the first time the university has responded to concerns brought by Native American campus community members. The university last year stopped using an official university seal that included profiles of a frontiersman and conquistador, according to the AP.
I guess they don’t know the difference between a telescope and a microscope.
The Mona Lisa offends me. Where do I complain?
These ass clowns see racism everywhere. I’m sure these triggered pukes will bitch about the clouds being white and not brown..
Thes A-holes are going to take over unless we fight. And I mean literally.
If one looks to be offended they will be just like racists see racism in everything.
The climate in New Mexico is relatively warm but it doesn’t seem to inhibit the generation of a lot of snowflakes.
I don’t like any of them not that it has anything to do with race. I just don’t like them.
If the artist is still around, if they harm or remove the paintings, he/she can sue for violation of the federal Visual Artists’ Relief Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Artists_Rights_Act
Now you know why the Sphinx lost his nose. Absolute and total ignorance.
It is because they are racist.
New Mexico, not Arizona, but the attitude crosses state (and Indian) borders.
Nope, guess the university “students” don’t know the difference between a Stone Age culture (all that was here before Columbus!) powered by slaves, women, and dogs a culture that could not plow with iron, use horses, or cultivate efficiently; and a new culture that DOES know how to invent and use microscopes, treat babies for diseases and cure infections, and create wealth!
Did the protesters complain that the “white women” were also faceless while using those “telescopes” in the hospitals?
Murals have been there since 1939, for 79 years.
So what hispanic or native revelation just caused them to be noticed to garner the hatred of the SJW university communist crowd?
I guess the la raza wing of Antifa will bring sledgehammers next.
My family moved to New Mexico when it was Territory. Got to Ft. Sumner a week after Billy the Kid died. The men all married Indian woman, thus they could claim land in Indian Territory before the great Red River Rush when many went to file claims in New Mexico. I knew the Aunts, I SERIOUSLY doubt any of them would have made a fuss about a mural. But there are so people around just waiting for someone to offend them.
Man, those are sooooooo sCaRY!!!!!
Looks like they’re all faceless.
Good grief. These murals have been triggering people for generations!
“bothers”
We need to tilt the world because they are “bothered?”
I would never damage or cover them even tho I don’t like them. Some person spent a lot of work on them and some probably paid a lot to have them done so they stay.
I just will look at them and think they are not very good.
Maybe next time just not notice them.
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