Posted on 07/05/2019 3:26:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
Here’s a heartwarming story that will surely inspire patriots across the nation right around the country’s birthday. Out in San Francisco (where else?), there’s a school that has a massive mural depicting the life and times of George Washington. That seems rather appropriate since the school in question is George Washington High School. The mural consists of multiple panels and has been in place for more than eighty years. But it’s 2019, so what are we going to do? Paint it over, of course, because Washington is “problematic.” (Associated Press)
San Francisco will spend up to $600,000 to paint over historical artwork at a public school depicting the life of George Washington, a mural once seen as educational and innovative but now criticized as racist and degrading for its depiction of black and Native American people.
The “Life of Washington” was painted by Victor Arnautoff, one of the foremost muralists in the San Francisco area during the Depression. The San Francisco School Board’s decision to paint over the 83-year-old mural is prompting some to worry that other artwork from the so-called New Deal era could face a similar fate because of changing sensitivities.
Apparently, there is one panel that depicts a dead Native American and another scene showing slaves working in the fields at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. Since the artist, Victor Arnautoff, painted the murals directly onto the walls, the mural can’t simply be removed and relocated. So they’ve decided to cover it up in what will literally be a case of whitewashing away the nation’s history.
Yes, Washington was a slave owner for at least part of his life. And it’s true that the newly arrived Europeans engaged in warfare and skirmishes with the indigenous tribes of North America. Those things actually happened. They are part of our history, not all of which is really glorious when viewed through the lens of 21st-century sensibilities. But much like statues and other artwork paying homage to the civil war era, are we to simply pretend that it never happened?
Another aspect of the story that makes this as San Francisco as possible is that they’re spending $600,000 on the project. Yes, you read that correctly. They’re putting up more than half a million dollars to paint a wall. Of course, a lot of that money is slated for the expected legal challenges to the decision, as well as conducting an environmental impact study. (I’m guessing they might have used lead-based paint on the mural?)
Putting a big wall around San Francisco and treating it like Escape from New York simply isn’t a practical idea. But we should still allow them to secede from the union and put a massive wall around the entire state.
I’m offended by the Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo murals around San Francisco in various public buildings painted in the last century, because of the communist content. Perhaps SF will paint them over if I complain.
Not all the history erasers wear D jerseys.
Nikki Haley (R) started this feeding frenzy in SC.
San Franfeces
Arnautoff was a communist and were he alive today would probably be a supporter of antifa. He was also a talented artist.
The leftist eat their own.
Goody! Now for getting rid of serial philanderer MLK!
Taliban. The Taliban destroyed dozens of 800 year old Buddhist statues.
Either we split this country in half or we crush these commies (cause that’s who we’re dealing with) cause this is way past the tolerant phase.
My childhood post office growing up had a Diego Rivera communist workers mural. So does the Detroit Institute of Arts (I will not go there as it truly is within Detroit which I have boycotted since about 1975.
Please, all, remember “First they burned their books, then they burned the people.”-—about WWII. Add to “books” murals,paintings,bulding names, statues, school names and any references on Google or Facebook.
They are setting up justifications for the coming genocide of white people.
Even now the soundbites I heard of compiled TV news reactions to the recent Antifa atrocities said “We have to admit to ourselves that these are courageous people who are standing up to the white supremacists and facists brought to us by Trump and his voters” “What is wrong with opposing the white supremacists in public as we all should start doing?”
Get ready. The 1960s Mau Maus and current South Africa are harbingers, not history. Any constitutionalist, tradition loving , pro-Founding Fathers American is in their target practice now.
“Get ready. The 1960s Mau Maus and current South Africa are harbingers, not history.”
See my tag line.
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Obviously this is just wrong ,,, as is the cost.. I say allow them to place a false wall (drywall on furring strips in front of it so they’re not OFFENDED .. then it can be revealed later when reasonable people come into power.. total cost ,, maybe $2k with union wages.
San Francisco will spend up to $600,000 to paint over historical artwork, probably paid to some street thug to graffiti over it for 600,000 dollars. Earthquake cant come fast enough
Washington FREED HIS SLAVES on his death...a very difficult thing to do given the laws of the day. Funny that that little tidbit never seems to get mentioned along with the “Washington was a slave owner” meme.
Was the painting / mural a WPA project?
I agree with you, but good luck on the splitting part.
Pipe dream.
“.. then it can be revealed later when reasonable people come into power..”
When the planet is ruled by apes, you mean.
Too many have died.
This board is full of men who survived.
To all the Men. ..
I pray God. Is with you.
I give thanks to you.
Without your bravery, I might not exist.
Hugs and kisses.
And not those fake lol stupid things.
Nothing says California like Democrats lifting bans on Communists and seditionists teaching in public schools. They made that change some time this century. Democrats hate America and ally with Communist extremists.
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