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.
In addition to depicting Washington as a soldier, surveyor and statesman, the 13-panel, 1,600-sqaure foot mural at George Washington High School contains images of white pioneers standing over the body of a Native American and slaves working at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.
The board’s decision last week comes at a time when the legacies of Washington and other historical figures who owned slaves are being re-examined. Some cities have changed the names of streets and buildings named after slave owners.
I hope they are AT LEAST getting another mural out of that 600K. I'd have to paint 30 2500 sq.ft. houses to make that much. Thats fucking robbery
Angel Myers
They'll pay another 600k to have an obese negress and some trannies fling their ebolAIDS shit at the wall and say "we built dis n sheeeit". And the middle-aged Karens will cheer it on right up until the rape squads hit their block.
Dominic Turner
Farenheit 451.
Jacob Stewart
I can't understand the problem of the colored man these days. Wars have been fought, his freedom has been bought. Yet, he doesn't want to see or remember the past that he has risen from? Forgetting the past is a sure way to repeating the mistakes made in the past. What will we do as other primates approach the tipping point towards cognitive consciousness? Even now, the other great apes approach the stone age, with their usage of tools. They are not to many generations removed from our own stone age. Will we forget this also? What purpose does it serve to remove a work of art commissioned to help the poor in the 1930s, just because it displays the father of the very country that art is in? No purpose is served, other than current political ones, and those are fads, that will come and go. The country that George Washington helped survey, build, defend with gallantry both as an Englishman and later as our American General. The man who refused to be a KING! You will just destroy his past?
visited my brother today, his niece was talking about the "free LGBT makeup that the children were given as part of pride month". The memes aren't memes anymore, there isn't much you can say that isn't already happening.
Nicholas Wilson
They could just paint over all the negros and redskins and replace them with either background or more Englishmen.
Nathan Watson
Africans have little impulse control or future time orientation, ie they don't ever think about the past, or consequences of their actions. If you have something they want, like a bike, a farm, or Western civilization, they will take it, even if it means they starve tomorrow. You can see this in every place they've been given a society they could never build, and torn it down. Rhodesia as bread basket to Zimbabwe's famine, South Africa as a power exporter to rolling blackouts, and soon America.
Connor Lee
That is my point. They are not thinking. There is no thought for tomorrow in this crazy kind of destruction.
Nathan Bell
Are the bits people don't like off camera cuz there's nothing bad I can see in that pic
Justin Price
They don't like the bits with white people. Once it's destroyed they'll find some new bitchfest the next day until there's nothing left to burn down.
Mason Ward
We should start a campaign to save statues and art from desecration. If Hitler's art can be saved why can't this art be saved?
Dominic Walker
That's right commies burn those books.
Caleb Martin
This one needs to be blasted on mainstream media. Even NPCs will understand what this means.
Daniel Flores
No they won't. NPCs will cheer for it.
Sebastian Fisher
When the media tries to hide news, it means the NPCs will respond to it.
The media is hiding this one. San Francisco NPCs are the only ones who will cheer.
Isaiah Morris
got any proof of that?
Grayson Bennett
See, the problem is that the slaves aren't diverse enough. We just need to paint some of them as Chinamen, Latinos, gays, jews, and maybe even some Arabs too. Then, they can all be equally oppressed by evil whitey together!
Austin Bennett
There were plenty of white slaves in the early days of America. The blacks got the short end of the stick as almost all were slaves, but there was white ones too,
Landon Barnes
Please make some highres photos of it, so it can be reproduced. Thanks.
Ryan Jones
I haven't seen the one in San Francisco. However there is a George Washington Mural in the top of the Capital Rotunda in Washington DC. The city that is named after him.
Is there like a quote form communist doctrine, where they intend to change all the street names and art. Can we meme that, and press the meme every time this happens, and that if you are changing street names you have un-American intent, and alien social contract, therefore not an American, so gtfo etc.
Jose Hall
that faggotry and (((pride century))) is being forced in schools everywhere? have you seen the news lately, or spoken to anyone with children.
You're a decade or two too late, they don't even pretend to hide their contempt for America or whitey any more. You have junior professors in state university systems openly trashing the country and people who gave them everything, and a critical mass of supporters that keeps the old white women in administration from doing anything but applauding.
Nolan Rivera
Penny Lane in Liverpool was named after a slave trader, so I'm surprised they haven't called the Beatles racist yet.
Matthew Hughes
the zogbots are murdering them by the thousand cmon….
Josiah Wood
What was that saying? "Doomed to repeat it" or something?
Jackson Smith
How are they not invaders when they are deliberately destroying your culture, art and history?
Hudson Russell
San Fran known as the city of artists and liberal expression. Decides to censor inappropriate art…says it all about the left-wing these days don't it?
Nicholas Bailey
Mao would be proud
Grayson Martinez
Hmm, now where have I seen this sort of thing before…
Someone should go and take high-quality photos of the mural before its gone and put them on the internet.
Ethan Harris
No way, a bunch of Libtards and Leftists are offended by something historic….
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Isaac Murphy
You're right religious fundamentalists and zealots like to destroy art too. Hmmmm.
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