George Washington High School in Northern California is considering removing a mural of the nation’s first president because critics say it “traumatizes students and community members.”
A 13-member working group held four public meetings and in February concluded that the historical paintings do not include “values of social justice, diversity, united, [or] student-centered.”
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They recommended having the murals, which include numerous panels that make up the “Life of Washington,” removed because it “glorifies oppression instead of eliminating it” and “has nothing to do with equity or inclusion at all.”
Because inclusion is more important than accuracy when it comes to history.
One mural panel depicts Washington with African-Americans and others engaged in manual labor, while another involves a scene representing “manifest destiny” and a dead Native American.
A San Francisco mural has become the latest high-profile target of progressive history censors, writes Fergus M. Bordewich. https://t.co/0kLlMFe0U7
— WSJ Editorial Page (@WSJopinion) April 27, 2019
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“The impact of this mural is greater than its intent ever was,” their report states. “It’s not a counter-narrative if [the mural] traumatizes students and community members.”
So, murals with accurate historical depictions are traumatizing? Does that mean history itself is upsetting to students? What about documentaries and historical movies? Will movies about Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson have to be banned?
Pretty soon history will be forgotten. Is that what the American left wants?
Trump Warned Us
President Trump warned almost two years ago that the Confederate statue outrage would eventually culminate with the removal of symbols representing our forefathers.
“George Washington was a slave owner,” Trump conveyed to reporters. “Was George Washington a slave owner? So, will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down statues to George Washington?”
President Trump: “George Washington was a slave owner… Are we gonna take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson?” pic.twitter.com/bUJnbaniwL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 15, 2017
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“How about Thomas Jefferson?” the President continued addressing the left’s attempts to whitewash history. “What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? OK good. Are we going to take down his statue? Because he was a major slave owner. Are we going to take down his statue?”
The Answer Was Yes
It didn’t take long to realize Trump’s words were a prescient warning.
Race hustler Al Sharpton, just days later, called for an end to funding for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, insisting it is ‘an insult to my family.’
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That same month, a Chicago pastor demanded that a statue of Washington be removed from a local park because he allegedly only “fought for the justice and freedom of white America.”
A couple of months after that, a church that Washington had attended in Virginia removed a plaque honoring the first president.
Now, this.
What else would you expect from a generation that believes Barack Obama was more impactful than Washington?
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They have lost their minds. The insanity needs to be stopped. Unbelievable how stupid the liberals have become in their quest to destroy this country.
The Irish were slaves in America before the blacks were. In those days, if you lost a war, you became a slave. Oliver Cromwell warred against the Irish, and many Irish slaves were brought to America by his followers. These black people ought to get over this BS, because they are not that innocent. Freed black slaves went to Liberia, a country the US set up for them to return to Africa if they wanted to, and the first they did was to make slaves out of the blacks who were indigenous to that area. So, the blacks from the US had black slaves in Liberia. And furthermore, it was not whites who ran the slave trade. It was Sephardic Jews who owned all the slave ships and made fortunes in each run. It’s time for the truth to be told. And let’s not forget that it was warring black tribes in Africa who sold their captured black prisoners down on the beach, to the Sephardic Jews. And you can google up the song “I’m not white, I’m Jewish”. So shove your myths where the sun don’t shine.
Free black US citizens returned to Liberia, Africa…and immediately proceeded to enslave all the blacks who already lived there. Not too long ago, descendants of those indigenous slaves, waged a war against the ex USA black slave owners. All of them are using their once beautiful WHITE beaches for public toilets. You can’t take one step without getting human feces on your feet. I’ve seen pictures of it. Totally disgusting !
To all the liberals that want to remove important symbols of
American history because they don’t conform to socialist
values. This is a list of bills that have images that must be
disturbing to you.
George Washington was a slave owner. $i Bill
Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. $2 Bill
Benjamin Franklin. was slave owner $100 Bill
Andrew Jackson was a slave owner. $20 Bill
Ulysses S Grant owned a slave. $50 Bill
Abraham Lincoln’s wife’s family owned slaves.
Abraham Lincoln suggested that slave should voluntary migrate to colonies
outside the United States to South America,Africa or the Caribbean. $5 Bill
Before you start destroying public symbols start in your own house and
burn every one of these you have. If you don’t you are nothing but a
bigot. Like the old saying, put your money where your mouth is.
Who is deciding that this is traumatizing students? This is traumatizing students, yet letting boys, claiming to be girls, use girls restroom is perfectly ok? Our world is really becoming unraveled!
They are Californians! What else, besides DUMB ACTIONS, would you expect? Trump, build a modified wall along the EAST side of California, with only one entry points into the U.S. – where IQ tests are administered and more than room temperature IQs are allowed to cross the border!
Aah, beautiful California….the Communist Capital of the West! I am convinced Democrats are an insane demographic of the U.S. and they are driven by vile, angry hatred for anything conservative, Christian, or democratic. Democrats constantly seek to eliminate our system of voting by removing the Electoral College from the voting equation. They seek to disarm law-abiding U.S. citizens by removing our Second Amendment. They seek to overthrow our government by registering illegal aliens to vote for their party: promising them free food, shelter, clothing, and medical care if they vote for the Democrat candidate. The time for Conservative Americans to fight back is now and we must begin by swamping our members of Congress with mail, email, and telephone calls denouncing everything Pelosi, Waters, Omar, Talib, Ocasio-Cortez, Schumer, et al seek to accomplish!
I’m not American but even I find this rush to delete your history is more shameful than the aspects of that history that some snowflakes say are so shameful and traumatising. So the people who walk past these murals on a daily basis, mostly without even noting their existence, are so traumatised by the scenes on these murals that they have to rush home to their games consoles and blast zombies to blood dripping gory pieces or steal cars and go on drive by rampages through the city. Committees like this one should be disbanded for the waste of space that they are.
If these Douch Nozzle liberal snowflakes hate this country and it’s history so much, I say that their US citizenship be revoked, and that they be given a one-way ticket to Venezuela. We don’t need these pieces of crap stinking up our wonderful nation.
Those poor little darlings being traumatized because of the past and a few murals. Give me a break, all of those people are part of our past – Americans and it does not matter what color you are or your ancestors. We HONOR our heroes and George Washington was DEFINITELY one of our HEROES. Do they even teach history in school anymore? Probably not, too traumatic for their feelings – GROW UP, STUDENTS AND SCHOOL STAFF – NEXT YOU WILL WANT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL. I am so disgusted with people today and I blame the parents for not standing up to the school and Board of Education. BUT THE SCHOOLS WILL TEACH AND MAKE THE STUDENTS PRACTICE ISLAM AND/OR HOMO/TRANSGENDER CRAP. I am so glad that my children are grown.
Fire the teachers since they made the students to be this stupid. Close the school as these students don’t qualify for an education. Liberalism is for stupid people !
BRING BACK THE MILITARY DRAFT AND IF THEY FAIL REMOVE THEM FROM aMERICAN SOIL !
What a crock of poop! Whoever comes up with this crap needs to be exiled from America!
When truth is unacceptable, then a society has no foundation . If the Blacks are traumatized by the truth, then their character is thin and they are useless members of society. Any excuse to be a victim is trotted out by the Communist Liberals as the “cause de jour ” to avoid work and responsibility and demand a free lunch. They must have an excuse to stay mad at something so they can do NOTHING. I’M SICK OF IT.
Blacks don’t have to worry much about manual labor today and it is almost impossible to get them to work in any shape or form. I want my own statue in honor of the slave years I was forced to pay taxes support blacks as they popped out fatherless baby after baby.
When truth is unacceptable, then a society has no foundation . If the Blacks are traumatized by the truth, then their character is thin and they are useless members of society. Any excuse to be a victim is trotted out by the Communist Liberals as the “cause de jour ” to avoid work and responsibility and demand a free lunch. They must have an excuse to stay mad at something so they can do NOTHING. I’M SICK OF IT.
Al Sharpton and all others who are promoting racism are a disgrace to humanity itself. They should be tarred and feathered and exiled from our country. Racism was a nearly eradicated thing until Obama was elected president. Through his rhetoric and actions, he set race relations back 100 years.
I can’t wait to vote for President Trump! He has much work ahead of him!
If seeing a mural is all that it takes to traumatize community members, our educational systems have failed miserably. Future classes—– Let’s have a show of hands of all who are traumatized by a mural of Washington. O.K. You liberals leave the room while the rest of us learn about history.
if you look hard enough, everyone was a slave owner -or- they did nothing to stop slavery making them equally complicit – everyone, everywhere – as foolish as ‘six degrees to Kevin Bacon’
Burn it down. They do not learn anything.
Stop and think a minute about removing Hitler from history. He’s been used as an example of what’s wrong in the world. If we forget all our history then we also forget the lessons learned the hard way. These people trying to rid our country of it’s rich history are the ones who need to be silenced.
The nut-cakes are trying to take over the country in the name of inclusiveness which has become their god. The rest of us are to pay homage to their god by bowing to their whims.
G W High School administrators should be required to send all students suffering from emotional trauma to a place where they can receive the treatment they need to live in our society.
Make no mistake all this feigned emotional trauma crap, inclusive/diversity snares are being used as weapons to eradicate America’s foundations, to snuff out all remembrance of our history with lying re-writes but the big prize is the destruction of Christianity and our God whom democrats despise with the same fiery and hatred of Satan himself.
Get your facts right. It’s Board of Education that’s considering the removal, not the school.
How in the name of all is Holy can a picture that has been there forever traumatize any student???? This is in the mind of the administrator and their stupid liberal thinking!!!
Poor little kids. Why don’t the teachers teach the history of this country instead of brain washing the kids or maybe they don’t want the kids to know how great this County is compared to others.
If you follow history of any sort, you will see a great deal of similarity between the early 1900’s Russia when they changed their history because it was not liked by the young people (new liberals) and today in the USA where statues are being taken down and history is being changed because the liberals don’t like the history of it. That led into Communism in Russian in 1917. Does this sound familiar? Conservatives, DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN. IT’S TIME TO FIGHT BACK.
I don’t believe most students care it is the leftist administators pushing this agenda.
Really, Just how does a Mural of George Washington “traumatizes students and community members.”??? Just made up remarks from Liberals to change our past. It’s been there since 1936 , 83 years and now it bothers Liberals! I guess they want a Mural of OBAMA to replace it, when the Gay Marriage was approved thus sealing the Obama’s Marriage as Legal!
Boo Hoo ! They are” traumatized” by the murals. Meanwhile, they are watching every diabolical movie that comes out; every twisted TV program; running with street gangs; selling and using drugs; having abortions; listening to race-baiting and female-hating satanical music;but it is all President Washington’s fault ! Talk to the hand !
If the 13 Panel members would teach our kids real history then they would know that if it were not for General Washington leading the Continental Army to a victory over the tyranny of King George, there would be no United States of America today. General Washington freed many slaves after one year of service to his Army by a general order. Upon his death many of his slaves were freed. His best spy was one of his slaves. Mr. Armistead was freed after the war. Slavery was an institution in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Sharpton and the rest of his crony knuckleheads need to read history as well. Tribal leaders sold their own people into slavery. He was not a slave, therefore, none of the Sharptonites should get reparations. Maybe, they all need to move to N. Korea, China, Cuba, Russia, or Venezuela and demand reparations. The fore mentioned countries would put a bullet in the back of there heads for nonsense like this.
I echo the comments that America needs to wake up, and California needs to wake up. You cannot erase history, remove individual accountability, remove the lessons from history simply because you don’t know how to explain properly the role of a mural to a few loud complainers… and yet be able to teach the next generation of free thinkers and producers. We are at risk of socialist policy makers taking us down the path of making us all slaves to the government, if we can’t stand up for what America was and how we have evolved.
Maybe they should all move to Venezuela where there is no food. Or perhaps to China where the government is your father. Or The Soviet Union, where Russia is your mother. Maybe instead of wanting the impossible they should scrutinize what they already have and be grateful for it.
Listen liberals, your ignorance is showing! You can’t change history to suit yourself. Reality doesn’t change.
We need to demand the renaming of all the buildings and roads with Robert Byrd’s name on them. That man was an organizer and leader for the Klu Klux Klan and has no business being honored in this new United States of America.
Everyday I wonder, what more can the ignorant socialist liberal democrats do to hurt our country? And yes everyday, there is some new form of BS that they promote. God help us all.
They need to turn their sights to current day slavers, such as in Africa and other middle east nations. We can’t change what happened yesterday but we can change what is currently happening. Of course these weak , self centered , victim hood “Americans” aren’t interested in truth nor making change where it might actually have an impact.
I would like to know why my post earlier was not posted??? Could it be because Jesus was mentioned??
Rev. Al your an insult to my family ! have you paid your taxes yet AL or did Obama give you another pass?
They can all go to Liberia, the evil white man set that country up for all the free black people to go back to Africa, if they felt homesick. So let’s deport those who don’t like it here. They can return to Africa and live there. We don’t need their shenanigans here, that’s for sure. That country has been open to them since about 1820, when it was established by the EVIL WHITE MEN.
Dear Round Robin…The c Cherokee, who went on the trail of tears, were aligned with the British in the War of 1812. They were enemy combatants who were exiled after losing the war. Get it ? They could have been made into slaves, or executed. That’s the way it was back then. If you lost the war, you could lose everything, including your possessions, your freedom, or your life. They were allowed to live and given a new home, with government assistance.
Ummm, it was the Europeans that invaded, took their land, reneged on treaties, and forced them (Trail of Tears) onto reservations.
THEY JUST PICKED THE WRONG COUNTRY TO LIVE IN! GO SOME PLACE ELSE WHERE YOU LIKE THE HISTORIC FOUNDERS AND CAN ENJOY YOUR PERSONAL LIBERTIES! BYE BYE!!
I smell Soros and his foundations. With all his money he is waging war against our traditions, beliefs, Constitution, Rights. He and his friends are behind a lot of this, and Killery blows his horn.
What is wrong with the left? Or maybe it should be “what is right with the Left”? They have all gone batsht crazy, and it’s been headed this way for decades, not just today, although it’s becoming more and more obvious that they’re all whacko. History has been taught for a reason, to let us know where we came from, why we’re where we are at today, and hopefully, not to make the same mistakes. They want to wipe it out? What is wrong with them, and I mean all of them????
Ah, yes, COMPOUND IGNORANCE! School administrators and Californians. The kids never had a chance!
INTERESTING:
“At age 11, George Washington inherited 10 slaves from his father. In those days in Virginia, the institution of slavery was considered “a given”……………
“Washington made provisions in his will to free all of his own slaves but could not free those (or the descendants of those) whom Martha had brought to the marriage. By Virginia law, her grandchildren would inherit her “dower slaves.” Because the two groups had intermarried, emancipation of Washington’s slaves proved bittersweet.
“By freeing his slaves, George Washington tried to set an example for others to follow. He was the only slaveholder among the founding fathers to free all his slaves.”
WHY AREN’T THEY TEACHING “THIS”?: “By freeing his slaves, George Washington tried to set an example for others to follow. He was the only slaveholder among the founding fathers to free all his slaves.”
WHAT A NATION OF DISGUSTING, LIBERAL, SOCIALIST, WEAKLING, WIMPY, WHINNY, CRYBABY, INVERTEBRATE JELLYFISH DEMOCRATS!
These whiners would probly belong to Englnad without George Washington – & they would be paying tribute to the QUEEN! They don’t deserve to be called Americans! George Washington was a man appointed by GOD to make this a nation – a CHRISTIAN nation! And these wimpy students (& no doubt their teachers!) are slapping God & Washington in the face! George suffered terribly to make us a nation! ? Schools are NOT teaching important history! ☹️?
communism and religion have been doing this for ever ,the globalist NWO is definitely doing this ,this is why schools are not teaching this but are socialism ,socialism is a nice soft word many believe its butter flies and flowers ,theres all kinds of moves portraying socialism like that but communism is still seen as all bad mostly because Russia ,they say because of schools and the liberals pushing the NWO that by 2050 every few people will know what the meaning of freedom is ,most will fear the word never knowing the truth