DESTRUCTION OF ART

Political correctness is now coming to destroy art portraying good and bad things about the history of our country.

... seven members of the Board of Education in San Francisco ...  just voted unanimously to destroy [13] important 80-year-old wall murals in a public high school because they show George Washington, a dead Indian, and slaves. The murals, some said, glorify racism, genocide, Manifest Destiny, colonization, and white supremacy.*
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Victor Arnautoff (1896–1979) painted the 13 panel murals — covering 1,600 square feet — in 1936 for the just-built George Washington High School. They depict the life of Washington. They’re well done. Arnautoff was one of the best muralists employed by the Works Progress Administration.* 
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Arnautoff presented to young minds the nuances and contradictions, the good parts and bad parts, of America’s founding history. Some of the board members conceded this but insisted that exposing students to nuances and contradictions might scare them or, worse, hurt their feelings. Overwhelmingly, students don’t want the murals destroyed. The school’s alumni association wants them to remain, too. 

There is hope that the murals won't be painted over but covered by some panels.
While several Board members expressed a desire to paint over the murals, discussion made it clear that the quickest path to removing the offensive artwork from public view was to install panels to cover them up. So while the Board did ultimately vote, unanimously, to paint over the murals, they will most likely cover up the murals initially in the interest of an expedient solution to removing them from public view.**

Once the panels are up, there is hope, I think, that the murals will be preserved.  I also hope the panels are removable so that they may be displayed on some special occasions, perhaps in the summer while there are no classes.

* https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/san-francisco-board-of-education-george-washington-murals/
** https://richmondsfblog.com/2019/06/26/board-of-education-votes-to-cover-up-george-washington-high-school-wpa-murals/