Historic WPA mural featuring only white children removed from Oak Park school
Chicago Sun Times,
by
Manny Ramos
Original Article
Posted By: RahmItThru,
4/20/2019 4:44:01 PM
A Depression-era mural depicting white children playing outside in the winter was removed from Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park because school officials said it failed to represent the school’s diversity.While some said the mural was upsetting to students of color who felt it excluded them from the school, a local historian likened the removal to a “modern-day book burning.” Julian Principal Todd Fitzgerald announced the weekend removal in an email sent to school staff Monday.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
cThree 4/20/2019 4:57:15 PM (No. 40323)
Know what, to my surprise I agree with the removal.
First, it wasn´t destroyed, which would have offended me. Second, it has only been in the school since 2002. It has no legacy there. (It was in a different school that closed.)Third, the school is correct, it doesn´t reflect the current face of the school. Kids notice.
If I were in charge, I´d make that space a display area for the artwork of current students. Yes, that takes more work than hanging a picture and forgetting about it.
But the mural has no claim to the space, and the administration, by removing it, assumes the obligation of putting that space to a better use.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2019 5:00:01 PM (No. 40325)
Probably no white kids at all in that school these days, and how many can actually speak English?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
flutepilot 4/20/2019 5:03:34 PM (No. 40314)
The current ´Governor´ of Wisconsin removed a picture of an Eagle from the Governor´s mansion and replaced it with a picture of black children playing - and had a news conference with much fanfare about it. Much more inclusive, you see...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
sunnyday 4/20/2019 5:06:43 PM (No. 40313)
When are folks going to get past this insanity? It is just a few that get their wheels greased: you have to be black, gay, muslim, illegal, etc. I am just a regular blue eyed, blonde, which offends everyone.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Namma 4/20/2019 5:07:30 PM (No. 40326)
It’s the it amazing. Take pictures down of all white kids playing. It does not show diversity. But open all borders and allow the one world order to take over which will rid the world of diversity. Makes sense to me!
These people are nuts!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Achilles 4/20/2019 5:33:00 PM (No. 40329)
How to ruin a good thing: Let all the diversity crowd into whatever area, club, activity is you like. You will be quitting the club or moving out of the neighborhood. They ruin everything.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Tusker 4/20/2019 5:34:28 PM (No. 40328)
The domestic Taliban in action.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
red1066 4/20/2019 5:39:02 PM (No. 40317)
The new mural will have nothing but Hispanic, Black, and a few White children. All of them girls, because anything else would reflect White Male privilege.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/20/2019 5:48:44 PM (No. 40320)
Poor Mona Lisa - her milky white skin will soon spark outrage and calls for covering her up. Ilhan and her ilk will lead the way.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 4/20/2019 5:52:35 PM (No. 40321)
could they re-do Leonardo´s Last Supper?
put MLK, Malcomlm X and Cesar Chavez in place of o few of the old White Guys?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ravenhaven 4/20/2019 6:22:46 PM (No. 40312)
It’s George Washington they’re after and they will not be sstisfied until they get him.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chumley 4/20/2019 6:35:57 PM (No. 40316)
We are white, so we aren´t allowed to have anything to say about it. Face it, we´ve lost.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Salt5792 4/20/2019 7:20:16 PM (No. 40310)
A mural of the recent Chicago riot would be informative.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/20/2019 7:34:57 PM (No. 40309)
Just maybe, back during the depression almost eighty years or so ago, there were only White children attending that school at the time, and that may just be a fact of history. A couple of hundred years ago there may also have been Native American tribes, who were all of one race and were not diverse residing in the area, do that want to deny and remove that facet of history also?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Shadow722 4/20/2019 7:58:58 PM (No. 40322)
It would´ve just been easier to paint in some gang banger´s doing a Drive-By. You know show Chi-Town how it really is??
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/20/2019 8:02:34 PM (No. 40319)
It´s like the modern Robin Hood movies where at least one black, Hispanic, Asian, and homosexual has to be in the Robin´s band of Merry Men. Diversity is more important than reality.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/20/2019 8:10:47 PM (No. 40318)
There are some wonderful paintings by Black artists from the 19th century, showing blacks picking cotton, or sitting in front of their slave house, or dancing to banjo music..
Should those paintings be destroyed?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/20/2019 8:14:43 PM (No. 40315)
"..coordinator for the middle school’s Social Justice Club..."
Jeez...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
RenoVet68 4/20/2019 8:23:32 PM (No. 40330)
It´s like giving everybody a trophy, retroactively,
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/20/2019 8:29:16 PM (No. 40308)
I´ll be filing a complaint with the Egyptian authorities. I´m offended that the ancient murals fail to reflect TODAY´S diversity. NOt a single pasty white European painted anywhere.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/20/2019 10:15:17 PM (No. 40332)
These anal retentive jerkweeds are actually causing racism. The retaliation is going to be a mutha.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
BreakRight 4/20/2019 10:35:14 PM (No. 40331)
Seems like they could have made a student art project out of recoloring some of the children in the mural as other races rather than destroying the entire mural.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
msjena 4/20/2019 11:30:24 PM (No. 40306)
How long before the other "sister" mural is removed from other school?
11 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/21/2019 12:49:24 AM (No. 40305)
As Obama would say: The TollyBohn in action.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/21/2019 2:22:36 AM (No. 40327)
I guess they can´t stand reminders of better days
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So weary of it all. Point is: can little Johnny read?
Odd how it´s okay to say "Historically black college" but not "Historic WPA mural"
Today I ran an errand. In this small business, I counted 8 people of foreign descent or color. At one point, I was the only white person there. Sometimes when I am at the hospital, the percentages are greater. Looking like an Albino.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Faithfully 4/21/2019 1:39:38 PM (No. 40324)
Not one hoodie or trousers under rumps. Outrageous!
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