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George Washington High School in San Francisco, California, plans to remove an “offensive” mural of George Washington. At a school board meeting this week, no board members spoke in defense of the historical art, which one speaker claims causes “visual offense.”

According to a local news report, George Washington High School in San Francisco plans to erase a 13-panel mural from 1936 that depicts George Washington. Many critics of the mural have condemned its depictions of slaves and Native Americans. Now, the school is on the verge of removing the mural altogether.

Breitbart News originally reported on the push to remove the mural in May, when alumni backed the calls for removal. Although many members in the local community, including students, have argued in favor of keeping the mural, others still insist that it be taken down. At a meeting that was held on June 18, not even one school board member argued that the mural should stay up.

“Why do we have to explain the pain caused by visual offense that we see in that building that is supposed to be an institution of learning,” one local said.

Others, still, are pushing back against calls to paint over the historical art piece. “We should be teaching about the mural and what it means. I’m half native American. I have no problem with the mural. It depicts what happened,” another local added.

Joel Britton, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor, surprisingly argued in favor of keeping the mural. “Destroying or covering it would be an act of censorship and a blow to freedom of expression that would set a precedent for further such actions,” Britton said. “Censorship creates precedents that will always come down hardest on the working class, including African American, Latinos, Native American, and Asian American working people.”

Stay tuned to Breitbart News for more updates on this story.

‘I was not told George Washington owned slaves’

By Grabien Staff

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LEE: “I have to say the reason why I’m wearing this hat and pullover is that many years ago the first slaves were brought to the country in Jamestown, Virginia, 1619 and 2019. I think a lot of people need to know this. Because this — this is part of American history, which is not all good. You know, I think that when I was in public school in Brooklyn, New York, I was not told George Washington owned slaves. I was told he chopped down a cherry tree and wouldn’t tell a lie. In 1492, this guy, this terrorist sailed the ocean blue. I mean, we have to start teaching — I feel, my opinion, let’s be honest about our history and — and let’s move forward.”

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By Joseph Curl

To hear former president Barack Obama tell it, America isn’t that exceptional (“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism,” he said shortly after moving into the White House).

And to Obama, America is pretty racist (just this month Obama said “we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues.”) What’s more, the mainstream media has been painting President Trump as an avowed racist since before he took office.

So it should come as no surprise that the young people of today don’t think America is the “greatest” country, but they do think the nation is racist.

In a survey of 1,078 Americans, conducted by polling firm YouGov and sponsored by the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness (FLAG), finds that younger Americans (under 38 years old – Gen Z and Millennials), also think America is sexist. Some 46% of those polled don’t agree that “America is the greatest country in the world,” half (50%) think the U.S. is sexist, 49% say the country is racist and 47% say America’s future should be driven by socialism over capitalism.

Among the survey’s other findings:

– 38% of younger Americans do not agree that “America has a history that we should be proud of”

– One in eight (14%) of millennials agree that “America was never a great country and it never will be”

– 46% of younger Americans agree that “America is more racist than other countries”

– 84% of Americans do not know the specific rights enumerated in the First Amendment

– 19% of millennials believe that the American flag is “a sign of intolerance and hatred”

– 44% of younger Americans believe Barack Obama had a “bigger impact” on America than George Washington

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“We suspected that we would find decreasing numbers of Americans well-versed in our nation’s most important principles and young people less patriotic than the generations that came before, but we were totally unprepared for what our national survey reveals: an epidemic of anti-Americanism. said Nick Adams, Founder of FLAG.

“That half of millennials and Gen Z believe that the country in which they live is both ‘racist’ and ‘sexist’ shows that we have a major fraction of an entire generation that has been indoctrinated by teachers starting in grade school that America is what’s wrong with the world,” Adams said.

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To hear former president Barack Obama tell it, America isn’t that exceptional (“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism,” he said shortly after moving into the White House).

George Washington High School in San Francisco, California, plans to remove an “offensive” mural of George Washington. At a school board meeting this week, no board members spoke in defense of the historical art, which one speaker claims causes “visual offense.”

‘I was not told George Washington owned slaves’

To hear former president Barack Obama tell it, America isn’t that exceptional (“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism,” he said shortly after moving into the White House).