The War on History Comes for George Washington
Jarrett Stepman / @JarrettStepman / May 20, 2019
They finally came for George Washington.
The perpetual war on history now has the father of our country in its sights as the San Francisco Board of Education considers removing a mural of Washington from a local school.
If the board succeeds in politicizing Washington, whose legacy was once so secured and uniting that his home at Mount Vernon was considered neutral ground during the Civil War, then we have clearly crossed the Rubicon of social division.
Critics of the mural point out that, in addition to Washington, it also depicts slaves and Native Americans—and one of the Native Americans appears to be dead.
They have called the artwork offensive, and the school board says it “traumatizes students†and “glorifies slavery, genocide, colonization, manifest destiny, white supremacy, oppression, etc.,†according to The Wall Street Journal.
But the original intent of the mural was actually the exact opposite.
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