People today who are offended/traumatized and otherwise terrorized by history are ____________ you fill in the blank, 'cause I cannot find the right word for it.

a $600,000 paint job, could support one newly hired SFUSD teacher for more than six years (SFUSD is currently experiencing a teacher shortage)

The Chicago Teachers Union Pension was the only one not to experience losses a few years back.

State of Illinois pension fund made poor investments and was forced to cut pensions by 20%.

I think these students need to study more history so they are aware of the sacrifices made by the Founders of this nation. They were all men of wealth and the pledged their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" in the quest for independence from the British.

Several of the homes of signers of the Declaration of Independence were burned in retaliation. They were all considered to be rebels and could be hung if caught. ;)

The average Public School Teacher salary in San Francisco, CA is $71,738 as of May 31, 2019, but the range typically falls between $62,630 and $82,819.

$61/Hour Wage Needed To Rent 2-Bedroom In San Francisco, $54/Hour In San Jose

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/06/20/housing-wage-61-san-francisco-54-san-jose-nlihc/

Wage Needed To Rent A Two-Bedroom (Bay Area Counties In Bold):

1 (tie). Marin – $60.96 / hour

1 (tie). San Francisco – $60.96

1 (tie). San Mateo – $60.96

4. Santa Clara – $54.60

5. Santa Cruz – $46.90

6 (tie). Alameda – $40.88

6 (tie). Contra Costa – $40.88

8. San Diego – $39.77

9. Honolulu – $39.75

10. Orange, CA – $39.17

$54/Hour In San Jose

I knew this girl in suburban Denver. She told me she lost her wallet with all her pay. So I sent her $100 to help out.

The next thing she shows up in San Jose. I wonder how many guys she told that story to get enough cash to move? :-/

It started with us reading Aristotle's Poetics, then on to a couple of the Platonic dialogues and Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Then we read the Oedipus Cycle. Then it was on to modern literature. Gustav Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Melville's Billy Budd and then we finished with a few plays, Death of a Salesman and 2 others.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{Yawn}}}}}}}}}}}}}} As an average HS student I would have been comatose and a likely drop out ! What a load of busywork ! It's a wonder Horse didn't start robbing liquor stores. (Just being sarcastic).

Today's education is based upon a different BUDD (smells like skunk), MTV and the femail section of the Daily Mail. Our modern utopian High Schoolers are content to debate the really relevant issues such as transgender rights, free education (is it worth what ya pay for it ? ), and reparations for the long term effects and damage due to Trump derangement syndrome.

but a 13-member working group asserts the mural must go. It "glorifies slavery, genocide, colonization, manifest destiny, white supremacy, oppression," and "doesn't represent SFUSD values of social justice, diversity, united, student-centered." It's also responsible for traumatizing students, according to the activists.

To call these stooges a "working group" is a stretch when in all likelihood they haven't really ever had to "work" ! Does covering the painting change the facts ? No, it's simply another attack upon normalcy and a rewriting of history. Slavery had been in vogue around the world for milleniums and had included all races and ethnicities. The founders couldn't have eliminated slavery immediately because they were at war and attempting to establish a nation. However, they did put the issue on the table and placed the limitation in the Constitution.

It's my opinion that the current load of asshats in D.C. and its subsidiary STATES in collusion with their fellow travelers in the media are hell bent on eliminating logic and substituting a screaming cry baby tantrum society that can't cope with a historic painting but just loves Miley Cyrus sticking her ass in everyone's face.

Sometimes I sit in disbelief that we have been poked and prodded into this death spiral of dissipating values and acceptance or tolerance of horseshit that is made up by humans with purple fucking hair that can't figure out what sex they are and distributed by Amazon, by FAKEBOOK, and the mainstream national media in order to form "a more perfect union" which forces the normal working class to fund and finance the idiocy that bombards us every hour of every day.

The pendulum swings both ways and ultimately those most ill effected by whatever oppression is foisted upon them will lash out. So as we wander aimlessly into the abyss of a country swelling with Congolese and Somalian rapists, Mexican drug gangs, sanctuary shit holes, and never ending wars in the middle east, smile pilgrims because you're fucking free (and get your ass back to work).

At 87 think how I feel about such horseshit.

Miley Cyrus

We worked Billy Ray Cyrus in Chicago at Rosemont. He was taking too many gifts from the fans and they had to pull the plug on him. LOL

Painted in the mid-1930s by a "Russian-American artist named Victor Arnautoff, who held leftist sympathies," the mural actually depicts Washington setting controversial priorities, sending men to conquer the west at the expense of Native Americans, and plotting the future of a free United States ... "what actually happened" when Washington dispatched pioneers to conquer the west.

nationalreview.com - The mural was created by a Russian émigré named Victor Arnatauff, an actual Communist ... It’s hard to overstate how rock-stupid this controversy is. ... In the scene with the dead Native American, Washington points toward a band of armed explorers in buckskin marching [over by] the native’s corpse. He isn’t looking at the body, however: He’s facing in the other direction, conversing with other Founders over a map of North America.

Victor Arnautoff - Wikipedia

richmondsfblog.com - From the article comments: "certain lessons learned about 'trigger' art–and what is desperately needed in response is education. ... who Arnautoff was, etc. One can have an uneducated reaction or an educated reaction." ... "[Arnautoff] was professor [of art] at Stanford [University] for 20 years." ... "left-wing, to the point of joining the Communist Party" ... "Interesting that Victor Arnautoff chose to return to live in the USSR in 1963."

Article excerpts:

Pic: Victor Arnautoff, Self Portrait, c:1950 - Arnautoff painted this self-portrait opposing HR 9490, the McCarran Internal Security Act, which required Communist organizations to register with the U.S. Attorney General and established the Subversive Activities Control Board. Photo Credit: With kind permission of INVA publishing house, Russia

When George Washington High School opened its doors in August 1936, 1,600 square feet of its interior walls were covered with a a series of murals depicting the life of the school’s namesake, and the country’s first President, George Washington.
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At the time of its completion, Arnautoff’s George Washington murals were the largest [FDR "New Deal"] WPA-funded, single-artist mural suite on the Pacific Coast.
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Two of the thirteen panels in the mural series have come under fire since the 1960’s for their controversial depictions of African-Americans and Native Americans.

In one mural, entitled “Mount Vernon”, George Washington appears to be in conversation with another Caucasian man who gestures towards a seated African-American man holding corn, presumably a slave. In other parts of the mural, African-Americans are engaged in acts of manual labor like hauling large bales of hay and picking cotton in the fields, while Caucasian men are also laboring at other tasks with tools. Washington’s servant, who is pictured holding his horse, is also African-American. The mural is a clear depiction of slavery in the United States, and of George Washington as a slave owner.

Pic: The “Mt. Vernon” mural by Victor Arnautoff at George Washington High School. [Ref. Martha Washington for more details]
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The second panel, entitled ‘Westward Vision”, depicts Benjamin Franklin and other founding fathers looking at George Washington as he points off in the distance, while he points with his other hand to a map. On the right side of the mural, as if carrying out Washington’s call for westward expansion, [ghostly] frontiersmen, depicted in greyscale unlike other figures in the mural, stand over the dead body of a Native American man,

In the bottom right of the “Westward Vision” panel, a frontiersman and Native American chief sit at a campfire smoking a peace pipe. On the ground at the chief’s feet is a tomahawk, symbolizing the disarming of Native tribes. Directly above the Chief’s headdress is a broken tree limb representing broken treaties made by the U.S. government with Native Americans, and broken promises

Pic: The “Westward Vision” mural by Victor Arnautoff at George Washington High School.
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Robert Cherny, a professor emeritus at San Francisco State University who wrote a biography about Victor Arnautoff, believes the artist was presenting “a “counter narrative” to the prevailing high school textbooks of the time because his representation of the westward expansion included the slaughter of Native Americans, ... “He put those ghastly gray pioneers literally walking [over by the] body of an Indian to demonstrate that the settlement of the west was an act of conquest that involved the slaughter of Native Americans,” Cherny said at a 2018 Board of Education meeting.

Former Board of Education member Shamann Walton wasn’t buying Cherny’s interpretation of Arnautoff’s work at that 2018 meeting.

“I don’t understand how people who are not affected by the depiction of a mural could come in here and tell us how Native Americans and Indians should see the mural and what’s on there, when (Native Americans) came here and told us it was offensive to them and they said that these murals caused problems and issues for their community,” Walton said at the meeting.

“I don’t see how anybody could come up here and try to tell us how positive that is, or what the positive point of view is. It‘s insulting to me that anybody who is not affected by the depiction can come in here and try to do that.”
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YouTube Video: @ 0:26-0:32 [Ref. Overmountain Men] ; @ 3:19-4:02 [Washington presiding over the Constitutional Convention of May 25 to September 17, 1787 ; Next, a speaker abstractly assumes that the black and white imagery of pioneers walking by (not over) an Indian is the Lewis and Clark Expedition of Thomas Jefferson's Presidency later: "something that's occurring in the future is painted as though it was in the past." More likely, it's a depiction about the Articles of Confederation Congress enacting the Northwest Ordinance on July 13, 1787 (about 2 months before the Constitutional Convention ended on September 17, 1787 but nearly 4 years after the Revolutionary War ended on September 3, 1783 when the Treaty of Paris was signed, whereby pre-war territories of colonial Britain had become America's Northwest Territory (lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains between British North America and the Great Lakes to the north, the Ohio River to the south and the upper Mississippi River as the western boundary). Those post-war territorial developments of U.S. jurisdiction and administration happened within that region during George Washington's lifetime - not in "the west" that was controlled by foreign empires (Spain, France and Britain + Russia in the Alaska area). Much of what America had acquired from Britain was the impassable Great Black Swamp - 1,500 square miles that was a mosquito nest of deadly diseases. Even the Indians didn't want to go there before it was drained by some pioneer men who dug ditches and canals for 30 years or so in the 1800s to make it habitable. Meanwhile, during the first year of George Washington's Presidency - in the Fall of 1789 - he had to contend with the British military occupation in the Northwest frontier and their concerted efforts to incite hostile Indian tribes to attack American settlers. The Northwest tribes ... allied with the British Army ... killed 1,500 settlers between 1783 and 1790.]
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The San Francisco Arts Commission ... The SFAC was involved in the removal of the “Early Days” statue from Civic Center in September 2018. In a February 2018 meeting, the SFAC voted to remove the statue because it depicted “the degradation and genocide of Native American peoples” [Excerpt from the linked article: depicted a Native American at the feet of a Catholic missionary and Spanish cowboy]

US is beyond pathetic.

At the time of its completion, Arnautoff’s George Washington murals were the largest [FDR "New Deal"] WPA-funded, single-artist mural suite on the Pacific Coast.

Pic: The “Mt. Vernon” mural by Victor Arnautoff at George Washington High School. [Ref. Martha Washington for more details]

Pic: The “Westward Vision” mural by Victor Arnautoff at George Washington High School.

Note re: The “Westward Vision” mural. This painting likely represents the enactment of the Northwest Ordinance by the Articles of Confederation Congress (on July 13, 1787) for the establishment of government administration in the formerly British-colonial region that became America's Northwest Territories at the end of the Revolutionary War (on September 3, 1783). Those boundaries were the extent of America's "Westward Vision" before the Louisiana Purchase from France during Thomas Jefferson's Presidency. (Ref. American pioneers to the Northwest Territory - 1788: the first permanent American settlement) The mural probably also depicts George Washington pointing with urgency toward the crucial years of ongoing conflict, casualties and Peace efforts within America's Northwest frontier lands from 1783, when the war with Britain had officially ended (but the British kept forts there), through the Northwest Indian War that ended in 1795 during the 2nd term of his Presidency. 1,500 settlers were killed between 1783 and 1790 and the United States military forces reportedly had many more casualties than their opponents by the time it ended in 1795.

San Francisco set to spend $600,000 to paint over 83-year-old mural of George Washington | Fox News Video - approx. 2.5 minutes [$600,000 paint : 10 new teachers at starting salaries (of $5,000 per month for each)]

Jul. 05, 2019 - 2:26 - The 'Life of Washington' mural depicts slaves, [ghostly] white pioneers and a [wounded? or] dead Native American; Claudia Cowan reports from San Francisco.

San Francisco school board votes to paint over George Washington mural | Fox News Video - 2.5 minutes

Jul. 08, 2019 - 5:21 - School board votes to remove historical mural depicting slavery; reaction from 'The Rubin Report' host Dave Rubin.

The San Francisco Arts Commission ... The SFAC was involved in the removal of the “Early Days” statue from Civic Center in September 2018. In a February 2018 meeting, the SFAC voted to remove the statue because it depicted “the degradation and genocide of Native American peoples” [Excerpt from the linked article: depicted a Native American at the feet of a Catholic missionary and Spanish cowboy]

Notre Dame to cover Christopher Columbus murals | Fox News video - 1.75 minutes

Jan. 22, 2019 - 1:44 - The murals, which date to the late 1800s and depict Columbus's trip to America and Native Americans greeting him on the shore, will be covered by a 'woven material consistent with the decor of the space.'

The cutting-edge war to erase our culture | by Roger Kimball | New York Post | February 22, 2019

The recent news that the University of Notre Dame, responding to complaints by some students, would “shroud” its twelve 134-year-old murals depicting Christopher Columbus was disappointing.

It was not surprising, however, to anyone who has been paying attention to the widespread attack on America’s past wherever social justice warriors congregate.

Queried about the censorship, Notre Dame’s president, the Rev. John Jenkins, said, apparently without irony, that his decision to cover the murals was not intended to conceal anything, but rather to tell “the full story” of Columbus’ activities.

Welcome to the new Orwellian world where censorship is free speech and we respect the past by attempting to elide it. [omit/alter/slur/suppress]

Over the past several years, we have seen a rising tide of assaults on statues and other works of art representing our nation’s history ... But it is worth noting that the monument controversy signifies something much larger than the attacks on the Old South or Italian explorers.

In the first place, the monument controversy involves not just artworks or commemorative objects. Rather, it encompasses the resources of the past writ large. It is an attack on the past for failing to live up to our contemporary notions of virtue.

In the background is the conviction that we, blessed members of the most enlightened cohort ever to grace the earth with its presence, occupy a moral plane superior to all who came before us. Consequently, the defacement of murals of Christopher Columbus — and statues of later historical figures like Teddy Roosevelt — is perfectly virtuous and above criticism since human beings in the past were by definition so much less enlightened than we.

What has happened in our culture and educational institutions that so many students jump from their feelings of being offended — and how delicate they are, how quick to take offense! — to self-righteous demands to repudiate the thing that offends them? The more expensive education becomes, the more it seems to lead, not to broader understanding but to narrower horizons.

Back in 1965, the Frankfurt School Marxist Herbert Marcuse wrote an essay called “Repressive Tolerance.” It is a totalitarian classic. Marcuse distinguished between two kinds of tolerance.

First, there is what he called “bad” or “false” tolerance. This is the sort of tolerance that most of us would call “true” tolerance, the sort of thing your parents taught you and that undergirds liberal democracy.

Second, there is what Marcuse calls “liberating tolerance,” which he defined as “intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.”

So here we are. The old idea of tolerance was summed up in such chestnuts as, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

The new dispensation is: “I disapprove of what you say, therefore you may not say it.”

The monument controversy shows the susceptibility of “liberating tolerance” to fanaticism. And it reminds us that in the great battle between the partisans of freedom and the inebriates of virtue, freedom is ultimately negotiable — until it rouses itself to fight back. At stake is nothing less than the survival of our common history.

Roger Kimball is editor of The New Criterion. This column was adapted from an essay in Imprimis, a Hillsdale College journal.

MORE ON: MONUMENT WARS

Columbus Circle statue will be a protected landmark | by Bob Fredericks | New York Post | December 6, 2018

The monument honoring Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle — which survived an attempt to have it removed — will now be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The National Park Service last month added the 126-year-old, 76-foot statue near Central Park [NYC, NY] to its list of protected landmarks,

Charlottesville's Confederate statues are war monuments: judge

Charlottesville's Confederate statues ruled war monuments | by Ebony Bowden | New York Post | April 30, 2019

In the nine-page decision, [Circuit Court Judge Richard E.] Moore also ruled it was illegal for municipalities to remove the statues without permission from the state. The decision strikes a major blow to the Charlottesville City Council who voted to remove the statue of Lee in early 2017.
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The city covered the statues of Lee and Jackson with black tarps ... but [Judge] Moore in February 2018 ruled they had to be removed.