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In one mural in question, Native Americans steer canoes for a white man, who is standing, while one man, wearing a headdress, gestures across the water.
“Unless CPS plans to show the slaughter of indigenous Americans and white invaders passing out Small Pox infected blankets, enslaved Africans in chains being whipped, raped and sold, then remove it all,” another person wrote. “The days of painting early white Americans as saviors are over. Tell the whole truth.”
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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An excellent book is “The Inland Empire” about the widespread territory controlled by various Apache tribes for hundreds of years. The accounts of what the natives did to white settlers and other tribal rivals is chilling. Brutality was the norm and incredibly sadistic tortures were often the evening entertainment. And frequently women and children got the worst of it. No question the whites did a lot of dirty deeds, but the natives were no angels either.
The comment forum referenced in the Tribune article is located on the CPS BoE “Proposed Policies or Rule Changes Open for Public Comment” website. https://cps.edu/About_CPS/The_Board_of_Education/Pages/PublicComment.aspx There are 63 or so comments posted under the “February Policies” title “Acquisition, Ownership, Conservation and Maintenance of the Chicago Public Schools’ Works of Art Policy.” Here is a comment from that website from a person highlighted in the Tribune article. “Posted on 2020-01-14 12:28:18 PM (CST) by Sarah E. Dennis, Ph.D. PLEASE REMOVE IMMEDIATELY the racist and offensive art at the West Side offices (2615 W. Washington) AND throughout CPS buildings, if there are… Read more »
Sarah has her own website showcasing her SJW tendencies. She gives workshops about microaggressions. Sarah is a bad, bad, evil person, who hates you and everything you stand for, and wants to destroy you, and given the chance, she will throw you into a reeducation camp. It is scary that she works with children….
Board Policy 20-0226-PO2: Rescind Board Report 00-0223-PO1 and Adopt a New Acquisition, Ownership,
Conservation, and Maintenance of the Chicago Public Schools’ Works of Art Policy.
PDF pages 43 – 49 of the February 26, 2020 Chicago Board of Education agenda packet.
http://www.cpsboe.org/content/documents/february_26_2020_agenda_to_post.pdf
How about showing the PBS “American Experience” “The Chinese Exclusion Act” to classes. The Statue of Liberty was erected at the same time that law was passed. Chinese children were segregated in their own public schools, which is ironic since now the education advocates are trying to figure out how to integrate them with other races in schools. I was surprised to learn that a lot of the struggle for civil rights actually began with discrimination against the Chinese. You can watch it on Amazon Prime.
Great idea. Instead of murals of America’s history, let’s show life as it was in the Americas before the blue-eyed devils showed up. The students can paint murals of the aztecs sacrificing hundreds of thousands of the children of their enemies and eating their beating hearts alive; or Native americans scalping the skulls of neighboring tribes, or how prior to the arrival of europeans, the indigious north americans hunted to extinction all of the large mammals. The murals can show the Mayan slave markets, where hundreds of thousands were bought and sold by the few elites; and nearly everyone else,… Read more »
The kids would freak out if they were shown Walt Disney’s Davy Crockett in class. LOL. Or we could show them Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” and tell them that movie is really about the Aztecs. Cortez conquered the Aztecs with the help of other tribes who hated them. They gave Cortez valuable intelligence info and acted as guides over the country. There’s a great scene in “The Sand Pebbles” that pretty much sums up what happens when one culture encounters another. Jake Holman comes aboard the ship and sees coolies working in the engine room. Frenchy says –” Well it’s like… Read more »