From Legal Insurrection
“The depictions of the African-Americans on the
mural are offensive to many in our community and, upon reflection and
consultation, we have determined that the mural is not consistent with our
School’s commitment to fairness, inclusion, diversity, and social justice,”
said Dean Thomas McHenry in the email.
The colorful mural entitled “The Underground
Railroad, Vermont and the Fugitive Slave” depicts Africans being forced into
slavery and sold at auction, images of John Brown, Frederick Douglass and
Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a blond Vermont woman trying to block the view of a
bounty hunter looking for fugitives trying to escape slavery on the Underground
Railroad.
In an email, Jameson Davis and April Urbanowski complained that the features of the African Americans were exaggerated and wrote that "white colonizers who are responsible for the horrors of slavery should not also be depicted as saviors in the same light.”
Any depiction of whites
helping blacks is racist. Someone complains of historical accuracy, and an
administration caves. Okay. No more this system of whites helping blacks. The
federal Senate and House of Representatives are majority white. From here on,
those white people will not write or approve any bills to help black people. Black
people do not need the help of white people. They have never received help from
white people. Everything black people have achieved in this country, they did
on their own.
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