Wednesday, July 15, 2020

There is no end


From Legal Insurrection

Vermont Law School will paint over a mural depicting abolitionists helping blacks escape slavery because several students and alumni complained, reports the Valley News.

“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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