Offensive or important? Debate flares anew over SF school mural depicting slavery

Jill Tucker and Gwendolyn Wu | San Francisco Chronicle | 7th April 2019

There are calls for the removal from a San Francisco school of a 1930’s mural depicting slaves and a slain Native American. Some see it as “traumatic” and/or glorifying oppression. Others argue that it portrays, without approval, those violent parts of American history – it is “a historic mural by a renowned artist”. The school head says “I do understand the sensitivity about it being art. It’s difficult”.