U. of Rhode Island to Remove WWII Murals Due to Lack of Diversity

NorthwestFresh

Tell me how liberalism isn’t a mental illness?

https://twitter.com/realjameswoods/status/1303845161823211523?s=21

Doog_de_Jour

This report might be outdated. The artist and his family spoke to the school and it looks like there’s support for having it preserved:

https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20200906/uri-might-preserve-rsquo50s-murals-from-student-union

Here’s part of the mural BTW:

NorthwestFresh

Hopefully that’s the case. Now about the Denver airport murals...

dflea

Doog_de_Jour said:

This report might be outdated. The artist and his family spoke to the school and it looks like there’s support for having it preserved:

https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20200906/uri-might-preserve-rsquo50s-murals-from-student-union

Here’s the mural BTW:

Wait - that's the mural?

lol

NorthwestFresh

dflea said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

This report might be outdated. The artist and his family spoke to the school and it looks like there’s support for having it preserved:

https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20200906/uri-might-preserve-rsquo50s-murals-from-student-union

Here’s the mural BTW:

Wait - that's the mural?

lol

It looks like something out of a children’s book. I say take it down because it’s an embarrassment.

thechatch

JFC

RaceBannon

For some reason the Lewis and Clark theater mural comes to mind

Doog_de_Jour

From reading the articles, the mural was not a WWII mural, but one that shows how former soldiers benefited from the GI bill and how “better days were here”.

LebamDawg

Doog_de_Jour said:

From reading the articles, the mural was not a WWII mural, but one that shows how former soldiers benefited from the GI bill and how “better days were here”.

reading the articles? are you knew hear?