This is a refreshing and understandable view point.
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University of Rhode Island to remove WW2 murals due to lack of diversity
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This is a refreshing and understandable view point.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
That would explain the lack of diversity."The murals depict servicemen returning to Kingston, a class reunion, URI commencement, a South County beach scene, and students piled into a jalopy wearing letter sweaters."
(URI Homepage)
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Apparently, the reason why you only see white people there is that URI used to be an all-white college in the 1950s.
PureX
Veteran Member
All things pass away. I don't see this mural as being of exceptional cultural or historical significance. So it seems to me that 70 years was a good run, and maybe it's time for something new. I would have said 20 years was a good run. There's nothing wrong with updating our displays of respect, unity, achievement, etc.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
For whom I wonder.
Why not just color in some of the faces so everyone can feel represented?
Can't have folks thinking it is only White people that go to war.
Exactly my thought.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
So just somebody some day wants to tear them down again?
Whats the point? Just leave the wall bare.
Or replace it with a giant multi-colored middle finger.
This old discussion again, eh.
I prefer to leave the mural, & add contemporary info &
complementary works. It would be a shame if WW2
faded into oblivion (ie, history books only).
PureX
Veteran Member
Do "points" require permanence? The point is that the people and events that we want to honor, today, will pass into history, and we will want to honor new people and events, tomorrow. Life goes on.
PureX
Veteran Member
It will, it is, and that's as it should be. Time brings change.
Sounds like a Taliban quote about how those old statues must go.
PureX
Veteran Member
No it doesn't, and that was a silly comment.
To want to remove offensive art from view is talibanesque.
The big difference is which eyes are offended by what.
PureX
Veteran Member
Someone is always going to be offended by something. That's mostly irrelevant. That's the nature of the creative endeavor. But what matters to us changes over time. As it should do. So if this mural no longer reflects what matters to us, then it's time to paint a new one that does. It's just a local mural. It's not the Pyramids of Giza.
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It never is significant to those who want offensive art removed.
And the Taliban had even better justification (from their perspective)
because the statues were blasphemous....a crime worthy of the
death penalty. But the murals....just lacking diversity.
In a sense...I insulted the Taliban with the comparison.
Tambourine
Well-Known Member
It's almost as bad as removing Confederate Participation Trophies.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
This generation doesn't want history. They think its not important.
You remember my proposal to Andrew Jackson's statue, don't you?
Protesters attempt to tear down statue of Andrew Jackson in DC