Good Lord - let's all deny history.....good idea on this May Day in which
many celebrate Communist ideas....
I say fight it and go public via your city newspaper and media... The mural
sounds wonderful.
Allan
Dr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo (Brother Donogh Allan, MGC)
Bishop Kearney High School Library
125 Kings Highway South
Rochester, New York 14617
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acuseo@bkhs.org
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Averett" <daverett@KERRVANCE.COM>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:58 PM
Subject: [LM_NET] GEN: Censorship of Mural
> Hello Wise Ones,
>
> I need help!! Just outside my library door is a beautiful mural done by
students about six years ago. The Frederick Douglass quotation (Once you
learn to read you will be forever free) is painted over the door. On one
side are two girls (one white, one black) reading a book under a blooming
tree. On the other side is a black boy looking up towards an open book with
his broken slavery chains following away from his wrists.
>
> Apparently an outside group touring our school suggested that the slave
boy was insensitive...I think the viewer didn't bother to read the
quote...so now our Board of Trustees president has pretty much mandated that
the entire mural be painted over...preferably over a week-end.
>
> YIKES!!! I've contacted the parents of some of the artists (these kids
are now finishing their freshmen years at college) to ask for support. I
honestly don't know if the mural will be here when I return on Monday.
>
> What must I do? Someone suggested that we just paint over the boy's
chains, but I say that changes the whole message and it still smacks of
censorship. Am I being unreasonable?
>
> Thanks for any advice you can give. I know it's hard since you can't see
the mural but it really is lovely.
>
> --
> Diane Averett/Librarian
> Kerr-Vance Academy
> 700 Vance Academy Rd.
> Henderson, NC 27537
> daverett@kerrvance.com
> --
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