They're teaching them, so it's okay........
This mural has been removed from the South Cumberland Elementary School in Tennessee.
CAC...that painted it......attempting to justify this trash... : William Thompson https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10212991353077062&id=1188851800
This is a link to the artist who drew the suddenly controversial painting at the school. Pardon the language.
(CNN)A painting of a Confederate flag and a mural depicting a lynching have been removed from the walls of a Tennessee school gymnasium.
The mural showed a white man, dressed in blue, hanging from a rope tied to a tree branch. Another person was standing nearby, in a red jersey, and holding a Confederate flag.
The painting was intended to depict an athletic team rivalry.
It's unclear how long the paintings have been inside the South Cumberland Elementary School, located 100 miles east of Nashville, but a complaint was first made in December by a concerned janitor of a nearby elementary school.
On Friday, after months of calls and emails to the superintendent and the school board, David Clark, took his concerns public.
"Germany does not display Nazi symbols. This is not heritage, it is racism," he wrote on a Facebook post.
"No action has been planned or taken as of today so I am asking people to call and let them know in a respectful manner, how you feel about these racist symbols being on full public display where children can see them."
Less than 24 hours later, the post had at least 500 comments and more than 200 shares. Later that same day, the Confederate flag was gone and the mural was repainted to scrap the lynching.
"Concerns regarding graphics in our gymnasium have been dealt with by removing the rebel flags painted on the wall, and by modifying the mural on the wall as well," school principal Darrell Threet said in a statement to CNN.
"I guarantee you the black children noticed it, and the white children don't need to see this either," Clark told CNN.
"Removing it didn't seem like a priority... but white supremacy in this country is becoming too organized and too emboldened to ignore something like this in our schools," he said. "I am glad they got to painting, but I am not sure why they ever wanted lynching a part of their school spirit."
But by Saturday the comments below Clark's post had turned vitriolic, and were overwhelmingly in favor of the mural in its original form.
Some Facebook users mocked the proponents of the removal as "unpatriotic" and disrespectful of Southern heritage.
One Crossville resident told CNN affiliate WZTV she had no problem with the mural.
"It's part of our heritage and how they were brought up so I just don't have a problem with flying the rebel flag," Wendy Reed said. "Kid hanging that would bother me, but sometimes I think we just make it bigger than it needs to be."
Confederate symbols have been hotly debated since deadly protests by white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year.
Amy K Guinn
Please. Because he is biracial it negates the clear parallel to lynching? Nope. Not anymore than the rebel flag becomes acceptable because some crazy black guy on you tube carries it around for attention.
God knows what this person, as a kid, experienced to put images like that in his head when he sat to paint a gym wall... Must have been pretty deeply immersed in hate and bias.
Really sad for him that his professed "legacy" is really shitty art that reveals what a screwed up Moral environment he was in.
Now about that rebel flag?... What lame excuses do you have to explain that away?
Soooo pathetic and twisted that people are emotionally attached to a bad racist lynching cartoon to the point of bug eyed fury.
William Thompson
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10212991353077062&id=1188851800
This is a link to the artist who drew the suddenly controversial painting at the school. Pardon the language.
CAC RESPONSE SYSTEM ALERT HERE:
Braden Browning
The murals have been in our school forever one person that doesn't even live in crossville should not be able to change that
Translation...it's okay because it's been there like, forever dude !!!
Amy K Guinn
Racism is everyones business. Your school system has ignored complaints for years, and had since December to take action on this before it was posted to Facebook.
Transparency must be a bitch when you're a racism apologist.
Damian Smith
Techincally we are all biracial....why we are at it why dont we ask the American Indians how they like living on their reservations because the current government put them their against their will....sounds like slavery to me and the flag of that country is the United States
Melinda Hart Naderi
Why in the world would a school have something like this to represent their team? A lynching? Schools should promote and instill high ideals, like citizenship, honesty and fairness. This mural reminds me of drawings fifth grade boys used to get in trouble for in school.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/us/hanging-confederate-mural/index.html
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This mural has been removed from the South Cumberland Elementary School in Tennessee.
CAC...that painted it......attempting to justify this trash...
: William Thompson https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10212991353077062&id=1188851800This is a link to the artist who drew the suddenly controversial painting at the school. Pardon the language.
(CNN)A painting of a Confederate flag and a mural depicting a lynching have been removed from the walls of a Tennessee school gymnasium.
The mural showed a white man, dressed in blue, hanging from a rope tied to a tree branch. Another person was standing nearby, in a red jersey, and holding a Confederate flag.
The painting was intended to depict an athletic team rivalry.
It's unclear how long the paintings have been inside the South Cumberland Elementary School, located 100 miles east of Nashville, but a complaint was first made in December by a concerned janitor of a nearby elementary school.
On Friday, after months of calls and emails to the superintendent and the school board, David Clark, took his concerns public.
"Germany does not display Nazi symbols. This is not heritage, it is racism," he wrote on a Facebook post.
"No action has been planned or taken as of today so I am asking people to call and let them know in a respectful manner, how you feel about these racist symbols being on full public display where children can see them."
Less than 24 hours later, the post had at least 500 comments and more than 200 shares. Later that same day, the Confederate flag was gone and the mural was repainted to scrap the lynching.
"I guarantee you the black children noticed it, and the white children don't need to see this either," Clark told CNN.
"Removing it didn't seem like a priority... but white supremacy in this country is becoming too organized and too emboldened to ignore something like this in our schools," he said. "I am glad they got to painting, but I am not sure why they ever wanted lynching a part of their school spirit."
But by Saturday the comments below Clark's post had turned vitriolic, and were overwhelmingly in favor of the mural in its original form.
Some Facebook users mocked the proponents of the removal as "unpatriotic" and disrespectful of Southern heritage.
One Crossville resident told CNN affiliate WZTV she had no problem with the mural.
"It's part of our heritage and how they were brought up so I just don't have a problem with flying the rebel flag," Wendy Reed said. "Kid hanging that would bother me, but sometimes I think we just make it bigger than it needs to be."
Confederate symbols have been hotly debated since deadly protests by white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year.
David Clark
about a week ago
"These murals are in South Cumberland Elementary in Crossville. They are both in one public school elementary gym where all the children go to play every day. I have been in contact with school board and Janet Graham Superintendent since mid December about having them painted over. No action has been planned or taken as of today so I am asking people to call and let them know in a respectful manner, how you feel about these racist symbols being on full public display where children can see them.
Germany does not display Nazi symbols. This is not heritage, it is racism.
South Cumberland Elementary phone is 931-788-6713.
The Cumberland Co. School District, the website has an “Annual Notice of Non-Discrimination,”
The following people have been designated to the handle the inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies, Mr. Dan Schlafer, Director of Federal Programs, Title IX Coordinator, Cumberland
County Schools, 368 Fourth Street, Crossville, Tennessee 38555, 931-484-6135
dschlafer@k12tn.net
Mrs. Vicki Presson, Director of Special Education, 504 / Title II (ADA) Coordinator,
Cumberland County Schools, 368 Fourth Street, Crossville, Tennessee 38555, 931-
484-6135, pressonv1@ccschools.k12tn.net
about a week ago
"These murals are in South Cumberland Elementary in Crossville. They are both in one public school elementary gym where all the children go to play every day. I have been in contact with school board and Janet Graham Superintendent since mid December about having them painted over. No action has been planned or taken as of today so I am asking people to call and let them know in a respectful manner, how you feel about these racist symbols being on full public display where children can see them.
Germany does not display Nazi symbols. This is not heritage, it is racism.
South Cumberland Elementary phone is 931-788-6713.
The Cumberland Co. School District, the website has an “Annual Notice of Non-Discrimination,”
The following people have been designated to the handle the inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies, Mr. Dan Schlafer, Director of Federal Programs, Title IX Coordinator, Cumberland
County Schools, 368 Fourth Street, Crossville, Tennessee 38555, 931-484-6135
dschlafer@k12tn.net
Mrs. Vicki Presson, Director of Special Education, 504 / Title II (ADA) Coordinator,
Cumberland County Schools, 368 Fourth Street, Crossville, Tennessee 38555, 931-
484-6135, pressonv1@ccschools.k12tn.net
Amy K Guinn
Please. Because he is biracial it negates the clear parallel to lynching? Nope. Not anymore than the rebel flag becomes acceptable because some crazy black guy on you tube carries it around for attention.
God knows what this person, as a kid, experienced to put images like that in his head when he sat to paint a gym wall... Must have been pretty deeply immersed in hate and bias.
Really sad for him that his professed "legacy" is really shitty art that reveals what a screwed up Moral environment he was in.
Now about that rebel flag?... What lame excuses do you have to explain that away?
Soooo pathetic and twisted that people are emotionally attached to a bad racist lynching cartoon to the point of bug eyed fury.
William Thompson
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10212991353077062&id=1188851800
This is a link to the artist who drew the suddenly controversial painting at the school. Pardon the language.
CAC RESPONSE SYSTEM ALERT HERE:
Braden Browning
The murals have been in our school forever one person that doesn't even live in crossville should not be able to change that
Translation...it's okay because it's been there like, forever dude !!!
Amy K Guinn
Racism is everyones business. Your school system has ignored complaints for years, and had since December to take action on this before it was posted to Facebook.
Transparency must be a bitch when you're a racism apologist.
Damian Smith
Techincally we are all biracial....why we are at it why dont we ask the American Indians how they like living on their reservations because the current government put them their against their will....sounds like slavery to me and the flag of that country is the United States
Melinda Hart Naderi
Why in the world would a school have something like this to represent their team? A lynching? Schools should promote and instill high ideals, like citizenship, honesty and fairness. This mural reminds me of drawings fifth grade boys used to get in trouble for in school.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/us/hanging-confederate-mural/index.html
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