Ah so this is where our tax dollars are going

[hothulamaui]

Originally Posted by MTAtech

The original link was not a news source. It was a right-wing site whose purpose is to attack anything 'liberal' and since there really isn't anything wrong with restoring art, they had to reform the conversation about Che and Castro, who are nothing but a footnote in big picture (pun intended) of this story.

not only liberal but anything of of color obviously shouldn't get funded. kinda scary now that the dark skinned people are in high places. the sky IS falling

[wildflower82]

Originally Posted by hothulamaui

there are what 67 murals? with probably more then 1,000 images total. there are maybe 5 total pics of che and castro. it is hardly the main theme of ANY of the murals. not all art is flowers and bunnies. why so focused on 1/16th of the murals totals then the entirety?

Those men shouldn't get any credit in the U.S.A.

Irish murals, sure if they were public I wouldn't have a problem at all. not sure what you asked me about them but I would have no objection if the artist wanted to put in ugly pictures of the potato famine, or shocking pics of children starving or someone painted bloody sunday.

I see you don't know much about the fighting Irish, and their contrbution to America.
A mural could include men who fought for America, 8,000 Irish lost their lives in the Gettysburg War, the Irish were involved in every war involving America. Many commanders on both sides of the Civil War readily granted that the side that lost a particular battle was the side that ran out of Irish soldiers first.
The Irish died in greater numbers than any other group to end slavery in America. Irish actually believed in important things like the Bill of Rights, One Man-One Vote, By And For The People, Rule Of law.

In addition to fighting, the Irish also did a fair amount of building, including the Erie Canal, ask most people if they know who built the American transcontinental railroad, considered one of the greatest American technological feats of the 19th century, and almost all of them will say the Chinese did. And that is true. But it’s only half true. Most of the construction engineers and supervisors were Army veterans who had learned their trade keeping the trains running during the American Civil War.

Irish in America developed a reputation as fighters, that the first three world boxing champions were all Irish, including John L. Sullivan, who won over 450 fights in his career. They also had John F. Kennedy. There's plenty of good men and stuff that would cover the Irish, then what you descibed. Notice Kennedy, is no where near the likes of Che and Castro.

everyone will agree hitler was the worst. if someone were painting history of the war, the story really couldn't be told without hitler, doesn't mean they are glorifying him.

So what has Castro or Che contributed to Southern California???

you would rather have your are censored?

At the cost of 1.6 millon it's has nothing to do with censoring, has everything to do with taxpayer's money. Money going to a park that has been labeled as gang property and an unsafe park. Like I said, stop the earmarks and raise their own money.