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Is the artist black or white? is the Cop Dad black or white? Should it matter? maybe?
The article doesn't say the age of the kids involved.
If we are talking middle school then I say it is sad that this is the state of America and those young minds are impressionable. We can blame the media for exploding incidents of race (but only when it is white on black that is)...
If the art was done and displayed in a high school then the art could serve as a starting point for a deeper conversation about race in America through the ages.
Either way the police should not be aligned with the KKK. The Police are not the enemy and that needs to be reinforced to the kids as well as the common sense that if you do not break the law then you will not have a run in with the police.
I do agree with the cop/dad but in the end the picture has provoked a conversation, a feeling and that is what art is supposed to do. I just hope Obama doesn't see this because he will probably want to hang it in the white house.
I don't see anything about Barack Obama in this news story.
That painting has been up 3 years. The actual 'controversy' locally is not because the cop said something, it's because of the zero tolerance policy of any depiction of firearms in the school district: old ham, Jefferson, bullit, spencer counties.
It's not about artistic expression that is causing the outrage. It's for other students who are suspended and sent home for the same act.
Well, if this were in Chiraq (Chicago) and the shooter was black, it could be apropos, however, if it were a white cop pointing the gun then that would be racist...the real issue is, they allow this in a school financed by the tax payers would/should be illegal.
Unless of course, the school board allows racism in all it's forms which as we all know, would be accepted and endorsed by the media, the white house, AG, and others in power.....
Just imagine a painting of two white folks or a decorated war veteran with 4 blacks pointing guns at them? You suppose that would be allowed?
Didn't think so....you know, if BLM wants a war I wish they would just start one and quit being such wussies about it. I think we could settle this relatively quickly and move on.
Your statement about the kkk and the south... Just pointing out obvious issues with it. Just say kkk...often the more one qualifies, the more it may invalidate their point.
Well, if this were in Chiraq (Chicago) and the shooter was black, it could be apropos, however, if it were a white cop pointing the gun then that would be racist...the real issue is, they allow this in a school financed by the tax payers would/should be illegal.
Unless of course, the school board allows racism in all it's forms which as we all know, would be accepted and endorsed by the media, the white house, AG, and others in power.....
Just imagine a painting of two white folks or a decorated war veteran with 4 blacks pointing guns at them? You suppose that would be allowed?
Didn't think so....you know, if BLM wants a war I wish they would just start one and quit being such wussies about it. I think we could settle this relatively quickly and move on.
I don't see a single reference to BLM in this news story. And as I now understand it, the painting was made 3 years ago before BLM existed.
Your statement about the kkk and the south... Just pointing out obvious issues with it. Just say kkk...often the more one qualifies, the more it may invalidate their point.
There have been several iterations of the KKK, the first occurring in the 1860s during Reconstruction.
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