The University of Rhode Island announced that they will be removing two 70-year-old World War II murals due to a "lack of diversity." This came after student complaints of the mural not being compatible with the university's values of inclusivity.
The school’s Vice President of Student Affairs said, “Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”
Breitbart reports:
The murals were painted to pay respect to the memories of those that lost their lives in World War II. The murals feature various scenes including veterans returning to the United States and a University of Rhode Island class reunion.
Kathy Collins, the University of Rhode Island’s Vice President of Student Affairs, said that she has received numerous complaints from students about the murals’ lack of diversity.
“I have received complaints about the murals that portray a very homogeneous population predominately the persons painted and depicted on the wall are predominantly white and that does not represent who our institution is today,” Collins stated. “Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”
The murals were painted by Art Sherman, who is now a 95-year-old veteran and a member of the University of Rhode Island’s class of 1950. “Oh, I loved painting that, yeah,” Sherman told a reporter this week. “I never had any formal education in painting by the way I just used to cartoon.”
“Well, it depicted that era,” Sherman continued. “A lot of students, friends of mine, would come by and say why don’t you do this, why don’t you do that so that’s what I did so everybody chipped in.”
George Washington High School in San Francisco pulled a similar stunt in 2019, when they erased a "offensive" mural of George Washington.
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