ClydeR
01-10-2017, 04:28 PM
Picture it.. Season 11, Episode 13 of the Simpsons.. Lisa Simpson's school band competes in a competition with other schools' bands. Lisa's band loses to another school that uses glow sticks. But the rules forbade visual aids! Incensed, Lisa writes a letter to President Clinton, who shares Lisa's outrage at this flagrant violation of the rules. He jumps on Air Force One and flies to Springfield to set things right. That brings us to a similar situation in the year 2017.
WASHINGTON — A painting by a black teenager depicting police brutality is hanging again in the US Capitol after being removed by two separate congressmen, but Republicans are promising to take it down for good.
The painting by black Missouri teenager David Pulphus depicts pigs as police officers as part of a message about police brutality. Several Republicans have deemed the painting offensive and unacceptable.
The painting is a symbolic depiction of the events in Ferguson, Missouri, and inequality in general. It was one of 400 paintings to win a high school art competition and earn a spot in a hallway in the basement of the Capitol. For months it was displayed without controversy.
More... (https://www.buzzfeed.com/paulmcleod/painting-depicting-cops-as-pigs-back-in-capitol-after-congre)
The Congressional Black Caucus has responded that Capitol Hill features several paintings of segregationists and slave owners that black people could find offensive. But Hunter dismissed the notion.
“That’s ridiculous. There’s no comparison between things that were painted 50 years ago or 100 years ago… it’s a false analogy,” he said.
Speaker Paul Ryan told Republicans that party leadership also believes the painting breaches contest rules and they will try to take it down, according to Hunter’s office. But members of the Congressional Black Caucus are promising to fight to keep the painting up.
WASHINGTON — A painting by a black teenager depicting police brutality is hanging again in the US Capitol after being removed by two separate congressmen, but Republicans are promising to take it down for good.
The painting by black Missouri teenager David Pulphus depicts pigs as police officers as part of a message about police brutality. Several Republicans have deemed the painting offensive and unacceptable.
The painting is a symbolic depiction of the events in Ferguson, Missouri, and inequality in general. It was one of 400 paintings to win a high school art competition and earn a spot in a hallway in the basement of the Capitol. For months it was displayed without controversy.
More... (https://www.buzzfeed.com/paulmcleod/painting-depicting-cops-as-pigs-back-in-capitol-after-congre)
The Congressional Black Caucus has responded that Capitol Hill features several paintings of segregationists and slave owners that black people could find offensive. But Hunter dismissed the notion.
“That’s ridiculous. There’s no comparison between things that were painted 50 years ago or 100 years ago… it’s a false analogy,” he said.
Speaker Paul Ryan told Republicans that party leadership also believes the painting breaches contest rules and they will try to take it down, according to Hunter’s office. But members of the Congressional Black Caucus are promising to fight to keep the painting up.