- I'm a student at George Washington High School and I'm here to stand up against the racist and demeaning life of Washington murals.
It's very hard to walk past these murals depicting the racist stories of America's founding father, even if it is the truth.
Generational trauma follows us.
If our school district seeks out social justice, then we will paint over these murals or cover them.
- It pains me that we would become complicit in a move to do a redaction of history.
History is history, and I hope this board would leave that mural alone.
It tells the whole truth about Mr. Washington being complicit in the slave trade, about what he did to the Native Americans.
- My son always tells me when we go into the school, "Mom, don't tell 'em I'm Native."
And I can't imagine him walking into that school being told, "Meet me at the dead Indian."
It's not right.
Personal testimony.
Right now, I feel so angry.
Again, here we are fighting, fighting, fighting for what's right for the kids.
Paint.
It.
Down.