If It Can Happen in San Francisco, It Can Happen Anywhere
The deep-blue city seems to have grown weary of the more radical elements of the new racial-justice movement.
by Gary Kamiya
Jul 03, 2022
4 minutes
The San Francisco School Board recently returned the admissions policy at Lowell, the city’s most prestigious public high school, to the merit-based system that it had used for more than a century. Thus ended a short-lived lottery introduced in the name of racial equity. The board also abandoned a campaign to erase “The Life of Washington,” a WPA-era mural at George Washington High School by the artist Victor Arnautoff. Arnautoff was a Communist, and his mural, which depicts slaves picking cotton at Mount Vernon, was intentionally subversive. But an earlier incarnation of the board had voted first to destroy
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