Did the Boone County Commission make the right decision about the courthouse murals?

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509 Votes

Did the Boone County Commission make the right decision about the courthouse murals?

27%

Yes Yes

73%

No No

27%

Yes

The commission voted Thursday to remove the murals from the courthouse after complaints that the scenes depicted included violence and slavery.

The commission voted Thursday to remove the murals from the courthouse after complaints that the scenes depicted included violence and slavery. Show Less

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73%

No

Some defended the murals, saying their intent wasn't racist or intimidating but to depict local history, even if it is ugly.

Some defended the murals, saying their intent wasn't racist or intimidating but to depict local history, even if it is ugly. Show Less

11 Comments

Pamela Stephens

The murals are a part of history! If we keep taking down/and or removing statue's and Murals why teach history in schools!!! This is getting totally out of hand!!

Tim Montee

why take them down, it is history that needs to be seen and remembered the way it was and not the way they want you to see it, or not see it...

Border Ruffian

If the paintings are offensive, then you'd have to count George Caleb Bingham's famous Order Number 11 painting as offensive too.

Donna S

History is HISTORY!!!

Max

Trying to sweep history under the door is no way to improve our Nation. The Boone County Commission is a failure.

Mike S

Examining our past is SUPPOSED to feel uncomfortable. This is where the urge to grow and change comes from. It's the same sort of whitewashing of the past as the fake issue of Critical Race Theory.

Max

If these paintings were painted today, there would be drive by shootings, tent cities on the sidewalks, and needles and human waste everywhere. We don't want the truth to be exposed. It might hurt someone's feelings.

Harry D

Woke fools listening to bigger woke fools all trying to out virtue signal each other. Our entire country is screwed. The silent majority of hard working conservatives can be silent no longer we must politically organize and fight back. "Let's go Brandon!"

Max

In regard to the liberal thought process I can only say; Let's Go Brandon!!!!!!

Laura Davidson

What does it matter? They will do what they want regardless.

Melanie Dix

Because the people in the painting are white not black.

Has your yard gotten enough rain this spring?

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10 Votes

Has your yard gotten enough rain this spring?

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Yes Yes

60%

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40%

Yes

1 Comment

Zaos Gonzolez

Hrm, yes you see. My poor neighbors pay for my yards to be watered through their taxes. It's a great deal. We need more poor people in Columbia.

60%

No

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Should police be called in to break up college campus protests?

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251 Votes

Should police be called in to break up college campus protests?

68%

Yes Yes

32%

No No

68%

Yes

4 Comments

Harry D

As Mizzou learned the hard way, campus protests can be very bad for the institution of higher learning. Police and even the National Guard should be used to restore order and make it safe for minorities (e.g., Jewish students) to attend class. The left has taken over higher ed, you see results. FJB

Max DeYoung

Harry, your reply to me is true, and accurate, but a peaceful protest is legal.

Bill Douglas

Start holding the alumni accountable who use the state taxpayer dollars in the form of their state government salaries to donate and buy tickets to athletic programs of these universities. Revoke their degrees, and find someway of filing criminal charges against them even if you have to make it up.

Bill Douglas

They need to revoke the degrees of each and every UM Columbia grad who has an engineering degree starting with the walking dictionary we have in my hometown who times stoplights. That computer geek can do nothing but quote a bunch of state regulations and policy that nobody understands.

32%

No

2 Comments

Max DeYoung

No, not if they are peaceful, otherwise the answer is yes.

Harry D

When was the last time you saw a peaceful leftist protest? "We need some muscle over here" ring any bells?

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Did the Boone County Commission make the right decision about the courthouse murals?

27% Yes Yes

73% No No

27% Yes

73% No

Has your yard gotten enough rain this spring?

40% Yes Yes

60% No No

40% Yes

60% No

Should police be called in to break up college campus protests?

68% Yes Yes

32% No No

68% Yes

32% No

27%

Yes Yes

73%

No No

27%

Yes

73%

No

40%

Yes Yes

60%

No No

40%

Yes

60%

No

68%

Yes Yes

32%

No No

68%

Yes

32%

No