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

Asked by ABC 17 News

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

9 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.

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.

Should murals be removed from the Boone County Courthouse?

Asked by ABC 17 News

488 Votes

Should murals be removed from the Boone County Courthouse?

26%

Yes Yes

74%

No No

26%

Yes

A group of lawyers is asking the Boone County Commission to remove some murals depicting scenes in county history from the

A group of lawyers is asking the Boone County Commission to remove some murals depicting scenes in county history from the Show Less

2 Comments

micah schafer

I find the painting of famous Native American hunter pointing a rifle at a man preticuly racist.

Rachel Brekhus

Civic art need not be eternal, especially if it is meant to tell a story, as this art is. Time to support new artists and reconsider the impact of the visuals we choose for our public spaces.

74%

No

One lawyer told ABC 17 News that while the murals can be offensive, that's the point and they should stay.

One lawyer told ABC 17 News that while the murals can be offensive, that's the point and they should stay. Show Less

6 Comments

Vernon Taylor

We need to be reminded of the past and the progress made from those events. Proposals of this ilk simply appease those with personal agendas who feel they are more important than history itself. They feel they are more important than than the rest of us when in reality we are aware they are not.

Matt Goodsell

History can be ugly, but removing the reality of it would be much worse! Denying history would translate to a repeat of it.

Mary Perrey

We should not be destroying history. It is important to see just how far we have come in so many ways. Those murals help demonstrate that.

Becky

You cannot erase history....those that do are doomed to repeat it.

Amanda McCutcheon

Its simple ITS HISTORY

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No way No way

29%

I'd put some money down I'd put some money down

71%

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Art SquareOffs

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

27% Yes Yes

73% No No

27% Yes

73% No

Should murals be removed from the Boone County Courthouse?

26% Yes Yes

74% No No

26% Yes

74% No

Will you invest in NFTs?

71% No way No way

29% I'd put some money down I'd put some money down

71% No way

29% I'd put some money down

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