Something I'd share from school today

Today all 3,000 students at Walter L. Sickles High School in Tampa, FL (my school) saw this mural on the wall, that appeared overnight:



You can't tell in the picture but on the American flag, it's not stars, it's swastikas.

I think it is supposed to be based off of Pink Floyd the wall, only instead of using the made up symbol with the hammer or whatever they use in the movie, they used swastikas. I'm sure it's anti-facist.

Yet, the school including the majority of the students failed to see it as an ANTI-NAZI, ANTi-facism mural and not a pro/neo nazi mural.

Discuss.

 

BTW, that's a pressure washer they were using to spray it down...this is the only picture anyone I knew had.

If you have any questions on what objects in it are, I remember what it looked like, so just ask.

 

destruction of private property is a felony.

 

I didn't do it

I'm saying it was at my school.

 

are you sure they removed it because of it's content? don't you think it was because murals are colourful and cool and thus breaking up the gray and boring harmony of the wall?

 

I wish things like this happened at my school. the most rebellious thing that happens here is the use of low fat mayo in the tuna sandwiches probably!

 

LOL


The only thing I have seen in schools are derogatory graffiti, and words in the bathrooms.

 

Well, they removed it for both reasons (it being on the wall and that not being allowed and it being "anti semetic")

So now there's like a war at my school haha...half of the students understood the true meaning of the mural, anti-facism...so now shirts are being made and people are wearing them with the mural and such and the other kids are all like, "NAZIS!" to everyone despite them technically being on the same side (as far as anti-nazism goes...)

It's one big silly mess haha

 

i just don't know what to say....

 

Very interesting...
I'm not sure I know what to say either.

 

they put a bra on the head of the statue of st francis at my school

 

the pink floyd song is about an elevator

 

I'm sure it was about the school.

Welcome to the Machine may be about an elevator, whatever, this that, but it still goes along with the picture to be a metaphor (I think a metaphor, may be another literary term, but I'm tired right now) for facism.

At least, that's the way I, and many others feel. Every Pink Floyd song/album has so many meanings to me.

 

What happened to the guy/hirl who painted it? I see that they signed their work (probably not the best thing to do when you deface a government funded place...)

I got the symbolism. I don't go to school anyway but it would be pretty to if I did and saw somethign like that. I can't beleive people actually thought it was anti-semitic! Although all those people are probably the right-wingers who any other time say that any form of political correctness is evil and wrong... I don't know for sure, but that is my assumption. Of course, you would know better than I. I actually whote a thesis on the machine, and the "man". I wrote it a while back. I actually handed out a few copies of it and one of my friends jokeingly refered to it as my "manifesto".

 

haha cool

Well, I don't know what those initials or whatever say...no one does. They haven't caught the person yet, which is cool. And I haven't even heard any "rumors" and "gossip" and shit of who it is...I think it was 1 or 2 people that just did it without telling anyone else. Very cool.

 

I think it's a pretty interesting and intelligent way to start a debate on. I wish things like this happened in this country.

 

I want to paint a giant egg on my school and under say : who would have thought it would come to this. It means nothing but it would get people thinking about and I find that funny.

 

haha that'd be awesome... a random painting that APPEARS to have a deeper meaning...but doesn't haha