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Controversial mural

Tuesday, May 29 at 11:46 AM

Nick A. Adlon of Sheridan writes:

Headed West is being forced by Englewood to remove a mural, a mural that is much better than graffiti and the damage left by taggers. Complaints say it is advocating drug use but I disagree. If Englewood and the people making the complaint truly feel that then perhaps Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland”
will never be seen in Englewood again for the caterpillar there also smoked a hookah. The movie, as well as the mural was based on a book written by Lewis Carroll that described the very scene. Now what the complaints and Englewood is basically suggesting is, in a way, catamount to the Nazis burning of books they disagreed with or felt “Advocated Bad Morals". The removal of a mural, described in one of the greatest children’s books ever and also shown in a Disney movie is very much a different example of book burning. You shall not have Mark Twains books for it is insensitive to people and racist, ignoring the plain FACT that life was that way when it was written. Also with J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series for they advocate “witch craft” yet al I have seen is they advocate reading. So Englewood, best beware, it’s a slippery slope you face. It indeed maybe a mural, but Hitler was only a corporal.

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