SF Performing an Audit of City’s 98 Statues to Determine If Any Should Be Removed for Being Racist or Sexist
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An outside firm has been hired to perform an audit of the 98 statues and monuments in SF, and recommend which ones should be removed or altered if they "no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for.”
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And now the Chronicle reports that the City of San Francisco has commissioned an audit to determine whether any SF statues should be removed, or maybe just given disclaimers or content warnings.
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“These monuments no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for,” SF Arts Commission senior project manager Angela Carrier said at a meeting last week, per the Chronicle, saying that SF's overall collection of 98 statues and monuments shows “a concentration that talks about power, privilege, white supremacy, patriarchy, and colonialism.”
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But it is well-known that SF has very few statues of women. We did recently add that statue of a woman in jogging gear at the Embarcadero, and there is a giant Burning Man statue of a nude woman likely coming to Union Square in June. But those are both temporary installations, and will not be considered in this audit.'
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