"'The parallels are very obvious to us,' says Santa Monica activist Oscar de la Torre, a school board member, founder of the Pico Youth & Family Center and a prominent leader of the campaign to remove the mural. 'The European conquistadors, they practiced slavery. There was rape. There was murder. There was genocide.'"
Jason McGahan in the LA Weekly discusses the debate over the 1941 mural, History of Santa Monica and the Bay District, at Santa Monica City Hall.
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