Everything Now Gets Put Through The "Diversity" Grinder -- To The Point Of Parody
The latest is a mural at the University of Rhode Island, painted nearly 70 years ago, that is set to be taken down after staff said students complained about a lack of diversity in the picture.

Sam Read writes at WJAR:

1954 was the dedication of "The Memorial Union" at the University of Rhode Island.

When veterans returned from World War II and enrolled at URI, they and other community members raised money in memory of those who lost their lives in the war.

Money raised was for a modern student union, which gave it the name, "Memorial Union."

Arthur "Art" Sherman was a decorated returning veteran and member of the class of 1950, a predominately all-white class.

Less than 2,000 students overall attended the university overall.

Originally, he was asked to draw cartoon-like murals in a Quonset Hut that served as an earlier site for the student union but in 1953, as the current Memorial Union was being completed, the building's manager asked him to paint more murals in the new building's ground.

"Oh, I loved painting that, yeah," said Sherman, who's now 95 years old. "I never had any formal education in painting by the way I just used to cartoon."

The murals depict servicemen returning to Kingston, a class reunion, URI commencement, a South County beach scene, and students piled into a jalopy wearing letter sweaters.

"Well, it depicted that era," said Sherman. "A lot of students, friends of mine, would come by and say why don't you do this, why don't you do that so that's what I did so everybody chipped in."

This represented the people there at the time and the artist's view.

"It really depicts a snapshot in time of the university's history, important history, showing a person returning back to campus from World War II and other historical moments," said Vice President of Student Affairs, Kathy Collins. "We've made a really difficult decision as we aim for the university's future and we think about who are our students today, and who are our students going to be tomorrow."

Collins said she's been working for URI for the last four years and has received complaints from students.

"I have received complaints about the murals that portray a very homogeneous population predominately the persons painted and depicted on the wall are predominantly white and that does not represent who our institution is today," said Collins. "Some of our students have even shared with us they didn't feel comfortable sitting in that space."

Well, if you can't be around white people without feeling uncomfortable, you are -- same as people who'd feel that way about people of any other color -- sick and racist and perhaps in need of a good bit of therapy so you can participate in society with people of all cultures and colors.