[applause] >> and carol denny, it is no compromise and for this to refrain from destroying a pricelesseal work of art. but continued to promote obscuring it from the students are public at large. the school board is entitled to claim to its deliberate misinterpretation of the work, but a wiser national public knows how brave it is, even today, to acknowledge the exploitation upon which our nation was, and is based. the school board and its supporters are entitled to claim, to have a traumatic reaction to the side of anything they please, including the american flag. but constantly describing our high school students, as incapable of distinguishing between exploitation, and the critical observation out -- about exploitation as represented by the artwork, or unable to manage critical thought, or or forever forever in need of protection from provocative ideas is more seemed to me than anything you can put up on the wall. please, people here tonight who can run for a seat on the school board, please consider doing so because the school board has made san francisco an international laughing