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A Queens high school principal sparked outrage and controversy last week with a bizarre painting at the school that shows her as a Hindu goddess.
In the hanging artwork above the rear exercise lot of the school, Principal Rushell White was shown as a six-armed Hindu deity with five school administrators on a stage.
The New York Daily News, which reported the incident June 29, said quoting unnamed critics that it was totally inappropriate for White, who is Christian, to portray herself as a Hindu religious figure on school grounds.
“It’s disrespectful to another person’s religion,” the report quoted one parent as saying. She declined to identify herself, according to the paper, for fears of retribution from White.
White, 40, declined comment outside the Junior High School 226 in South Ozone Park. The report said one third of the students at the school are Hindu, and many of them were upset by the artwork.
The large canvas mural was installed June 23 and was removed Jun 27 after staffers complained and officials from the education department came to investigate. It was not clear from the report as to why a principal would like to portray herself as a Hindu goddess within the school premises. The report said White has been accused in the past of making an anti-Semitic remark to assistant principal David Possner who is a Jew. Possner also is depicted in the mural as a shrunken little man skulking in a corner of the artwork, the report said.
“The mural is basically mocking the Hindu community,” Possner, a 19-year city educator was quoted by the paper as saying. In a lawsuit he claimed that White called him a “bad Jew” for using his phone on Yom Kippur in 2014.
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