Seriously, this is not good press Arizona:
A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school.
The project’s leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children’s ethnicity. But the school’s principal says the request was only to fix shading and had nothing to do with political pressure.
The “Go on Green” mural, which covers two walls outside Miller Valley Elementary School, was designed to advertise a campaign for environmentally friendly transportation. It features portraits of four children, with a Hispanic boy as the dominant figure.
R.E. Wall, director of Prescott’s Downtown Mural Project, said he and other artists were subjected to slurs from motorists as they worked on the painting at one of the town’s most prominent intersections.
“We consistently, for two months, had people shouting racial slander from their cars,” Wall said. “We had children painting with us, and here come these yells of (epithet for Blacks) and (epithet for Hispanics).”
Wall said school Principal Jeff Lane pressed him to make the children’s faces appear happier and brighter.
“It is being lightened because of the controversy,” Wall said, adding that “they want it to look like the children are coming into light.”
Lane said that he received only three complaints about the mural and that his request for a touch-up had nothing to do with political pressure. “We asked them to fix the shading on the children’s faces,” he said. “We were looking at it from an artistic view. Nothing at all to do with race.”
City Councilman Steve Blair spearheaded a public campaign on his talk show at Prescott radio station KYCA-AM (1490) to remove the mural.In a broadcast last month, according to the Daily Courier in Prescott, Blair mistakenly complained that the most prominent child in the painting is African-American, saying: “To depict the biggest picture on the building as a Black person, I would have to ask the question: Why?”
Wait a second, Arizona has $5,000 in a grant to pay for public “art” but they say that illegals are bankrupting their state?
Well… seriously… the guys does have a point
Prescott has like 4 black people who aren’t in one of the colleges.
I know I used to live there. It’s whiter than frikken Norway in February.
USA was great when it was +90% white.
Now it’s rapidly becoming third world as whites will soon be a minority.
Every other race advocates for their own interests, except whites.
Why is this?
Why are whites always neutered or shamed for being white?
Enough!
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Artists Asked to Lighten Faces of Latino, Black Kids on Arizona School Mural…
A new story has broken about Arizona that sounds like it just cant’ be real. It MUST be a Saturday Live Sketch, or a politically-anchored fictional line on an MSNBC show. But it isn’t: it’s yet another example of how passions — …
It’s seems America has having a hard time adjusting to the reality that there are other colored people who live here besides white.
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2010/06/arizona-school-decides-to-lighten-the-color-of-depicted-latinos/
Who is surprised by this, honestly?
AMERICUH WAS GREAT WHEN WE WERE NOTHING BUT WHITE FOLKS (WITH BLACKS TO DO ALL THE FREE LABOR) AND NOW THE BLACKS ARE HERE RUINING OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!!! DER DER DER!!!
- A summation of 1/3rd of the comments so far.
arizona should do what spain does to the basque people. give the la raza sort their own piece of land in arizona if they’re so adamant about having it back. it’s more complicated than murals. i find that when you live in a “sanctuary city” it brings out the fascist in you. it’s really hard to fight the feeling. i guess i wasn’t too stoked when an illegal immigrant was butthoused on the 4th of july last year and ran over my buddy. my friend died and the guy took off back to mexico. i guess i was also a little upset when a couple of illegals tried to sexually assault my girlfriend outside of a dive bar. mexico is definitely another culture. some hispanics won’t even give you an inch while you wait in line at the grocery store. they got to be up in your shit like it’s a village. they cat call like spaniards and italians. i have to admit i love being 6′5 and being around them. they’re some tiny people and it makes me feel like godzilla.
When was America 90% white! WTF. After the natives (Indians) were wiped out through force! When the Mexicans were kicked out? One day it ain’t gonna be that way anymore whether ya like it or not. What that day is already here! You suckers. Tough better face the reality and you old rednecks are almost finished!
Time marches on. HAHAHHAH!
[...] Doug Mataconis: You know, Arizona stuff like this isn’t going to help convince people that there isn’t some weird racial thing going on in your state. [...]
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