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More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 8:08 am
by Skjellyfetti
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 ….
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).”
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Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:00 pm
by dbackjon
I knew what this thread was going to be about before I even opened it...
Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:06 pm
by ASUG8
I love how everybody thinks the South is full of card carrying racists when it's pretty prevalent all over the country.
Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:34 pm
by AZGrizFan
Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:49 pm
by D1B
Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:50 pm
by AZGrizFan
Mississippi couldn't hold Arizona's jock.
Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:52 pm
by D1B
AZGrizFan wrote:
Mississippi couldn't hold Arizona's jock.
Agree, but you're becoming an equally racist state. They hate blacks and you hate latinos.
Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:54 pm
by AZGrizFan
Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:56 pm
by dbackjon
I never ask for their papers
Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:59 pm
by AZGrizFan
Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:59 pm
by Ursus A. Horribilis
dbackjon wrote:
I never ask for their papers
Nobody does until the next morning when you need to get rid of them.
Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:59 pm
by Skjellyfetti
And ask to change the mural at a school so there'd be less brown people.
Re: More blatant racism from Arizona:
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:03 pm
by AZGrizFan
Skjellyfetti wrote:
And ask to change the mural at a school so there'd be less brown people.
Doesn't change the fact that this is Exhibit A for anectodal evidence. Doesn't mean a thing, but those who would paint with a broad brush can't WAIT to paint the entire state as 'racist'.
