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).”
ASUG8 wrote:I love how everybody thinks the South is full of card carrying racists when it's pretty prevalent all over the country.
I love how everyone assumes Arizona is full of card carrying racists when a dozen people in a town of 35,000 shouted racial slurs.
Arizona is the new Mississippi.
"Sarah Palin absolutely blew AWAY the audience tonight. If there was any doubt as to whether she was savvy enough, tough enough or smart enough to carry the mantle of Vice President, she put those fears to rest tonight. She took on Barack Obama DIRECTLY on every issue and exposed... She did it with warmth and humor, and came across as the every-person....it's becoming mroe and more clear that she was a genius pick for McCain."
Agree, but you're becoming an equally racist state. They hate blacks and you hate latinos.
"Sarah Palin absolutely blew AWAY the audience tonight. If there was any doubt as to whether she was savvy enough, tough enough or smart enough to carry the mantle of Vice President, she put those fears to rest tonight. She took on Barack Obama DIRECTLY on every issue and exposed... She did it with warmth and humor, and came across as the every-person....it's becoming mroe and more clear that she was a genius pick for McCain."
AZGrizFan wrote:
I love how everyone assumes Arizona is full of card carrying racists when a dozen people in a town of 35,000 shouted racial slurs.
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'.
"Ah fuck. You are right." KYJelly, 11/6/12
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam." Barack Obama, 9/25/12
