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It starts with immigrants...next it will be the poor...then everyone else....
just watch...
Paranoia will destroy ya...
An Arizona elementary school mural featuring the faces of kids who attend the school has been the subject of constant daytime drive-by racist screaming, from adults, as well as a radio talk-show campaign (by an actual city councilman, who has an AM talk-radio show) to remove the black student's face, and now the school principal has ordered the faces of the Latino and Black students to be changed to Caucasian skin.-wonkette.com
http://wonkette.com/415809/arizona-s...anged-to-white
It starts with immigrants...next it will be the poor...then everyone else....
just watch...
Paranoia will destroy ya...
If true, that's a ed up story.
Right-wingers, Repugs, conservatives, tea baggers, gun-nuts aren't racist. Everybody's welcome in their Big Tent. We're All Americans Now.
No...those people in Arizona aren't racists!!!
Bud Selig needs to pull the 2011 ASG from AZ, and if he doesn't, MLB needs to be boycotted itself.
What I noticed was missing was how many faces were on the mural, and if there were any white faces or not.
Is it possible that a few racists comments are being repeated, but the key complaint is possibly lack of diversity? Are there any white kids depicted in the mural?
OK, I found that four students are painted, none are white.
I'll bet the crux of the situation is that there are no whites represented.
The reason lunatic adults are screaming racial epiphets at a children's mural is because no whites are represented? That makes ZERO sense. I saw the alleged mural and there is at least one, possibly two, white people on it. Why don't you post the one you saw so I can compare?
The school says the skin changes are for artistic purposes
LOL...
I went over several articles. Only three racial epitaphs were mentioned to be spoken. Now Prescott isn't a very large town, only 43,217 buy census estimates for 2009. Still, to have only three biggoted complaints...
Nobody in the school is saying the repainting is because of pressure, but for reasons of accuracy.
I'll bet you check as many articles as I did. I looked at over a dozen.
As for seeing whites? It must have already been repainted.
Maybe wrong artistically?The school says the skin changes are for artistic purposes
Wouldn't it be funny if it was the parents of a white kid painted as Hispanic or black complained? Not saying it happened, but it was one thought that came to mind as a possibility.
WRONG! I only checked 3, which aren't really articles so much as gossipy commentary. But I digress...
http://gawker.com/5555807/arizona-el...n-school-mural
The mural was apparently of "current students" so yea, maybe they made a white kid black or hispanic. Or maybe it's just another example of racist AZ trying to erase all sense of cultural diversity!!!!!!!!
PS: The kid in the mural has an afro, hard to know if the artists got that wrong and it should be a white kid with an afro.
I bet that white skinned blond girl is just an albino black.
It looks like two white people in that sketch. If that's what the mural looks like, what is the problem here?
That's the approved sketch. Not the final product.WRONG! I only checked 3, which aren't really articles so much as gossipy commentary. But I digress...
http://gawker.com/5555807/arizona-el...n-school-mural
The mural was apparently of "current students" so yea, maybe they made a white kid black or hispanic. Or maybe it's just another example of racist AZ trying to erase all sense of cultural diversity!!!!!!!!
PS: The kid in the mural has an afro, hard to know if the artists got that wrong and it should be a white kid with an afro.
So you have seen the final product? Post a picture of it.
PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!
White kid on the bike.
Wild Cobra is full of .
Whatever.
White kid on the bike.
Wild Cobra is full of .
The sketch has blond hair of two kids. the mural has darker skin, without blond hair. Did the artist change actual students looks, causing the stir maybe? This is suppose to represent actual students, then the artist changes the students. I read an article that said none of the children were white. I could be in error, but I really don't know.
Here is one pic I could find:
The kid with the afro in the concept is now Hispanic rather than African-American. Could the racial slurs be coming from blacks because the final product was changed to Hispanic?
Where's the blond hair on the kid on the bike, and the bike is changed too. The pose of the black/hispanic is changed.
When you change an approved design, maybe it's not the mural that being called racist, but the painter!
I haven't found any quotes of the slurs, have you? The articles make everyone assume the slurs are coming from whites. What if they aren't?
Remember the black tea party guy with the rifle, being called a racist against blacks?
Last edited by Wild Cobra; 06-05-2010 at 02:21 PM.
Does a ghost count as white?
This is a picture of the mural with the "lightening" paint on the offending figure's forehead.
Actually the kid looks more like Mao might have before his hairline receded. That might have been a better avenue of criticism.
The kid on the bike looks like he/she has a fro.
Everyone knows that we can't dare have positive depictions of minorities in suburban areas -- those people are there only because of affirmative action or illegal immigration, after all. And we can't have suburbia becoming uncomfortable with the thought that white affluence will be displaced by governmental beneficence that changes the socioeconomic calculus. Better -- by far -- to have suburbanites faced with faces of people that they're comfortable with and who are their legitimate equals.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz0q0XCmBQX
Head toward the light, Mao-looking, fro-less, apparent Latino child. Head toward the light.
Hmmm. I might be going out on a limb here, but I think the kid on the bike might be wearing a, what is it called, oh yea...A ING BIKE HELMET!!!
I was leaning toward Latino because of the shades but that could sound racist.
I can't see that much. You might be right but it looks like a fro to me. Chump, find a better pic.
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