Yesterday:
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.
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.
Yesterday's diary
Today the administrators grew a spine and America is safe for one more day.
This rant from a wingnut and Prescott City Council member caused the problem. Then wingnut listeners started honking and shouting at the people working on the mural. Then the administrators caved.
I am not a racist individual, but I will tell you depicting a black guy in the middle of that mural, based upon who's President of the United States today and based upon the history of this community, when I grew up we had four black families - who I have been very good friends with for years - to depict the biggest picture on that building as a black person, I would have to ask the question, 'Why?'
The mural is going back to its original intent. The racists and bigots lost this one.
All is not lost, there is hope even in Prescott AZ. Maybe this will impact the next election there, we'll see.
Huffington Post
Thanks to bloggers like us the whole world knew and maybe we changed things.
Oh yeah there's more. The wingnut, Steve Blair got canned from his Radio Show. Wonkette
Now maybe America will ask itself, "Isn't it about time we stood up to talk radio?"
I just found this video:
Rec List! Thank you Prescott! Thank you Daily Kos!
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