Arizona elementary school whitening faces on a mural of children who attend

Canada
June 4, 2010 8:16pm CST
Anyone else seen this yet? Because of pathetic, disgusting adults driving by the school and screaming racist remarks during the day, and a radio talk-show campaign by CITY COUNCILMAN Steve Blair, an elementary school principal has ordered the black and Latino faces on the mural to be whitened to look Caucasian. I don't understand how any adult can see themselves as justified when terrorizing an elementary school. Does anyone from Arizona have thoughts on this? Here's a link for more information: http://www.wonkette.com/415809/arizona-school-demands-black-latino-students-faces-on-mural-be-changed-to-white
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
5 Jun 10
wow what a can of worms. It appears that the principal was acting on the three complaints lodged but there was insinuation that they group doing the mural were specifically trying to create a storm. I did a little looking around, like X I didnt really like the way this was written, it is meant as a gossip blog. There was a little more to the story, I will add it here [i] the school's principal says the request was only to fix shading and had nothing to do with political pressure.[/i] Wall said school Principal Jeff Lane pressed him to make the children's faces appear happier and brighter Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2010/06/04/20100604arizona-mural-sparks-racial-debate.html#ixzz0pysNwFud at any rate, poor taste to say the least but it seems that they wanted the shading fixed, not necessarily changing the kids to white.
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
5 Jun 10
thanks for saving me the digging around, I knew there had to be more to the story. Just the introductory line alone was enough to tell me this was a hit piece.
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@Rtlsnk316 (1197)
• Mexico
8 Jun 10
Regardless, doing that specific job, whatever it was on the mural is clearly a reason to continue questioning the essence of what's going on right now in that state.
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
8 Jun 10
That holds true for the whole country.
• United States
9 Jun 10
AZ has their hands full with so many people around the world mad about many issues like SB1070, teachers with accent being fired and so on. People against these laws are mad and people in favor are also mad! In my opinion we should all calm down and think rationally!
@andy77e (5156)
• United States
6 Jun 10
There's a lot of anger growing in the white community. People are tired of being accused of being racist, so they are becoming racist. People are tired of being turned down jobs, while non-whites are getting those jobs, even if they are less qualified. The anti-white reverse racism, is starting to boil over in the white communities in the US. It's really sad, but the natural result of affirmative action.
@thekelz (277)
• United Kingdom
5 Jun 10
Oh dear, This is shocking, words fail me, what is going on, how can people be so disgusting, The children are our future and yet people are trying to segregate them from an early age. Kids don't care about skin colour but if an adult poisions a young mind then the racism continues for another generation. that is not good.