Arizona school to "whiten" mural image

The story has a link showing the child in question, but I cannot find a photo showing how this child fits into the rest of the mural. Does anyone have a good link showing this part of the mural?
 
Sure it's a yahoo blog, but nearly 600 comments in 6 hours? Definitely a heated issue.
 
Idiots. Don't they realize he's they guy they brought along to clean the bikes?
 
bigred said:
http://dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=99&SubSectionID=1212

You can toggle through various pics and one or two show it from a more wide angle view.
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Yes, I saw that but I was looking for a photo that included "the faces of four actual students at the school and is intended to promote biking and other environmentally sustainable modes of transportation." I see one of the other students in photo two, but I wanted to see the relative size of the other students.

Also, I read the quote from the bigot several times and still can't parse it into a coherent sentence. Can someone tell me why he brings up the president?
 
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Ladewig said:
Yes, I saw that but I was looking for a photo that included "the faces of four actual students at the school and is intended to promote biking and other environmentally sustainable modes of transportation." I see one of the other students in photo two, but I wanted to see the realtive size of the other students.

Also, I read the quote from the bigot several times and still can't parse it into a coherent sentence. Can someone tell me why he brings up the president?
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Well, no, how could we? But if I had to guess, I'd say it's because he's a bigot.
 
The artists website is http://www.prescottmurals.com
unfortunately is exceeding bandwidth right now due to the high interest.

Would definitely be good to see the whole mural, and also a before and after shot if they end up changing it. Some of the complaints were about 'lightening' the faces, in the sense of making them happier looking, so I think seeing the actual work would be useful.

I'd say that from the article - the mural is in the perfect place and they need a little more controversy if none really exists there.
...Faces in the mural were drawn from photographs of children enrolled at Miller Valley, a K-5 school with 380 students and the highest ethnic mix of any school in Prescott. Wall said thousands of town residents volunteered or donated to the project, the fourth in a series of community murals painted by a group of artists known as the "Mural Mice."

The public art, funded by a $5,000 state grant through the Prescott Alternative Transportation Center, was selected by school students and faculty.

"The parents and children love it," Lane said.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/artic...mural-sparks-racial-debate.html#ixzz0pzNTw2lR
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With thousands of volunteers working and donating to the mural project, it is hard to characterize the entire town as racist, much less all Arizona.
Blair could not be reached for comment Thursday. In audio archives of his radio show, Blair discusses the mural. He insists the controversy isn't about racism but says the mural is intended to create racial controversy where none existed before.

"Personally, I think it's pathetic," he says. "You have changed the ambience of that building to excite some kind of diversity power struggle that doesn't exist in Prescott, Arizona. And I'm ashamed of that."

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/artic...mural-sparks-racial-debate.html#ixzz0pzOHYImL
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Ambience. Ok yeah. I'm looking forward to the battle between a powerful racist politician and a diminutive liberal mural artist named Maggie.

Arizona has racists and also some jerk politicians. Sometimes they occur together.
See how easy it is to admit our flaws?
 
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With thousands of volunteers working and donating to the mural project, it is hard to characterize the entire town as racist, much less all Arizona.
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I most assuredly do not believe that the entire town is racist. On the other hand it is more than just one (prominent) racist in that town - "R.E. Wall,... told the Republic that local residents driving by the mural as [the artists] were painting it — sometimes with children helping — shouted ethnic slurs."
 
Wow. This is so depressing. They're actually trying to make the artist justify why the most prominent person on the mural is not white? Uh...why the heck not? Why would someone ever need to justify that?

Gotta love that the guy throws in the "hey, just because even seeing a non white person depicted offends me doesn't make me racist, I have black friends!"
 
This quote reveals a lot:
Steve Blair didn't like that. Blair, local city councilman and talk-radio host, inveighed against the mural on his show last month, according to the New York Daily News:
"I am not a racist individual," Blair said on a radio show last month, "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?' "
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Any picture now of a black child on a mural is there because of Obama? :rolleyes:
 
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Personally, I love how the guy's complaint is about a black child, when the child is pretty obviously not.

I'm certainly a fan for asking "Why?" in most cases, not so much as to explain why paint people of a certain colour.

It's also interesting to realise that I've never seen a successful argument that started with "I'm not racist, but..."
 
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I most assuredly do not believe that the entire town is racist. On the other hand it is more than just one (prominent) racist in that town - "R.E. Wall,... told the Republic that local residents driving by the mural as [the artists] were painting it — sometimes with children helping — shouted ethnic slurs."
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Yeah, I think this may actually be the most troubling part of this story.
 
Ladewig said:
Yes, I saw that but I was looking for a photo that included "the faces of four actual students at the school and is intended to promote biking and other environmentally sustainable modes of transportation." I see one of the other students in photo two, but I wanted to see the relative size of the other students.

Also, I read the quote from the bigot several times and still can't parse it into a coherent sentence. Can someone tell me why he brings up the president?
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Because, like the dark-skinned child, the president is not a natural born US Citizen. You have not been keeping up!! Get with the pogrom!! oops, :eek:program!!!
 
I live in Phoenix, and, yes, Arizona is a bit backwards in some areas. What you're all missing, though, is that this is Ari-Freaking-Zona. By the end of the summer the sun is going to bleach the mural white anyway.
 
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