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An update on the Arizona School Mural — Good News

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As reported in the HuffPo:

UPDATE: Good news. The gutless, carbound racists lost, and the mural is being restored to its “original theme.” Jeff Lane, the principal of Miller Valley Elementary School, and Kevin Kapp, the school superintendent, showed up at a protest today to apologize for giving in to whims of mentally deranged adults, spewing racial epithets at a painting:

via Arizona Elementary School Will Whiten The Faces Of Its Own Students On A Mural Because Some Racists Yelled At It [UPDATE].

This makes me feel better that the school didn’t give in to the racists after all, and wiser heads prevailed. No erasure here.

This is just too much…

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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 ….

via Wonkette : Arizona School Demands Black & Latino Students’ Faces On Mural Be Changed To White.

I don’t want to belong to the same country as these racists. This is just beyond the pale. Someone has to call these people out. And a city councilman is behind this as well? What the hell! This is the most outrageous thing I’ve heard of for a long time. That people think this is acceptable or even tolerable is just beyond me.

I rarely get angry, but this just drives me to the brink.

Arizona, you’re off my list.