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Mural Ignites Debate on Race, Censorship in Arizona (Mural Character's Skin Too Dark?)
AOL News ^ | June 5, 2010 | Hugh Collins

Posted on 06/05/2010 6:22:17 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

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1 posted on 06/05/2010 6:22:18 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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More coverage:

“Art Attack: Elementary school mural getting a ‘lighter’ facelift”: http://www.prescottaz.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubsectionID=1086&ArticleID=81753

“Altered mural fuels racial debate in Prescott”: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/06/04/20100604arizona-mural-sparks-racial-debate.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnO6DJ8RqIE&feature=player_embedded


2 posted on 06/05/2010 6:25:41 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

Once again, the ‘Adults’ get it wrong....


3 posted on 06/05/2010 6:27:31 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Are You Ready?)
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To: DogByte6RER
art should be a hammer that shatters the illusion of the masses

Alas, "art" frequently just mirrors the illusions of the masses.

4 posted on 06/05/2010 6:28:55 PM PDT by outofstyle (Anti-socialist)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

What adults?


5 posted on 06/05/2010 6:33:24 PM PDT by Wombat Ark
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To: DogByte6RER

Apparently we can’t have diversity on a mural, even if it looks like Commie Chinese propaganda posters


6 posted on 06/05/2010 6:39:13 PM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: Wombat Ark
What adults?

Precious few in this story.

7 posted on 06/05/2010 6:56:53 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: GeronL

The second one reminds me of one of those `Find the Things That Don’t Belong’ pictures in Highlights kids’ magazine, found in dentists’ waiting rooms.
1. The raccoon isn’t wearing a mask, but maybe the artist thought this stigmatized him in some way. Or maybe AZ `coons don’t have masks.
2. Someone left out a box full of empty plastic bottles. Those should have been pitched in the trash.
3. And what are those old tires doing on the rock?
4. The animal in the background looks like Pokey, Gumby’s mount.
5. What’s with the vampire bat?! That’s going to frighten children ...
Seems to me the artist could have taken a little more time composing his work. ;^)


8 posted on 06/05/2010 7:07:12 PM PDT by tumblindice (snort snort snort)
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To: DogByte6RER

Ugly art. Who paid for it?


9 posted on 06/05/2010 7:19:45 PM PDT by McGavin999 (I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
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To: tumblindice; writer33

lol!


10 posted on 06/05/2010 7:26:17 PM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: DogByte6RER

The kid in the top painting looks like a black Mao Tse-dong.


11 posted on 06/05/2010 7:29:51 PM PDT by TigersEye ("Flotilla" means "pirate ships running supplies to terrorists.")
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To: DogByte6RER
you could paint them both white and one of them would still look black and the other mexkin...
12 posted on 06/05/2010 7:31:53 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: tumblindice

The artists are allowing a raccoon to steal and eat a perfectly edible crawdad ~ that should be reserved for the hu-manz.


13 posted on 06/05/2010 7:32:38 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: McGavin999

I think the property owners who pay taxes to the Prescott school district footed the bill for this crappy art.

Note: The art is crappy whether the skin color of the portraits are “whitened” or not.


14 posted on 06/05/2010 8:14:24 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

I disagree. The coon’s mask is too light.


15 posted on 06/05/2010 8:24:49 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
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To: DogByte6RER
I agree. It's horrible art. You see that crap all over California and it looks like the kind of stuff you see in building in Russia or China. It's ugly.

I think the taxpayers need to get together and decide on a nice shade of beige to cover it up.

16 posted on 06/05/2010 8:27:36 PM PDT by McGavin999 (I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
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To: DogByte6RER

No backward ballcaps or buttcracks visible?


17 posted on 06/05/2010 8:41:36 PM PDT by Jumpmaster (Defund the Left!)
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To: DogByte6RER

That type of art is all over Tucson. It is the same type of art that the Communists posted everywhere they could get a foothold in the early part of the Twentieth Century. It is meant to divide communities.

It is ugly, it does not represent the whole community, it does not lift the spirit in joy. It makes the children look unattractive, they do not smile with their eyes.

Are there no white children in Prescot? Prescott has traditionally been a rancher’s town in the past. Are there no pictures of children helping on the ranch? Could not the black and indian child have been depicted more attractively?

How come there are not pictures of children of different races playing with each other?

Are the artists racists?


18 posted on 06/05/2010 8:59:31 PM PDT by amihow
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To: DogByte6RER
The mural aims to fight childhood obesity by encouraging children to walk or cycle to school.

If the school at which it was painted has mostly minority kids, it would be perfectly natural to portray those kids on it. And even if it's not a school with mostly minority kids, it is minority kids who seem to be at great risk for obesity.

I think this was a knee-jerk reaction by a thin-skinned councilman.

19 posted on 06/05/2010 9:30:41 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: DogByte6RER

This is he, the one with the smug look of having been educated beyond his abilities.

http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S1590297.shtml?cat=565


20 posted on 06/06/2010 12:33:15 AM PDT by widdle_wabbit
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