It's Time to Boycott Arizona

[UofMfan]

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

Jason Linkins
jason@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting

Via Ken Layne at Wonkette, this is just the worst story in the world:

An Arizona elementary school mural featuring the faces of kids who attend the school has been the subject of constant daytime drive-by racist screaming, from adults, as well as a radio talk-show campaign (by an actual city councilman, who has an AM talk-radio show) to remove the black student's face, and now the school principal has ordered the faces of the Latino and Black students to be changed to Caucasian skin.

F'ing hell. Read the rest of the details here. And here's Richard Lawson's reaction, at Gawker.

What can I say about this? We are talking about a bunch of mentally deranged adults, who have terrorized an elementary school, for daring to paint a mural featuring the faces of black and Latino children -- actual black and Latino children who live in Arizona. And we're also talking about a group of adults who have decided to send a stirring message to their students and the world: when a bunch of mentally deranged adults -- and we are not talking about people who are particularly threatening, this is a bunch of utterly gutless mopes, yelling racial slurs from their cars, egged on by some pinhead city councilman cowering behind a radio microphone -- threaten a bunch of children, the best thing to do is to accede to their psychotic, racist "demands."

Seriously, educators of Prescott, Arizona, when some creep demands you whiten the faces of your own students on a mural, the correct response is to say, "No, we will not be doing anything of the sort."

This story really should be blasted, far and wide. You cable news producers need to get this story in the mix with a quickness. And let me be clear to you all: there are no "two sides to this story." This is not something you need to have a panel discussion about. CNN, I don't want to see you plumbing the depths of your counterintuition on your website, or lending credence to the notion that the gutless mopes in their cars, shrieking racial slurs at the images of children have an interesting point of view that we should "hear out" because of the need to be "balanced." This is your moment to decry, condemn, and brutalize these evil people.

Blast them to hell, or go jump in the Gulf of Mexico.

[Soon]

I read about that yesterday, U.

It's almost too horrific to believe.

I don't understand these people and the fact that the school (!) conceded to ugly racism makes me ill.

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

I read about that yesterday, U.

It's almost too horrific to believe.

I don't understand these people and the fact that the school (!) conceded to ugly racism makes me ill.

Yes, adorable posted a link in the racism, race relations thread, if anyone wants to read it. page 14, post #272

Disgusting and unbelievable.

[UofMfan]

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

I read about that yesterday, U.

It's almost too horrific to believe.

I don't understand these people and the fact that the school (!) conceded to ugly racism makes me ill.

Right?! I mean, the crazies I am used to, but the fact that the school conceded is mind blowing.

This is not the country that I learned to love. I am so sad seeing what is going on, and not just in AZ, but nationwide.

[DapperButch]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_601436.html

[UofMfan]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_601436.html

Or you could have seen that this is what I posted.

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by UofMfan

Or you could have seen that this is what I posted.

My mistake. Snark much?

Geezus.

[UofMfan]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

My mistake. Snark much?

Geezus.

No, no snark, just a statement.

[Toughy]

Originally Posted by UofMfan

Or you could have seen that this is what I posted.

actually Dapper's link gave me more information........there were links in the article that didn't show up on your post....

[Mister Bent]

I'm thinking we could solve two problems currently plaguing our nation.

Let's send the Arizona racists to the gulf to plug/sop up the BP oil spill. Just cram a few dozen down that hole in the pipe, use some others to soak up oil, like white bread in gravy, and maybe we could wipe down some oil fouled pelicans with still others.

Who do I need to write?

[UofMfan]

Originally Posted by Mister Bent

I'm thinking we could solve two problems currently plaguing our nation.

Let's send the Arizona racists to the gulf to plug/sop up the BP oil spill. Just cram a few dozen down that hole in the pipe, use some others to soak up oil, like white bread in gravy, and maybe we could wipe down some oil fouled pelicans with still others.

Who do I need to write?

You first need to write the Governor of AZ and tell her to lead by example, then, after we all celebrate, you can write Rush and the rest of the conservative whacks and ask them to follow suit.

[Random]

The further whiting of america.. Because no other peoples have made ANY impact on this country...

It makes me fucking sick.. really.. like I need to toss my cookies..

WHAT THE FUCK DOES IT MATTER WHAT COLOR ANYONE IS??????

You respect someones culture, you try to understand that you might have been raised differently and have different responces to the world...

But really.. Every race... EVERY Race have the same type of people in it..

You take a cross cutting from any culture, any color spectrum and you are going to have the exact same personality spectrum..


*rant*

When I was a young teenager just starting to think about dating boys.. My brothers gathered round me and told me why I couldn't date boys of certain races..

Now, only one of these boys that I called brother was my biological brother..
the other four were his best friends...

Each of these boys told me why I couldn't date a boy of their race..

You know what? The reason was all the same..

Beat me and get me pregnant...

They just prefexed it with race...

I remember looking at them and thinking.. Ya'll are crazy.. you just don't want me to date... /end rant*

I'm really starting to think that this world has a soul sickness..

[Soon]

Has this story broken into MSM in the USA? CNN or any of the major network news?

This story needs to be all over the place. It needs attention and exposure. I want to see the people interviewed who made the school *whitening* decision.

So angry.

[UofMfan]

Random, it is pretty sickening. Racism is alive and well in North America. It just seems to me that there is a new wave of it and the scary part is that this time around they are actually proud of it and taking it to the streets and it is deep in government.

HSIN, I haven't seen it anywhere else but HuffPo and the Marion Observer. This is one of the problems, mainstream media is not covering this mostly because those who own it are in on it. My opinion.

[Soon]

I don't know, U, it seems SO outrageous to me that even the MSM would want a stab at it despite owners/bias etc.

Maybe Maddow will pick the story up...I'd love to see THAT interview.

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by UofMfan

Random, it is pretty sickening. Racism is alive and well in North America. It just seems to me that there is a new wave of it and the scary part is that this time around they are actually proud of it and taking it to the streets and it is deep in government.

HSIN, I haven't seen it anywhere else but HuffPo and the Marion Observer. This is one of the problems, mainstream media is not covering this mostly because those who own it are in on it. My opinion.

U, you have hit it for me... it is the pride in racism that seems different to me.

I knew that with the financial crisis and recession, we would see an upsurg in bold racist statements, actions, etc. along with obama being elected. But, whoa...