It's Time to Boycott Arizona

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Originally Posted by UofMfan

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

Jason Linkins HuffPost Reporting

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:

I am not a racist individual, 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?'

Yes. WHY DID SOMEONE PUT A BLACK PERSON ON A PAINTING? You "have" to "ask" the "question!"

Anyway, Steve Blair lost too, and I am delighted.

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

Isn't it always the case that when some twit is advocating some racist or racially charged perspective that they ALWAYS have one or two convenient 'black friends' who, if the speaker is pressed, always agrees with the racist sentiment or doesn't think it is racist? I think this guy's definition of 'friend', at least vis a vis black people, is "I don't call them names, I acknowledge their existence at the grocery store, and I didn't move or call the police the moment they moved in to the neighborhood".

The thing I want to know is how bad does it have to get before people stop saying that ANY opposition to racist laws, actions or people is 'playing the race card'? It seems that 'playing the race card' applies to any such opposition for 20 or 30 years after the incident. So right now, we are FINALLY far enough removed from the civil rights movement that it is no longer playing the race card.

"Making trouble" = "being uppity" = "creating racial tension" = "playing the race card"