Amber Sparks
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F**k You, Arizona. Seriously.
June 4, 2010
This is so unbelievable that the gall and rage is rising in my throat and choking off all breath. The stabbiness is reaching epic proportions. This must be what apoplexy feels like.
From Wonkette:
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.
That’s right. Racist white bastards in Arizona are so hopping made about black and Latino faces on a goddamn school mural that the school principal has now CAVED to their demands to make those students white. Real students of color, turned white. WTF. WTFFFFF. What will this do to the self-esteem, to the psyches of those kids–having their OWN IMAGES PAINTED OVER IN WHITE?
The only thing that gives me bitter satisfaction in this is knowing that these people are all mostly old and will be dead soon enough, and a more diverse, tolerant, multicultural melting pot of a nation will emerge from the people who are young now. It’s not much satisfaction, but I’m going to have a heart attack if I don’t give myself something to grab onto here.
