We need one of these.
Altered mural fuels racial debate in ArizonaBy Dennis Wagner, USA TODAYA group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a large public mural at a Prescott, Ariz., school.The project's leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children's ethnicity. But the school's principal says the request was only to fix shading and had nothing to do with political pressure.The "Go on Green" mural, which covers two walls outside Miller Valley Elementary School, was designed to advertise a campaign for environmentally friendly transportation. It features portraits of four children, with a Hispanic boy as the dominant figure.R.E. Wall, director of Prescott's Downtown Mural Project, said he and other artists were subjected to slurs from motorists as they worked on the painting at one of the town's most prominent intersections."We consistently, for two months, had people shouting racial slander from their cars," Wall said. "We had children painting with us, and here come these yells of (epithet for Blacks) and (epithet for Hispanics)."Wall said school Principal Jeff Lane pressed him to make the children's faces appear happier and brighter."It is being lightened because of the controversy," Wall said, adding that "they want it to look like the children are coming into light."Lane said that he received only three complaints about the mural and that his request for a touch-up had nothing to do with political pressure. "We asked them to fix the shading on the children's faces," he said. "We were looking at it from an artistic view. Nothing at all to do with race."City Councilman Steve Blair spearheaded a public campaign on his talk show at Prescott radio station KYCA-AM (1490) to remove the mural.In a broadcast last month, according to the Daily Courier in Prescott, Blair mistakenly complained that the most prominent child in the painting is African-American, saying: "To depict the biggest picture on the building as a Black person, I would have to ask the question: Why?"Blair could not be reached for comment Thursday. In audio archives of his radio show, Blair discusses the mural. He insists the controversy isn't about racism but says the mural is intended to create racial controversy where none existed before."Personally, I think it's pathetic," he says. "You have changed the ambience of that building to excite some kind of diversity power struggle that doesn't exist in Prescott, Arizona. And I'm ashamed of that."Faces in the mural were drawn from photographs of children enrolled at Miller Valley, a K-5 school with 380 students and the highest ethnic mix of any school in Prescott. Wall said thousands of town residents volunteered or donated to the project, the fourth in a series of community murals painted by a group of artists known as the "Mural Mice."The public art, funded by a $5,000 state grant through the Prescott Alternative Transportation Center, was selected by school students and faculty.
By Dennis Wagner, USA TODAYA group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a large public mural at a Prescott, Ariz., school.
The project's leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children's ethnicity. But the school's principal says the request was only to fix shading and had nothing to do with political pressure.
The "Go on Green" mural, which covers two walls outside Miller Valley Elementary School, was designed to advertise a campaign for environmentally friendly transportation. It features portraits of four children, with a Hispanic boy as the dominant figure.
R.E. Wall, director of Prescott's Downtown Mural Project, said he and other artists were subjected to slurs from motorists as they worked on the painting at one of the town's most prominent intersections.
"We consistently, for two months, had people shouting racial slander from their cars," Wall said. "We had children painting with us, and here come these yells of (epithet for Blacks) and (epithet for Hispanics)."
Wall said school Principal Jeff Lane pressed him to make the children's faces appear happier and brighter.
"It is being lightened because of the controversy," Wall said, adding that "they want it to look like the children are coming into light."
Lane said that he received only three complaints about the mural and that his request for a touch-up had nothing to do with political pressure. "We asked them to fix the shading on the children's faces," he said. "We were looking at it from an artistic view. Nothing at all to do with race."
City Councilman Steve Blair spearheaded a public campaign on his talk show at Prescott radio station KYCA-AM (1490) to remove the mural.
In a broadcast last month, according to the Daily Courier in Prescott, Blair mistakenly complained that the most prominent child in the painting is African-American, saying: "To depict the biggest picture on the building as a Black person, I would have to ask the question: Why?"
Blair could not be reached for comment Thursday. In audio archives of his radio show, Blair discusses the mural. He insists the controversy isn't about racism but says the mural is intended to create racial controversy where none existed before.
"Personally, I think it's pathetic," he says. "You have changed the ambience of that building to excite some kind of diversity power struggle that doesn't exist in Prescott, Arizona. And I'm ashamed of that."
Faces in the mural were drawn from photographs of children enrolled at Miller Valley, a K-5 school with 380 students and the highest ethnic mix of any school in Prescott. Wall said thousands of town residents volunteered or donated to the project, the fourth in a series of community murals painted by a group of artists known as the "Mural Mice."
The public art, funded by a $5,000 state grant through the Prescott Alternative Transportation Center, was selected by school students and faculty.
― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-06-04-altered-mural-arizona-race-debate_N.htm
ASLSL;DLFKPEFDSFMIOSO
― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh ffs
― apparently not the band, but the lifestyle (jjjusten), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
sayin
― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
i can't even comprehend that this is happening... it like makes me angry beyond angry
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ლ support our troops ლ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
fwiw:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/06/09/2010-06-09_prescott_city_councilman_steve_blair_loses_radio_host_job_over_bashing_minoritie.html
Prescott City Councilman Steve Blair loses radio host job over bashing minorities in school mural
An Arizona city has seen the light.
A Prescott politician who mocked an elementary school mural featuring minority students was axed from his radio talk-show and now faces a mounting recall campaign.
Last week, artists who painted the mural that promoted green transportation were told by the school to lighten the children's faces. Tuesday, they were told to restore the original tones of the faces, the Arizona Republic reports.
"I am not a racist individual," City Councilman Steve Blair said on a his radio show last month, "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?'"
He added that diversity is a word "I can't stand."
A Hispanic boy is the most prominent figure in the mural.
The controversy raged as the state deals with praise and anger over its harsh immigration law.
Blair, Tuesday, denied he's racist and declared his intention to remain in office.
In a news conference, the politician complained the artists and school officials should have educated him on the meaning of the "Go on Green" mural.
"That might have helped clue me," Blair said. "They assumed because I asked the question [about the painting] that I was a racist and a bigot."
The owner of the radio station dumped Blair because his words "could be interpreted as racist." However, he said Blair wasn't racist, just someone who "puts his foot in his mouth."
Meanwhile, some Prescott residents want Blair, who's served for six years, out of office, too.
Barbara Braswell, who is mother to four children of mixed races, said she needs more than 2,800 signatures to get a recall election on this November's ballot.
Miller Valley Elementary School Principal Jeff Lane apologized for directing artists to lighten the skin color of the children.
"They [the artists] are going back to the way this was originally," Lane said.
― jeff, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ebert on the mural & broader thoughts about race in general
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
the first report is really elegantly damning, but i suppose the facts speak 4 themselves
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I am kind of sad to be moving to AZ for grad school when all this bullshit is happening, but also a tiny bit relieved, in that at least I'll be able to vote against some of this shit, or have more of a political voice bcz of being a citizen there.
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Can this Steve Blair guy put together a coherent sentence?
― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
ppl h8
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
"I am not a racist individual," City Councilman Steve Blair said on a his radio show last month, "but...
when I grew up we had four black families - who I have been very good friends with for years
classic signposts or what
― circa1916, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Man, Ebert these days just has a writing voice like ... I dunno. He's come out into this sort of plainspoken-Midwestern hard-won-wisdom voice where even when he's making a pretty conventional point, it gets me in the gut.
xpost - the best part of that is the unfortunate wording of "we had four black families"
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
ebert's always been a very -- very -- gifted writer.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
I somehow never knew that Roger Ebert was such an all-around wonderful person, and not just "the movie guy", until like 6 months back. But he has quickly become a favorite.
― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
iirc, his movie criticism tends to veer into broader cultural criticism. he isn't frank rich, in that respect (i.e., made the jump from entertainment criticism to opinion pieces), but he's no stranger to addressing broader social issues.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Eberts the man!
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
He is a dude (and apparently dated my step-aunt in the '70s).
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah. And I had no idea he was in SDS!
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
(that stands for Suzy's Date Society)
that ebert piece is very affecting.
watching the youtube of that radio host kinda made me sick.
― the dj screwtape letters (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
worst line of all imo
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
some kind of diversity power struggle that doesn't exist in Prescott, Arizona
― All small bassoons have at one time or another been called fagottino (crüt), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
some kind ofdiversity powerstrugglethatdoesn't existinPrescott, Arizona
― All small bassoons have at one time or another been called fagottino (crüt), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
because having non-white people in a painting is obviously an attempt to create a "diversity power struggle"
ffs
― the other is a black gay gentleman from Los Angeles (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 June 2010 00:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Damn and now border patrol agents are killing Mexicans for throwing rocks over the border!!
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 10 June 2010 02:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
T.J. Bonner, president of the union representing Border Patrol agents, said rock throwing aimed at Border Patrol agents is common and capable of causing serious injury."It is a deadly force encounter, one that justifies the use of deadly force," Bonner said.
― jeff, Thursday, 10 June 2010 02:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
This country is fucking embarrassing sometimes.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 June 2010 02:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
if you don't like it, leave, asshole
― akontenderizer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 10 June 2010 03:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
just kidding, this country fuckin blows
DUH IM AMERICA I DONT WANT SOCIALIST DOCTORS BECAUSE THE TEEVEE MAN TOLD ME SO BUT LET ME KEEP MY MEDICAID DERP DERP DERP
― akontenderizer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 10 June 2010 03:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
now i'm not a racist individual
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 04:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
but seriously guys....
black people
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 04:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
is basically what he said
and then the classic "some of my best friends are black"
And he can't tell the diff btwn black people and mexican people. WTG guy.
― property-disrespecting Moroccan handjob (Trayce), Thursday, 10 June 2010 04:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
"some of the people I have are black friends"
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Thursday, 10 June 2010 05:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
"'friends'"
I am no racist, but the artist KNEW those kids were Mud Peoples when he threw them all up in our lillywhite faces.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 10 June 2010 07:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
man ebert is really a hero
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/arpaio_backs_az_state_treasurers_plan_to_create_te.php
Dean Martin, Arizona state treasurer and Republican candidate for governor, is pushing a plan that would create "tent cities" to house convicted illegal immigrants, modeled after notorious anti-immigration Sheriff Joe Arpaio's set-up in his own Maricopa County.
In an interview with TPM, Martin described how the tent cities would provide "inexpensive temporary housing" that could save the state enough money to deploy troops down to the border.
― goole, Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Has anybody died of heatstroke in Arpaio's tent city? Seems inevitable.
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Arpaio needs to go to fucking jail like YESTERDAY. Hate him so goddamn much.
― Blog is a concept by which we measure our pain (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Real talk.
― fuck being hard, suburbs are complicated (The Reverend), Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's like God decided just for laughs to let a James Ellroy character exist IRL and gave him teflon skin just for good measure.
― Blog is a concept by which we measure our pain (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
hi there. i'm state treasurer dean martin, and i'm running for governor.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
Reminds me of the vampire-hating preacher in True Blood.
― Blog is a concept by which we measure our pain (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
Arizona is the fucking worst, which is a shame because it's really a beautiful state
― Chris S, Friday, 13 April 2012 23:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
how long has arizona been like this? since goldwater? before? later?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 14 April 2012 05:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
There was a pretty good Daily Show segment on the ethnics studies course thing a few weeks ago.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 14 April 2012 07:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-april-2-2012/tucson-s-mexican-american-studies-ban
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 14 April 2012 07:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh wow
― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 April 2012 07:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
rosa clark? freally??
― Hoo Nu Cookies (crüt), Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
crazuki beans
― BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_southeast_valley/gilbert/fd-multiple-victims-in-gilbert-shooting?hpt=hp_t2
fuck this worthless nazi state.
― how's life, Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
fuck you how's life
― President Keyes, Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh my god :(
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 May 2012 17:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
my dad just said "i wonder why everyone is mad at joseph arpaio all of a sudden. that's strange."
sigh
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Friday, 11 May 2012 01:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
"well this is classic. he's one of the best sheriff's there ever was"
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Friday, 11 May 2012 01:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
i didn't realize that his county included the sixth-largest city in the united states/a greater population than that of 23 states
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 May 2012 01:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-justice-sheriff-20120511,0,158798.story
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, asking a federal court to prevent the brazen and outspoken lawman from racially profiling Latinos, abusing them in his jails and retaliating against his critics.
"The police are supposed to protect and support our community, not divide them," said Assistant Atty. Gen. Thomas E. Perez, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division. "This is an abuse of power case involving a sheriff and a sheriff's office that has ignored the Constitution."
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, alleges that Arpaio's Maricopa County department engages in a "pattern of unconstitutional conduct" against Latinos, especially immigrants.
― madame boo berry (donna rouge), Friday, 11 May 2012 01:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
i wonder why everyone is mad at joseph arpaio all of a sudden. that's strange.
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Friday, 11 May 2012 02:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha 'joseph arpaio.'
that reminds me of someone pointing out during the clinton scandal how you could tell what side someone was on when they referred to 'judge starr.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 11 May 2012 07:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.alternet.org/rights/155384/10_worst_things_arizona%27s_racist_sheriff_joe_arpaio_has_done/
― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
1. Forcing Women To Sleep In Their Own Menstrual Blood: In Arpaio’s jails, “female Latino LEP prisoners have been denied basic sanitary items. In some instances, female Latino LEP prisoners have been forced to remain with sheets or pants soiled from menstruation because of MCSO’s failure to ensure that detention officers provide language assistance in such circumstances.”
2. Assaulting Pregnant Women: “[A]n MCSO officer stopped a Latina woman – a citizen of the United States and five months pregnant at the time – as she pulled into her driveway. After she exited her car, the officer then insisted that she sit on the hood of the car. When she refused, the officer grabbed her arms, pulled them behind her back, and slammed her, stomach first, into the vehicle three times. He then dragged her to the patrol car and shoved her into the backseat. He left her in the patrol car for approximately 30 minutes without air conditioning. The MCSO officer ultimately issued a citation for failure to provide identification.”
― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't normally wish death on people but i hope someone fucking impales this worthless hateful excuse for a human with a rusty pickaxe
― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have a friend who was on one of Arpaio's chain gangs back in the 90s. Yes, he's Hispanic.
― President Keyes, Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
personally i think he's one of the best sheriffs this country has ever had
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
he's got stiff competition from a bunch of other racist yahoos tho
― President Keyes, Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
― The Reverend, Friday, May 11, 2012 2:21 PM (1 hour ago)
thank you for focusing your reactionary hyperbole on a single lightning rod of a guy instead of an entire state made up of all kinds of people : )
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 12 May 2012 01:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
you're very welcome XD
― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2012 01:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
rev's (hyperbolically phrased) ire against this "single lightning rod of a guy" seems entirely warranted to me
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Saturday, 12 May 2012 02:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wouldn't really describe that reaction as hyperbolic, after Breitbart died I was thinking of the very few people i would really like to see dead, and Arpaio definitely makes the list.
― JoeStork, Saturday, 12 May 2012 02:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
You guys remember the whole 'sloth' sequence in Se7en, right? So it makes sense if I say something like, "I want Joe Arpaio to get 'sloth'-ed", yeah? I just wanna make sure y'all would understand the context if I were to ever use that particular verb form in a sentence, is all.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 12 May 2012 02:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wouldn't really describe that reaction as hyperbolic
on principle, i think it's best to describe all death threats, no matter how vague, as "hyperbolic"
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Saturday, 12 May 2012 03:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
it was hyperbolic tbrr
― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
There was a point not too long ago that it was almost all, aww, Sheriff Joe, how cute! Maybe around the 60 Minutes profile? Clearly he was horrific back then, but perhaps we were all in collective denial when they trotted out the prisoners in pink jumpsuits, eating bologna on white bread? I want to say it was before his xenophobia and anti-immigrant rhetoric ratcheted up.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 May 2012 04:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
rev's (hyperbolically phrased) ire against this "single lightning rod of a guy" seems entirely warranted to me― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, May 11, 2012 4:28 PM (3 hours ago)
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, May 11, 2012 4:28 PM (3 hours ago)
yes, contenderizzzzer, it is.
especially compared to:
fuck this worthless nazi state.― how's life, Thursday, May 3, 2012 3:57 AM (1 week ago)
― how's life, Thursday, May 3, 2012 3:57 AM (1 week ago)
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 12 May 2012 06:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
JoeStork
― buzza, Saturday, 12 May 2012 06:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
who is how's life anyway (assuming it's a reg)
― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2012 10:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
ILX2 NEW USERNAME TRANSLATOR COMPENDIUM
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 12 May 2012 10:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
sorry zonies. your nazis are a pretty intense breed though.
― how's life, Saturday, 12 May 2012 10:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
damn, i don't think i've caught onto any of your names since, kkvgz. i liked that one anyway and never had the vajazzle association.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2012 19:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
i've been fucking up all over with the screennames.
― how's life, Saturday, 12 May 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
what a disaster
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 14 May 2012 00:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Arizona!
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/arizona_ken_bennett_obama_birth_certificate_birther.php
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bennett, the state’s No. 2 elected official just below Gov. Jan Brewer (R), said his investigation isn’t personal. He said the reason he started looking into it is because he got more than 1,200 emails asking him to do so after Arpaio’s investigation came out.
Hey, can we coordinate an effort to send him 1,201 emails asking him to die in a fire?
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/20/554471/aclu-emails-from-author-of-sb-1070-prove-racial-motivation/
“Battles commence as Mexican nationalists struggle to infuse their men into American government and strengthen control over their strongholds. One look at Los Angeles with its Mexican-American mayor shows you Vincente Fox’s general Varigossa commanding an American city.”
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Friday, 20 July 2012 18:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
"Varigossa"
― goole, Friday, 20 July 2012 18:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
“Corruption is the mechanism by which Mexico operates. Its people spawn more corruption wherever they go because it is their only known way of life.”“Tough, nasty illegals and their advocates grow in such numbers that law and order will not subdue them. They run us out of our cities and states. They conquer our language and our schools. They render havoc and chaos in our schools.”“We are much like the Titanic as we inbreed millions of Mexico’s poor, the world’s poor and we watch our country sink.”
“Tough, nasty illegals and their advocates grow in such numbers that law and order will not subdue them. They run us out of our cities and states. They conquer our language and our schools. They render havoc and chaos in our schools.”
“We are much like the Titanic as we inbreed millions of Mexico’s poor, the world’s poor and we watch our country sink.”
qfjfc
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 July 2012 18:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
“I’m racist because I don’t want to be taxed to pay for a prison population comprised of mainly Hispanics, Latinos, Mexicans or whatever else you wish to call them.”“I’m a racist because I believe the News Media has a duty to tell us the names and race of criminals.”“I’m a racist because I object to having to pay higher sales tax and property tax to build more schools for the illegitimate children of illegal aliens.”“I’m a racist because I dislike having to push one for English and/or listening to a message in Spanish.”
“I’m a racist because I believe the News Media has a duty to tell us the names and race of criminals.”
“I’m a racist because I object to having to pay higher sales tax and property tax to build more schools for the illegitimate children of illegal aliens.”
“I’m a racist because I dislike having to push one for English and/or listening to a message in Spanish.”
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 July 2012 18:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
"the emails, acquired through a public records request, are to and from the author of SB 1070, recalled Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce (R)."
are the quotes from Pearce, then, or are they excerpts from emails that were written TO Pearce?
― your friend, (Z S), Friday, 20 July 2012 19:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
good question, i didn't catch that
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 July 2012 19:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
i'm looking through the emails (http://www.azcentral.com/kpnx/pdf/Pochada-pearce-emails.pdf) and yep, he wrote all of that stuff. wow. people elected this guy. representative democracy.
― your friend, (Z S), Friday, 20 July 2012 19:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
the problem with representative democracy is that it looks like you
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 July 2012 19:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
at least the dude was recalled
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 July 2012 19:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
Fuck man this is annoying enough as a facebook meme, acting like having 3 seconds added to your IVRU message is some unparalleled burden, but as a reason to legislate something like this....asdgbv/oagbviujsfw vc ufraw
― in charge of refreshments tonight is (Abbbottt), Friday, 20 July 2012 20:52 (10 months ago) Permalink