Altered mural fuels racial debate in Prescott, AZ

By TheGrio Staff

·June 5, 2010

A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school.

From The Arizona Republic

A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott 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.

“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).”