You would have thought that Arizona raised the Confederate flag over the state capitol today.
In the biggest non-story of the day, the left is all aflutter with the news that in Prescott, AZ artists were asked to lighten the faces of children on a mural on the Miller Valley Elementary School. This story is such big news that it is at the top of Memeorandum. Actually it is a slow news day and this is really the best the left can muster to rant about.
Not ones to take the explanation by the school's principal, Jeff Lane that the committee who commissioned the mural wanted the artists to "make [the children] look happier and more excited, fix the scale of the faces and remove some shadowing that made the faces darker than they are." the nutroots on the left are crying racism even though the one of the artists even admitted that the requested changes would "make the mural more accurately depict the photos of the Miller Valley School models."
You see, the progressives are not happy with Arizona's stand on illegal immigration and are enraged that we will not back down to their rhetoric and lies. So what is a radical to do? Rule 5 says ridicule is man's most potent weapon and rule 13 says pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it and if you don't think this is what they are trying to do, read here and here and here and here.
It is much ado about nothing if you ask me.
Via Memeorandum
(Editor's Note) Chris W. is an Arizona resident and a level-headed libertarian concerned with the problem illegal immigration poses in his state. He blogs at My Thoughts on Freedom.
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As I said elsewhere on this subject, I think Arizona has bigger problems than art. It was a mistake to alter the original mural unless it had objectionable content. Merely being of a different race is not objectionable. More than a mistake, it was probably, to quote our esteemed CinC, "acting stupidly".
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, fixating on the mural is a little like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Anyone is free to do so, but there really are more important things that need our attention.
Good points, Proof. Chris here is under the assumption as well that the whole meme of 'whitening' is inaccurate as well....
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your weekend!
Even if the meme is not "whitening", it's generally not a good idea to mess with "art". You don't paint over a mole on the Mona Lisa, you don't give a penile enlargement to Michaelangelo's David, and even, if it's a street mural, you shouldn't alter an artist's work.
ReplyDeleteUnless the school failed to ask what the final product would look like, and simply trusted the artists (which would not have been a prudent move) or if artists deviated from what it had shown the school what the mural would look like, then it should be left alone.
And I'll try that "weekend" thing! You, too!