Local city councilman Steve Blair - a white cis man, apparently temporarily able-bodied and hetero - insists that wanting to whiten the depiction of some of the children in the mural - which have been the target of racial slurs for months, as the artists have - is totes not racist, dude:
He insists the controversy isn't about racism but says the mural is intended to create racial controversy where none existed before.So, your defense against charges that your response to the mural is racist is basically: it can't be, because there aren't any of those people 'round here?
"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."
Anyone got bingo yet?
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