"The pressure stayed up consistently," Wall said. "We had two months of cars shouting at us."
He attributes the start of the racial controversy to recent comments that Prescott City Councilman Steve Blair made on his KYCA radio talk show about the mural.
On his May 21 show, for instance, Blair said, "I am not a racist individual, 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?’"
On Wednesday, Blair again emphasized that "I’m not a racist by any stretch of the imagination, but whenever people start talking about diversity, it’s a word I can’t stand."
Blair questions whether the mural is representative of Prescott, noting, "The focus doesn’t need to be on what’s different; the focus doesn’t need to be on the minority all the time."
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and BTW...the kid that is assumed to be black...is Hispanic
If this keeps up, what's going to happen with some of these kids that winds up going to a college that requires them to have credits in minority studies to graduate?
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