In AZ school mural project, artists told to make the faces a whiter shade of pale.

I’m not making this stuff up. It’s Arizona.

The artists at Miller Valley Elementary School in Prescott Arizona were painting a mural promoting green transportation. The central figure in the mural was a Hispanic kid. The principal told them to make the figures whiter.

No. Really. He did.

Maybe the principal will be invited to the White House for lunch and a friendly exchange of ideas.

AZ Central:

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?”