Immigration mural vandalized by racist slurs
July 29, 2009 5:28 PM | 3 Comments

For a month, art students in the Pilsen community have worked on a two-story, 30-foot-wide mural supporting immigration. Overnight, someone scrawled over their unfinished work, calling Mexicans "racist" and the artists' message "lies."

"I was just really saddened by the words that were put on there," said Vanessa Sanchez, youth programs project manager for Yollocalli Arts Reach, a youth organization that is part of the National Museum of Mexican Art. "You know this is a mural that we're putting out for our community."

It's the second time in a week and a half that someone has spray-painted graffiti over the artwork, which proclaims "We are a nation of immigrants" and "No human being is illegal."

Sanchez said they did not call police but may look into investing in video cameras to protect the mural.

She said there are about a dozen artists working on the project on the side of Yollocalli's building at 1401 W. 18th St. The students range in age from 13 to 23, and the mural, titled "Declaration of Immigration," sprang from a past exhibit of the same name at the National Museum of Mexican Art.

Sanchez said the painting, which also includes barbed wire and desert images, is scheduled to be completed by Aug. 10.

-- Erika Slife

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Turn about is fair play ...
Whats good for the goose is good for the gander...
Because we are called racists if we talk against illegal immigration ...
And yes there are plenty of illegals in America...