13th May 2010, 5:40 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/12/a...index.html
More anti-Hispanic racism from Arizona. Very sad.
Yes indeed, this is really, really bad and blatantly racist. What the hell is going on down in Arizona? Now they don't want their children to even learn about Hispanic culture, which has made hugely significant contributions to Arizona's culture overall? It's criminal, and it completely denies the experiences of a huge part of the population who are systematically discriminated and hated against. Any ethnic studies course will necessarily have to include the ways in which the group in question has been prejudiced, because that's a simple fact of life of being a minority group in a predominantly white society. It doesn't teach the "overthrow" of the government (which is laughable in its paranoia, but perhaps in Arizona that wouldn't be such a bad thing to teach) and it's not designed to cater to only one particular race or group, as any student can take an ethnic studies course. It's as much a part of American history as the Tea Party and the Founding Fathers and the Constitution and Virginia Dare and all that other propaganda bullshit that's a standard part of the school curriculum. Michael Eric Dyson makes it pretty clear why the bill is racist in the link you sent, and I don't think I've ever seen such a hilarious intellectual mis-match on TV before. It's too bad Horne is likely to be in a position of significant power in that state pretty soon, though! How can the same state that elects people like Horne, Governor Brewer, an increasingly racist legislature (and not to mention total fucking whack-jobs like Joe Arpaio) also elect highly respected, competent, and admirable politicians like John McCain? Pretty soon Arizona is going to have official laughing-stock status, if it doesn't already.
Quote:The bill was pushed by state school Superintendent Tom Horne, who has spent two years trying to get Tucson schools to drop a Mexican-American studies program he said teaches Latino students they are an oppressed minority.
Wow, I wonder why Latinos would ever think that! Thankfully, they don't need schools to tell them that they're being oppressed, as apparently simply being in Arizona is all you need to figure out that little nugget of information.