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| Arizona gov. signs bill targeting ethnic studies |
| 2010-05-12 |
| Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill targeting a school district's ethnic studies program on Tuesday, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure. State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the measure for years, said a Tucson school district program promotes "ethnic chauvinism" and racial resentment toward whites while segregating students by race. "It's just like the old South, and it's long past time that we prohibited it," Horne said. The measure prohibits classes that advocate ethnic solidarity, that are designed primarily for students of a particular race or that promote resentment toward a certain ethnic group. It also prohibits classes that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #14 RECONQUISTA? I'm going to start a movement to conquer Mexico's border states and clean out the riffraff poison-peddling and murderous criminal element. Remember the ALAMO! |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-12 17:27 |
| #13 I teach in Arizona. Efforts by uberliberals to ensure a RECONQUISTA via "ethnic studies" are obvious even to the blind. Budget cuts here in Tucson have resulted in the firing of hundreds of certified teachers (English, the Arts, Math, Science,etc.) "Ethnic Studies", however, are untouchables on the budget chopping board. Check out the left leaning Arizona Daily Star on any day for LaRaza & Aztlan rants - then check the readers comments to view opinions from the common man on the street... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2010-05-12 16:57 |
| #12 And add to that this idiot UCLA history "professor" who spoke at a Stand With La Raza" rally and called for a Communist, Mexican Uprising against racist white people. Sounded more like MeCHA than La Raza. In line with that today we also see an Illinois girl's basketball team denied a chance to play in AZ because the superintendant believes that the girls safety cannot be guaranteed. More of the violent, racist conservatism narrative again. The left is going beserk. They know they've only a few months before their statist allies in Congress get the boot. The tension is wratcheting up and will continue to do so. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2010-05-12 16:07 |
| #11 Meanwhile, in Ann Arbor Michigan: An elementary school principal in Michigan is under investigation for authorizing a field trip last week for 30 black students to meet with an African-American rocket scientist. Students who are not black were excluded from the outing -- a possible violation of a state law that bans racial favoritism in public schools. "The district is investigating the allegations of violation of the State of Michigan Proposal 2," a spokeswoman for the Ann Arbor, Mich., school district told FoxNews.com. "There was no ill-intent or malice in the principal and teachers planning this field trip," she added...parental complaints turned into allegations that the school had violated Proposal 2, a newly enacted Michigan law that bans racial preference in public schools. "If it was directed, guided, organized by the school district, they cannot say they are doing a field trip today for blacks only, or for whites only, or for Hispanics only or for Asians only," Leon Drolet, the former chairman of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, told the Detroit Free Press. But district spokeswoman Liz Margolis said that bridging the gap in test scores between white and black students was a serious issue that legitimized the trip. Plus, she said, the field trip was paid for by a private donation. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-12 12:14 |
| #10 Damn! I am liking Arizona more and more..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-05-12 11:32 |
| #9 You mean schools will actually teach the facts instead of a slanted version of modern racism!?!? Those bastards! /sarc |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-05-12 11:19 |
| #8 I might be tempted to get the "word problems" out of algebra too. :) |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-12 11:16 |
| #7 Now to get the marxists out of the economics course then the greens out of the biology course. then the creationists out of the science course. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-05-12 09:53 |
| #6 Good for Arizona. Get rid of the left's agenda-driven courses and the revisionism. Plenty to learn that is useful. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-12 09:44 |
| #5 These "La Raza" classes were an obscenity. Here is the statement of a real teacher, assigned to be the "teacher of record", for one such class, but supposed to turn the class over to instruction by non-certified, anti-American agitators. http://www.alipac.us/article3210.html This teacher was not thrilled with the idea. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-05-12 09:11 |
| #4 Like the Tea Party movement, it's an indication that the old guilt game played by the Left is losing its influence. Watch them radicalize their efforts even more rather than fall back, reassess, and develop a different methodology. Ethnic groups are going to be used and victimized by the Left in a desperate attempt to regain its power. Unfortunately, there are those within those groups more than willing to be sacrificed as 'true believers' not understanding that they're just tools for the Left. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-05-12 08:52 |
| #3 I know what state I am moving to when I retire. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-05-12 08:36 |
| #2 after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure. Another reason to believe it is a step in the right direction. |
| Posted by: JFM 2010-05-12 03:22 |
| #1 A step in a right direction. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-05-12 02:24 |