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An Arizona lawmaker reportedly doubled down on controversial comments he made earlier this week about the existential threat immigration poses to the country, and how there aren't enough white kids to go around" in the states public school system.
State Rep. David Stringer made the comments Monday at a Republican mens forum event near Prescott, Ariz., which gained traction after David Schapira, a Democratic candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction posted a video of the speech to social media, according to the Phoenix New Times.
Sixty percent of public school children in the state of Arizona today are minorities. That complicates racial integration because there aren't enough white kids to go around," Stringer said, according to the paper. Immigration is politically destabilizing. President Trump has talked about this. Immigration today represents an existential threat to the United States.
While Democrats and pro-immigration groups condemned the comments as overtly racist and a national embarrassment, Stringer reportedly said he was speaking the truth.
I maybe touched a third rail of politics but what I said is accurate, he told the Arizona Capitol Times shortly a fter the comment. Anybody that talks about this in this way is shut down and called a racist. Im speaking the truth.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/arizona-lawmaker-says-there-arent-enough-white-kids-to-go-around-in-states-public-schools/ar-AAyCZ5S?li=BBnbfcL
This is what Trump has enabled.
Initech
(100,081 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Oh gonna bet there is still a area of concentration and that area is not looking for any integration to take place.
Hard to track due to mostly charter in AZ now but
Looks like plenty of white kids @ 80% in Prescott HS, where he is speaking , per their own demos
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/arizona/districts/prescott-unified-district/prescott-high-school-1064/student-body