Arizona's cultural genocide law

[CHIMO]

The onslaught in Arizona of reactionary and immoral racially-based laws has managed to attract worldwide attention. The brown peoples of this state are being relentlessly persecuted by a majority population that wants to forcefully remove us and suppress our rights and deny our humanity. Here, the state has even gone so far as to, via HB 2281, to prohibit the teaching of ethnic studies in Arizona schools.

Unquestionably, the brown peoples of this state are treated as less than human. Not everyone treats us this way – just the majority: mostly conservative Republicans, many of them with a supremacist ideology. Their general attitude is: if you're brown (read Mexican), get the hell out of our God-given country. And for those of you who remain, either assimilate and abide by our laws or face the full wrath of the state.

There is embedded hate against brown peoples in Arizona – the kind associated with the 1800s, a time when the United States forcefully annexed half of Mexico. All of it is thinly veiled under the guise of opposition to "illegal immigration" and "border enforcement". However, the battle here is actually civilisational: brown peoples, many of whom have been here for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, represent the unfinished business of Manifest Destiny. For conservatives, we represent a return to a past in which we are viewed as a conquered, subhuman species. This brazen attitude informs all the recent anti-Mexican and anti-immigrant bills, proposed laws that long for a return to an idyllic past, which, in fact, never existed.

Aside from HB 2281, other bills include : SB 1070 – the racial profiling law; SB 1097 – the proposed law that will require children to identify the immigration status of their parents; and HB 2561/SB 1308 and HB 2562/SB1309 – bills that seek to nullify birthright citizenship (guaranteed by the 14th amendment ) to children whose parents cannot prove their legal status.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/31/arizona-mexico

[southmost]

1. arizona's revival for its glory days of the indian wars

during the civil war and reconstruction periods

[barbiegeek]

2. Can someone explain all the hate in AZ?

[classysassy]

3. The snow birds and retired military

Two of the groups that bring their racist views to Arizona,the elected officials that come from outside of Arizona,in order to be elected they cater to the views of the snow(shit) birds and retired military.The Governor,both senators and the president of the Arizona state senate were all born out side of Arizona,all are republicans,a hateful group of racist.I've lived in Arizona for over 45 years and I've never seen so much hate ans discord.