White Supremacy in Education: First Texas, now Arizona.....

[marmar]

Posted by Chauncey DeVega at 10:59 am
April 30, 2010 4

Eurocentrism Reigns Supreme: Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies


States that the Legislature finds and declares that public school pupils should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people.

Provisions

States that the Legislature finds and declares that public school pupils should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people.

Prohibits a school district or charter school from including in its program of instruction any courses or classes that:

Promote the overthrow of the United States government.

Promote resentment toward a race or class of people.

Are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group.

Advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.

States that if the SBE determines that a school district or charter school is offering a course that violates this act, the SBE must direct the Superintendent of Public Instruction (Superintendent) to notify the school district or charter school that it is in violation. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/04/30/eurocentrism-reigns-supreme-arizons-bans-ethnic-studies/

[Posteritatis]

1. No anthropology courses for Arizona!

Ugh.

[immoderate]

2. No History, either.

How would you approach slavery?

It looks like it's going to be hard to teach economics as well. Is logic allowed? :shrug:

--imm

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Have I mentioned "FUCK ARIZONA" yet?

[dkf]

4. I don't see why any class would be designed to be attended by a particular race.

Why can't a white person be in an African American studies class? Or a man enroll in a womens studies Class?

And I don't think a class should promote solidarity to a subset of the public.

If classes do exist with the expectation that only race will attend I do find that appalling. I swear Hawaiian studies was a pretty popular class at the local university. And our QB of the football team took Samoan so he could communicate with his linemen.

Promoting understanding is great. It should not be aimed to attract only one group.

[Xicano]

5. So this would be unlawful to show in an American history class?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAYaumTLmhI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA8_tFNy-XE


Teaching about slavery would be unlawful? Teaching about the atrocities of terrorists groups such as the KKK would be unlawful? Teaching about the civil rights struggle of MLK would be unlawful? Teaching about Japanese concentration "internment" camps and Native "reservations" would be unlawful? And the list goes on and on and on.

So what we have here is an example of state sponsored racism and denial of history. That's what this is all about and how most unfortunate. A shining example of "freedom"?

[Xicano]

6. What about the Decleration of Independence being taught in school?

Provisions

States that the Legislature finds and declares that public school pupils should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people.

Prohibits a school district or charter school from including in its program of instruction any courses or classes that:

Promote the overthrow of the United States government.

Promote resentment toward a race or class of people.

Are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group.

Advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Are these people nuts? Are they seriously saying its unlawful to teach the Decleration of Independents to our children?

[political_Dem]

7. It seems that they will be rearing one of the most insular and bigoted generation

this side of the Mason-Dixon line. If we had problems in the sixties with folks who openly vented their racism without any moral checks in place, just wait until these kids end up getting in power positions not only within the state but across the country.

The RNC seriously wants an idiocracy so that their power grab will be easy and painless. And once it happens, no one will protest the crap they pass.