Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Arizona Goes After Ethnic Studies

I think this might be the case of what might be a sensible bill that will again be attacked by ethnic groups.

The measure signed Tuesday 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.

The Tucson Unified School District program offers specialized courses in African-American, Mexican-American and Native-American studies that focus on history and literature and include information about the influence of a particular ethnic group.

For example, in the Mexican-American Studies program, an American history course explores the role of Hispanics in the Vietnam War, and a literature course emphasizes Latino authors.

So in effect this class will ban a White Supremacist course (if there was such a thing) that teaches that all other races are inferior. I wonder if this ban might grow in other states as well? I mean race and class hatred should not be taught in any way what-so-ever.

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