Wow… Arizona Passes Bill Banning Radical Ethnic Studies Programs
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, April 30, 2010, 5:58 AM
Arizona is looking more and more appealing every day. If they don’t watch it all of those America-hating leftists are going to follow the illegal immigrants and flee the Grand Canyon State. That would be horrible.
The Arizona legislature just passed a bill that will ban radical ethnic studies programs.
FOX News reported, via Free Republic:
After making national headlines for a new law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona Legislature sent Gov. Jan Brewer a bill Thursday that would ban ethnic studies programs in the state that critics say currently advocate separatism and racial preferences.
After making national headlines for a new law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona Legislature passed a bill Thursday that would ban ethnic studies programs in the state that critics say currently advocate separatism and racial preferences.
The bill, which passed 32-26 in the state House, had been approved by the Senate a day earlier. It now goes to Gov. Jan Brewer for her signature.
The new bill would make it illegal for a school district to teach any courses that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or “advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.”
The bill stipulates that courses can continue to be taught for Native American pupils in compliance with federal law and does not prohibit English as a second language classes. It also does not prohibit the teaching of the Holocaust or other cases of genocide.
Schools that fail to abide by the law would have state funds withheld.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 86 Comments
Julie commented:
I am seriously considering moving to AZ.
olm commented:
This is way too funny.
AZ has just become my destination for future residence.
This could turn out where AZ is the only state in the union to figure out how to beat the recession.
Opus #6 commented:
Time for a BUYcott.
Mike commented:
More please! For those of us living in repressive liberal states, AZ is fast becoming the shining city on the hill.
Valerie commented:
“The new bill would make it illegal for a school district to teach any courses that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or “advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.” ”
This is nothing less than banning the teaching of race prejudice in public schools. Too bad Illinois and Baltimore can’t do that for churches.
bitterclinger commented:
Arizonans, keep it up! Don’t back down. I’m so proud you’re leading the way!
zmdavid commented:
Does this cover universities? Women’s studies programs need to go too. Basically anything with “studies” in it should be suspect.
Auntie Em commented:
That is awesome!! I am thinking of changing my 4-yearly vacations from Florida to AZ
anonymous commented:
Maybe I should move to Arizona.
Andreas K. commented:
I still wonder what those “Native American” pupils are supposed to be.
The mixture of the second, third and fourth immigration wave into the American continent. That’s how things are. The only “Native Americans”, or “First People”, have been wiped out by nature a long time ago. Clovis Culture. Nature said “up yours” and destroyed them.
Today’s “Native Americans” have roots in Asia, South Pacific AND Europe, cause that’s where their ancestors came from.
Native American, to me, is every man and woman born over there.
This ethnicity-based, politically correct Newspeak is nothing else but stupid and fascist, catering to racist dreams of radicals.
Reaganite Republican commented:
I’ve been looking at houses in the Phoenix area for a year… feeling better about the idea by the day
John Gargano commented:
I believe when immirgants come to America and take the fibers of their greatness and weave them into the cloth that is America we all benefit. I welcome such people.
When defiant people, of any background, from any country, come to America and wave flags of their homeland, talk about taking back some part of America or taking over America – this is a sad manefestation of people who’s actions are based upon their deficiencies vs their proficiencies.
Thank Goid someone has finally figured out that that catering to these defiant, deficient people is wrong – THANK YOU!
unbelievable! commented:
Is Jan Brewer as awesome as she seems.
Tregonsee commented:
When I retired a few years ago, I agonized about whether to move to AZ. At the time, property values were insane, and there were other practical issues. Today, I am seriously revisiting that decision.
Treg
Future Arizonan commented:
Let’s not forget that AZ is an open-carry state, and Brewer just signed a law allowing no-permit concealed carry for anyone over 21 with no criminal history. Arizona, here I come!!
LL commented:
The new bill would make it illegal for a school district to teach any courses that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or “advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.”
That’s just so UN-AMERICAN! How do we raise the new generation of progressives without that sort of instruction?
ProLifer commented:
If you are Hispanic, love America and truly desire to become part of her (i.e., assimilate) — like so many legal immigrants before you — you will discover us to be a most generous people. The American people are so much better than governments would have you believe — including our own.
But if you are Hispanic, hate America and advocate separatism (i.e., refuse to assimilate) — like so many illegal immigrants/invaders before you — you will discover that there are limits to our generosity — and patience. And before you misbehave… take a good look at your own country’s immigration laws!
Ashen commented:
Proud Arizona native here. WOOT WOOT!!!!
jerryl commented:
hmmm well im a truck driver so i can work anywhere soo AZ is my first choice to live and have to find out what produts are made in AZ so i can buy them
Ashen commented:
To anyone considering moving or vacationing here.
COME ON DOWN!! We have awesome weather about 8 out of 12 months. Winter is so mild in the valley. Basically it’s cold on Christmas Day through New Year’s. Hot as hell in the summer, by August you’ll be melting but the rest of the year is great. The landscape is very diverse. Flat, sparse desert in the south, and pine trees, snow, and beautiful country in the north. If you’re curious, pick up an Arizona Highways magazine, (no I don’t work for them in any capacity), and take a look for yourself. It’s a wonderful state with a growing culinary selection, (it used to be Mexican food was the only other option to meat an potatoes). We have great restaurants of all flavors, solid NBA, NFL, NHL, MBL teams. Plenty of nightlife and clean, wide freeways. We love to have visitors. If you are a hard worker, you will definately find a place in our beautiful state to call home. For the people that think we are a bunch of racists, go jump in the lake. We have a rich heritage of Mexican, Asian, and European cultures but somehow, we make it work because we love this state. We are united not by color or background, but by the simple wish to enjoy the fruits of our labors and live in a society that abides by the rule of law. Please come, and help us make this state even better.
Corporal Vere commented:
Arizona here I come!
James Walleye commented:
Sorry to say, I’m from Missouri (only in the context of this thread) and “represented by Claire McCaskill-D-Idiot”…this is the “Show Me State”..Hah!!.Named after Missourians who mined during the Comstock Lode (Silver MIne Discovery) in Colorado in 1878 who didn’t know how to handle a pick..as in..”show me…show me” from other savient miners..McCaskill embarasses all Missourians..she’s a, my words, a pommie soph in a poodle skirt in broughm shoes with tassesled funnels in her hands, about 15 yrs old ..now with …Carl Levin type glasses on the end of her nose, just as sycophantic and so, so, yesterday..only “elected” ’cause Acorn and etc (you know who) “brought out the vote holding the booths later from the precincts (you know who) vs Jim Talent a very decent Republican. Lesaaiz le bonntomps rollez ’til November 2010
MainStreet commented:
Haven’t seen any negatives yet. I believe that the only way to stop the progressive movement is to stop them in the schools and universities. This bill is a start. Hope this alien virus is catching and invades other states’ boundaries.
Stuart commented:
Bravo Arizona. Your neighbor to the immediate north is proud of you.
Mrs. X commented:
I always thought Arizona is where I would go if I ever left my home state. Now I have another reason. Keep it up, AZ!
Battlecry commented:
This is aimed at Tucson Unified School District
(TUSD). TUSD has been teaching promising Hispanic kids indoctrination from LA RAZA provided materials. There have been Hispanic teachers who have quit in disgust, yet TUSD has continued on. The AZ Superintendent of Schools has had a running battle for over 2 years with these PC lib racists. TUSD is Arizona’s largest school district.
wanumba commented:
Great news. But, about AZ schools – we moved here two years ago and the schools are as piss-poor as they were forty years ago. BUT, Phoenix has more private school options than the hinterlands. If that isn’t a problem, it’s a spectacularly beautiful state, desert to high plateau, to forest mountain living. Just pick the kind of weather one likes and there’s a town that has it.
Made a comment about this the other day to someone, to put the “racist” state hysteria in perspective : the local after work basketball tournament league is by order of % of players, Native Indian,White and Black, and plays at one of the local Reservation gyms. Each team is very mixed, plus ages from 18 to -looks like 60 – and those 60 year olds know how to “swoosh” it from mid-court. Families, girlfriends, kids, all sitting around watching, socializing. This in serious “redneckville.” The place to be is Monday and Wednesdays playing basketball at the Reservation.
In contrast, nearby, at the Parks and Rec field, is the after work soccer league. 100% Hispanic, Mexican. There are zero locals playing on ANY of the teams that show up.
While one of our family, and we’re pretty new, has already been invited to play basketball, we see no way anyone even wandering by the soccer field would be invited to join in – only Hispanics. It’s noticeable in its closedness, and we’ve been observing the dynamics of it for a while now, since they play right after our kids’ school team finishes. Everyone we’ve seen is very polite and innocuous, so that’s not the problem, they just can’t be open. They’re ilegal.
Aside from language, which isn’t such a bigga deal when playing a game – teams will not care about not speaking the lingo if one can PLAY to win – if there’s an extremely mixed all volunteer adult basketball league right down the street, it’s NOT “race” that’s the issue, the big divider here is ILLEGALITY.
Illegals want to do all the normal stuff, like after work sports leagues, but because so many are illegal, they cannot mix with the local community as legals can, for fear of being exposed to the law enforcement. So, they operate in a closed social circuit.
It’s one of the sad results of illegality, unable to truly integrate into the local community. Legal immigrants have no fear, they have done the necessary and can be easily accepted into the local communities. The Left has encouraged dodging the system, but the dodge of immigration law actually puts illegals into a corner they can’t get out of, socially and legally.
Those who promoted this have not done illegals any good deed whatsoever.
ahem commented:
FYI: Chicagoboyz has a superb article about The Divisive Left. Highly recommended:
“Leftists induce everyone to see themselves as personally continually under threat from their fellow citizens. They induce everyone to believe that everyone else in society will cheat them or otherwise treat them unfairly. They induce everyone to think of themselves as individuals and groups constantly under siege and attack by virtually everyone else in America.
For an example of this one need look no further than the President’s own rhetoric. Every time he speaks about almost any issue, he pushes the implicit view that one group of Americans is cheating or attacking another group and that only people like himself can save them.”
CommieBlaster commented:
Communist School Indoctrination is wide-spread and growing fast under Obama:
http://www.commieblaster.com/news/school_indoctrination.html
Peter Warner commented:
Can someone explain this wording:
‘The bill stipulates … It also does not prohibit the teaching of the Holocaust or other cases of genocide.’
If the bill ‘doesn’t prohibit’ XWZ, doesn’t that indicate that it just doesn’t say any thing about XYZ? So why would the reporter even mention it?
For example, suppose you read: ‘Governor Jones of Rhode Island signed an education bill. It doesn’t prohibit visitors from Hawaii from shopping at Walmart on Fridays’. That would indicate the reporter had something on his mind, wouldn’t it?
Confused, Peter Warner.
Valerie commented:
Peter,
That language in the bill is typical where the writers of the law already know that somebody is going to try to willfully misinterpret the law.
It is much like the portions of the new Arizona immigration law that recite that a driver’s license is presumed proof of legal residence and that reasonable suspicion cannot be based solely on a person’s appearance. It so happens that both of these latter provisions are already part of the applicable case law: they were included precisely because the drafters knew these objections would be raised.
Stan25 commented:
This will drive the liberals totally bonkers. Arizona is really sticking it to the progressive agenda. About damn too. Oh forgot about the conceal carry law that states that citizens of Arizona don’t have to have a permit to CC
Oscar commented:
OK, these people are making it hard for me to decide on where to retire. (Even though that’s still about 30 years away — assuming I live long enough).
Texas, Arizona, Texas, Arizona, Texas, Alaska (nah, too cold), Texas, Arizona….
Mats commented:
All the way from Portugal:
GOD BLESS ARIZONA and keep resisting far-leftism.
They all whine and scream, but when they see that you are acting within the limits of yourGod given Constitution, they go to other states like Cali.
Arizona is making me proud to belong to western civilization.
Mats commented:
To think that John McRino wanted to “cross the aisle” when all you need to do to gain votes in the USA is stick to solid , coherent, God-fearing, Constitution-abiding conservatism.
Doggy commented:
One more reason to visit the Grand Canyon this summer, folks!
TrickyDick commented:
Does that mean they can ban that stupid “Black History Month” crap. If so, I wish my state would pass a law like that.
Carl Scott commented:
Well, these precincts seem a bit too wingy and self-congradulatory for me (fr example, I support Heller, and concealed permit, but find open carry and enthusiasm for it repulsive), but Battlecry, I thank you for providing the key piece of info. And Wanumba, great and insightful report.
garlicnosedho commented:
Hallelujah! Women’s studies (note, I am female), black studies, and anything Nation of Aztlan or Brown Berets next!
Enough with the ethno-racial-gender separatism and divisiveness!
Marsh commented:
Dude. Arizona is like my favorite state now! I’ve long been extremely uncomfortable with all these identity obsessed advocacy groups. Their central purpose is to basically advocate for tribal-like seperation and preferential treatment over everyone else. And I’ve long suspected that they were really just thinly guised front groups for bigoted ethnic nationalist groups. But I knew as a white person I could never say something so blatantly obvious without being lynched by the politically correct left.
Opaobie commented:
Texas, you’re on deck….batter up.
bg commented:
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God helps those who help themselves!!
God bless Arizona, they are helping themselves!!
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chuck in st paul commented:
We here in the Peoples Republic of Minnesota are shocked! Shocked I tell you! [actually I expect at least half the population here really is]
Why if we did that, half our Liberal Arts degrees would go away. Oh my. What would the children study then? (How about something actually useful like electronics or medicine…?? There’s a thought for ya.)
U of M is a nest of useless socialist one worlders.
Go Arizona, go!
Dennis commented:
Funny, the liberals call us racist, but they are the ones that hurt when we ban the public funding of teaching “ethnic solidarity” and “resentment of a certain race”.
Ladue Pundit commented:
These [fill in blank] “studies” courses are nothing more than supremacist ideology and the elevation of a group that usually derides others on its ascent.
They are nothing more than ax grinding for a semester credit. The people who major in them and chair their phony departments are always kooks.
Elizabeth Seymour commented:
La Raza Studies
http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?doctype_code=Article&doc_id=323
Who is responsible for the 1965 Immigration Act?
H. Morfin commented:
Thank god, bigotry is alive in America.
Jenny commented:
The LaRaza studies seem to be related to Mexican/Chicano studies. In any event, the Hispanic culture is not limited to Mexican culture and other countries have history that is completely different, so in my view, the LaRaza studies are bigoted since they only depict one history.
Brian commented:
Jan Brewer for president.
Peter Warner commented:
Thank you, Valerie. That explains it clearly.
Best regards, Peter Warner.
Fuzzy commented:
Too bad AZ has state income taxes, or I’d move there. As is I’m thinking maybe Texas.
bg commented:
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H. Morfin @ 9:00 pm #49
bigotry huh..
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