Arizona gov. signs bill targeting ethnic studies

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PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill targeting a school district's ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.

State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the bill for years, said he believes the Tucson school district's Mexican-American studies program teaches Latino students that they are oppressed by white people.

Public schools should not be encouraging students to resent a particular race, he said.

"It's just like the old South, and it's long past time that we prohibited it," Horne said.

Brewer's signature on the bill Tuesday comes less than a month after she signed the nation's toughest crackdown on illegal immigration — a move that ignited international backlash amid charges the measure would encourage racial profiling of Hispanics. The governor has said profiling will not be tolerated.

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.

Horne, a Republican running for attorney general, said the program promotes "ethnic chauvinism" and racial resentment toward whites while segregating students by race. He's been trying to restrict it ever since he learned that Hispanic civil rights activist Dolores Huerta told students in 2006 that "Republicans hate Latinos."

District officials said the program doesn't promote resentment, and they believe it would comply with the new law.

The measure doesn't prohibit classes that teach about the history of a particular ethnic group, as long as the course is open to all students and doesn't promote ethnic solidarity or resentment.

About 1,500 students at six high schools are enrolled in the Tucson district's program. Elementary and middle school students also are exposed to the ethnic studies curriculum. The district is 56 percent Hispanic, with nearly 31,000 Latino students.

Sean Arce, director of the district's Mexican-American Studies program, said last month that students perform better in school if they see in the curriculum people who look like them.

"It's a highly engaging program that we have, and it's unfortunate that the state Legislature would go so far as to censor these classes," he said.

Six UN human rights experts released a statement earlier Tuesday saying all people have the right to learn about their own cultural and linguistic heritage, they said.

Brewer spokesman Paul Senseman didn't directly address the UN criticism, but said Brewer supports the bill's goal.

"The governor believes ... public school students 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," Senseman said.

Arce could not immediately be reached after Brewer signed the bill late Tuesday.

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... 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.

That sounds awful!

[Darnell 8,478]

I dunno - if Dolores Huerta was the cause of all this - her 'peeps' should be castigating HER, and not the ppl who are having the REACTION to her.

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Arizona gov. signs bill targeting ethnic studies

bullsh!t thread title.

That sounds awful!

it is because it does exactly what is below.

Horne, a Republican running for attorney general, said the program promotes "ethnic chauvinism" and racial resentment toward whites while segregating students by race. He's been trying to restrict it ever since he learned that Hispanic civil rights activist Dolores Huerta told students in 2006 that "Republicans hate Latinos."

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it is because it does exactly what is below.

Because some Republican says so, right

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Good for Arizona.

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Because some Republican says so, right

no because common sense says: if you split classrooms up by race & teach a race based curriculum its going to happen.

[peejay 327]

I really wonder if the Left would find it appropriate to teach whites detailed history of Hispanic atrocities against whites? Does stoking this hatred in kids disguised as "ethnic studies" really have a place in our public schools? I say, NO.

Maybe we should teach white kids about the Alamo and the Meir prisoners in response? Do you think that to be appropriate to teach impressionable kids?

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Six UN human rights experts released a statement earlier Tuesday saying all people have the right to learn about their own cultural and linguistic heritage, they said.

there's six idiots that can suck my willie.

trouble is, since i'm an American, i'm paying their damned salaries.

in that case, i say they're fired.

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Sean Arce, director of the district's Mexican-American Studies program, said last month that students perform better in school if they see in the curriculum people who look like them.

That philosophy has done wonders for the academic acheivement of black students in this country. Self esteem is more important than learning about any contribution from any another ethnic group.

Mr. Arce needs a wake up call

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At least someone is working, not like others....

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Illegal latinos ARE oppressed by Americans. That is the plan. Lure them here, exploit them and pay them under minimum wage to increase corporate profits.

Democrats are all for it.

We should protect latinos from being exploited by imposing severe penalties on employers who employ illegal aliens for profit. When we end the exploitation, we end the problem and the class will teach how Americans prtect Latinos from oppression.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Illegal latinos ARE oppressed by Americans. That is the plan. Lure them here, exploit them and pay them under minimum wage to increase corporate profits.

Democrats are all for it.

We should protect latinos from being exploited by imposing severe penalties on employers who employ illegal aliens for profit. When we end the exploitation, we end the problem and the class will teach how Americans prtect Latinos from oppression.

Perhaps you should get out there and "do something" rather than repeating yourself ad infinitum

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When America finally does away with anything 'etnic' or 'non-ethnic' then we'll be all set.

As long as classes like this exist in public schools, as long as we have 'etnic' months or holiday, and as long as affirmative action is still in place, we will never be past our 'racist' history and other modern forms of segregation will continue to exist.