The Law and The Wall
President
Obama recently met with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to discuss the
illegal immigration situation faced by Arizona. She was emphatic that
the new law empowering law enforcement to demand proof of citizenship
was not engineered for racial profiling. She also insisted on the 1200
troops promised to beef up border patrol and completion of the security
wall at the border.
She said that the meeting was "cordial." I'll bet.
And the 3 R's
From Think Progress, April 30:
Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Arizona Department of Education "recently began telling school districts that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must be removed from classes for students still learning English":
Etnic Studies as Chauvanism:
[State Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom Horne] claimed the ethnic studies program encourages "ethnic chauvanism," promotes Latinos to rise up and create a new territory out of the southwestern region of the United States and tries to intimidate conservative teachers in the school system.
Unfortunately,
the "conservative teachers in the school system" may be the
chauvanists, literally trying to whitewash the school system while
teaching that ethnicity is not "American." The slant of Arizona's new
laws will definitely create a slope as slippery as snow on frozen rain:
people WILL be profiled, children WILL be dicriminated against and
taught only nationalism. Ugly racism WILL increase. Education WILL
suffer.
If Thomas Jefferson were here now, he would weep for the inequality of man in the southwest. Then again, his tears wouldn't matter - he's been demoted in Texas history.
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