La Raza minded teachers fight to overturn ban on Mexican American classes why the Mexico flag in pic?

[torran]

Tucson teachers fight to overturn ban on Mexican American classesAttorney general attacks anti-white 'brainwashing', but critics say he is pandering to xenophobic sentiment


Share11 Chris McGreal in Tucson guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 January 2011 19.56 GMT Article history
Activists protest against Arizona’s immigration law. The state has banned Mexican American studies. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America

Arizona is a state riddled with anti-government white militias, radio stations pumping out racist hate speech and politicians who wave guns as they denounce the oppressive rule of Washington. But Arizona's attorney general apparently believes the real threat to the stability of the US government is being fomented in a handful of high schools in a liberal corner of the desert state.

Tom Horne has declared classes in Mexican-American history and social studies in the city of Tucson illegal on the grounds that they are "propagandising and brainwashing" students into overthrowing the constitutional government and hating white people.

Horne has ordered schools to scrap the ethnic studies programmes under a law he wrote in his previous role as Arizona's education superintendent. He has not banned similar classes dealing with black or Native American history on the grounds that no one has complained about them.

Critics, including teachers of the classes he wants to scrap, accuse Horne of political opportunism by exploiting growing hostility to people of Hispanic origin in a state that recently passed controversial anti-immigrant legislation.

José Gonzalez, who lectures at a Tucson high school, is one of 11 teachers suing to prevent that ban from being enforced.

"If you were to look at the legacy of Tom Horne and his past eight years as the superintendent of instruction in Arizona, you will see that he has targeted Mexican-American people. He did away with bilingual education. He was very proud of that," said Gonzales. "He's a politician and, quite frankly, a very successful politician so he's pandering to these xenophobic sentiments here in Arizona and that's helping him get elected."

Horne began pushing to abolish Mexican-American studies after an incident in 2007 when a prominent trade unionist, Dolores Huerta, told high school students in Tucson that Republicans hate Latinos.

Horne, a Republican, sent an aide to the school to counter the message, only to have him met by a group of students who turned their backs and raised a fist.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/21/tucson-teachers-mexican-american-classes

[trucker]

Tucson teachers fight to overturn ban on Mexican American classesAttorney general attacks anti-white 'brainwashing', but critics say he is pandering to xenophobic sentiment


Share11 Chris McGreal in Tucson guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 January 2011 19.56 GMT Article history
Activists protest against Arizona’s immigration law. The state has banned Mexican American studies. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America

Arizona is a state riddled with anti-government white militias, radio stations pumping out racist hate speech and politicians who wave guns as they denounce the oppressive rule of Washington. But Arizona's attorney general apparently believes the real threat to the stability of the US government is being fomented in a handful of high schools in a liberal corner of the desert state.

Tom Horne has declared classes in Mexican-American history and social studies in the city of Tucson illegal on the grounds that they are "propagandising and brainwashing" students into overthrowing the constitutional government and hating white people.

Horne has ordered schools to scrap the ethnic studies programmes under a law he wrote in his previous role as Arizona's education superintendent. He has not banned similar classes dealing with black or Native American history on the grounds that no one has complained about them.

Critics, including teachers of the classes he wants to scrap, accuse Horne of political opportunism by exploiting growing hostility to people of Hispanic origin in a state that recently passed controversial anti-immigrant legislation.

José Gonzalez, who lectures at a Tucson high school, is one of 11 teachers suing to prevent that ban from being enforced.

"If you were to look at the legacy of Tom Horne and his past eight years as the superintendent of instruction in Arizona, you will see that he has targeted Mexican-American people. He did away with bilingual education. He was very proud of that," said Gonzales. "He's a politician and, quite frankly, a very successful politician so he's pandering to these xenophobic sentiments here in Arizona and that's helping him get elected."

Horne began pushing to abolish Mexican-American studies after an incident in 2007 when a prominent trade unionist, Dolores Huerta, told high school students in Tucson that Republicans hate Latinos.

Horne, a Republican, sent an aide to the school to counter the message, only to have him met by a group of students who turned their backs and raised a fist.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/21/tucson-teachers-mexican-american-classes

[unss94]

The Mexicans have too much pride. What is their to be proud of? Their academic performance stinks. Thier crime rate is astronomical. The boys join gangs and wind up in prison while the girls get pregnant and go on welfare. They need to spend more time studying math, reading, and English.

[delron72]

Not one mention of the teachers being "La Raza Minded"....LOL

Tucson teachers fight to overturn ban on Mexican American classes. Thanks for the report, I'll be emailing them to show my support.

[jocheved]

This statement says it all "Republicans hate Latinos". It's true!
I support the teachers.

[siwili]

We dont have American/German studies so why have mexican studies.

i dont know why they are bothered they dont even want to live there.

[ahanu]

Politicians always want to 'rewrite' history. Just because it's not 'convenient' for them to accept certain facts. They can teach the future students their one-sided views on history and they can eliminate text books and studies about Mexican-American history all they want, but that doesn't change the true facts about what (and has) really transpired throughout history.

[boynton35]

gee mexican american classes and a mexican flag, that would hardly be news
but that is not any official mexican flag, mexico is an atheist government and that flag has the madonna on it!

[mace]

In this case the flag serves to unite the people they represent behind a common cause/ideal.

When you go to any rally you see things that the attendants to that rally can identify with, that does not mean that they are against anything else, only that they have that one symbol in common. That said, until you have accepted them as United Statesians, they are still Mexicans. Remember that, you can't expect them to rally around the United Statesian flag when they haven't been accepted as United Statesians yet.

[lintun]

What's wrong with the flag? Americans fly their flags in other countries and no one seems to have a problem with that. Believe it or not, not every person immigrating to the US wants to be American or loves the US. The Mexican students are allowed to be proud of their heritage.

Buzzard