You can watch the video of this interview at video.foxnews.com or read the transcript below. It gives the truth behind the new Ethnic Studies Law. This interview with the AZ State Schools Superintendent is a real eye opener on what is happening in the Tuscon School District.
We learn from Horne that Tuscon Public Schools are are now segregating students for classes according to their ethnic background Hispanic, Black, Native American, Oriental. Then they are given history in a very slanted way especially for Hispanics. These students are now segregated in the Tuscon Public School system just like they were in earlier years in the south and this is progress?
More details came to light from David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner in his article Arizona didn’t ban ‘ethnic studies,’ it banned anti-American racial chauvanism
You may have heard that Arizona has banned “ethnic studies” in public school classrooms beginning in January 2011. Except that it’s not true. Here are the relevant excerpts from the law creating the ban:The problems being encountered with the Hispanic students after being in these classes is one of militarism where they refuse to listen to their teachers or principal. This program for Hispanics is being pushed by La Raza, the community organizing group of Hispanics including lawyers. What it teaches these students is a one side, slanted view about their heritage in the United States which in turn encourages them to become more militant.A school district or charter school in this state shall not include in its program of instruction any courses or classes that include any of the following:I suppose you could define these things as “ethnic studies,” and in that case, Arizona has banned them — and good for them. But assuming you don’t submit to this abuse of the English language, read on:1. Promote the overthrow of the United States government.
2. Promote resentment toward a race or class of people.
3. Are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group.
4. Advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of people as individuals.
This section shall not be construed to restrict or prohibit…(3.) Courses or classes that include the history of any ethnic group and that are open to all students, unless the course or class violates subsection A.So this is not an attempt to whitewash any history of oppression or keep discussions of ethnicity out of education. It’s an attempt to prevent students from becoming mush-heads who cannot read or write because their classroom time was taken up by brainwashing sessions by left-wing racial grievance-mongers.
(4) Courses or classes that include the discussion of controversial aspects of history.
(5) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to restrict or prohibit the instruction of the Holocaust, any other instance of genocide, or the historical oppression of a particular group of people based on ethnicity, race or class.
If you think that’s just a bogey-man, here’s an example. Surely there are better ways to teach children about the worst chapters in our nation’s history of race relations than to force-feed them the sort of leftist drivel ably described here by ABC News 9 in Tucson, and to incite them to participate in walk-outs and street protests:One of the textbooks that TUSD (Tucson Unified School District) uses in its ethnic studies program is Chicano!, by F. Arturo Rosales. The book teaches the history of racism and oppression in the United States directed against the Mexican, Mexican-American, and Hispanic populations. As the name implies, a large portion of the textbook is devoted to the Chicano movement that sprang up to fight social injustice and to push for civil rights. There are some similarities between the Chicano movement tactics that the book documents and the tactics some TUSD students have practicing recently.Children imitate what they learn in class. In 2007, the article notes, one class turned its back and raised the fist-salute when a Republican schools administrator came as a guest speaker. That’s what kids are learning in Tucson.
The cover of the book features graphic art of protesters with their fists in the air. Pages 248, 249 and 253 feature photographs of Chicano movement members with raised fists. The photograph on page 253 shows a student with a raised fist sitting in a classroom with other students; the text on that page makes the point that Chicano studies programs in the Southwest are “the most visible vestige” of the Chicano movement. A review of KGUN9 News footage over the past week shows many TUSD students raising their fists in the same fashion as those shown in the textbook.
Page 185 shows a picture of students walking out of school as part of a protest. Such student walkouts have been a major component of recent protests in Tucson against the ethnic studies restrictions and against Arizona’s controversial immigration crackdown.
And then there is the brown beret issue. Pages 193 and 199 of the textbook show pictures of demonstrators wearing brown berets. The book acknowledges a link to Che Guevara as an inspiration for the berets. Interestingly, the textbook does not explain who Guevara was. Guevara was a Marxist revolutionary leader and a major figure in the Cuba’s communist revolution, revered by some as an inspiration to the downtrodden, but reviled by others as a ruthless killer who bragged about personally shooting defectors.
The very idea of putting an entire textbook on Chicanoism into a curriculum for schoolchildren is already insane, but the content makes it much worse. Taxpayer money is going to condition children as professional agitators and to keep a long-moribund, irrelevant (especially to new immigrants) and divisive political movement alive.
Hearing this Superintendent talk is frankly frightening that this is going on today in America. No wonder he submitted this bill to do away with this program. This is a man who went to DC to hear Martin Luther King's speech who believes in civil rights and equal treatment for all, but he witnessed Tuscon Schools segregating their students not to teach American History but teach their own slanted ethnic history. No wonder those Hispanic Ethic Course teachers don't want other ethnic groups in their class because this would have been outed a long time ago.
What La Raza and other militant type Hispanics groups are doing is turning a bunch of students into people who are protesters against our way of life. La Raza is touted as a non-profit and non-partisan advocacy group in the United States, but they are far from that especially non-partisan as we lived in the San Antonio area and had a close up view of what their militant organization was about. These Hispanic students are taught capitalism is bad, our Government is bad, and it is up to them to make changes including overthrowing our Government. That explains the demonstrations and signs we have been seeing in Tuscon demonstrating against the Immigration Bill.
During the time that Napilatono was Governor, were these programs separating students for Hispanics to get a militant education was condoned? If so, that makes her as Secretary of Homeland Security even more frightening. No wonder she has not granted the request of AZ lawmakers to put National Guard on the border and build the fence. She is ignoring Senators McCain, Kyl, and the Sheriffs of counties along the border and their request for troops which means she is being backed by Obama and Holder. She has turned her back on American citizens in favor of illegals is what it looks like to us. She needs to resign as Secretary of Homeland Security and get someone in that position that believes the Security of the United States is the #1 issue we face.
As you read this transcript of the interview that Greta had with Superintendent Horne you are reminded at just how many times the media rushes to report on something like this and they are dead wrong. Obama, Holder, and Napilatono also need to be held accountable for their reckless remarks in light of the facts.
In Defense of Arizona's Ethnic Studies LawFriday, May 14, 2010
This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," May 13, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, it's pretty apparent some people are unglued in Arizona, not just about illegal immigration but also about another new state law that bans certain ethnic studies classes from being taught at public schools. Now, what exactly does this new law do?
Joining us live is Tom Horne, Arizona superintendent of public instruction. Tom, in anticipation of this interview, I took a chance to, you know, look up a little information about you. And I see you have some street cred in terms of your commitment to civil rights. This is not something new to you, is it.
TOM HORNE, ARIZONA SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT: No. In the summer of 1963, when I just graduated from high school, I went on the march on Washington, in which Martin Luther King gave his famous speech in which he said we should be judged by the quality of our character, rather than the color of our skin. And that has been among my deepest beliefs my entire life. And so this has made me opposed to dividing students by race.
In the Tucson school district -- this was what led me to introduce this legislation -- they divide the kids up. They've got Raza studies for the Latino kids. Raza means "the race" in Spanish. African-American studies for the African-American kids, Indian studies for the native American kids and Asian studies for the Asian kids. And they're dividing them up just like the old South.
And I believe that what's important about us is what we know, what we can do, what's our character as individuals, not what race we happen to have been born into. And the function of the public schools is to bring in kids from different backgrounds and teach them to treat each other as individuals. And the Tucson district is doing the opposite. They're teaching them to emphasize ethnic solidarity, what I call ethnic chauvinism. And I think that's exactly is the wrong thing to do in the public schools, and that's why I introduced this legislation to give myself the authority to put a stop to it.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, now, one of the other things I was curious about is whether this was something you just came up with because -- you know, just came up recently in connection with the new immigration law. And I have a June 11th, 2007, letter -- a 2007 letter -- in which you have an open letter to the citizens of Tucson in which you talk about your philosophy (INAUDIBLE) you say, I believe people are individuals and not exemplars of racial groups, and that you were -- at least, it seems you were distressed that Delores Juerta (ph) told the entire student body when she spoke there that Republicans hate Latinos.
Now, why do you think that this -- the topics or the classes that you seek to ban, or that have been banned -- why do you think they hurt minorities?
HORNE: Well, one of the things that happened was that when Delores Juerta said that, there was a lot of controversy and people told me I should stop schools from having controversial speakers. And I said No, kids learn from controversial speakers, but they need to hear both sides. So I brought down Margaret Garcia Dugan (ph), who's my deputy and who's running for my position now, as I'm running for attorney general. And I brought her down to give a speech because she grew up in an immigrant family and she's also a Republican. And she said, I'm a proud Latina and a proud Republican, and I don't hate myself. And she gave them a very high- quality speech about how they should be skeptical, they should avoid stereotypes.
In the middle of her speech, a group of students that are in the Raza studies program got up, put their fists in the air, turned their back to her. The principal asked them to sit down and listen, and they walked out on their own principal.
These kids I believe did not learn this rude behavior from home. They were taught at home to be polite. They learned this rude behavior from the Raza studies teachers. And it's dysfunctional for them because as adults, they need to learn to deal with disagreement in a civil way. If they think the way to deal with disagreement is by being rude or getting in people's face, they're going to be unsuccessful adults.
So I think this is mostly dysfunctional for the students that are in this Raza studies program being subject to a revolutionary curriculum, a curriculum that tells them that we took Arizona and other states from Mexico and it should go back to them, that tells them that the enemy is capitalism, that they're oppressed and they should be resentful.
These kids' parents and grandparents came to this country, most of them legally, because this is the land of opportunity, and they trust their children to our schools. And we need to teach these children that this is the land of opportunity, and if they work hard, they can achieve anything, and not teach them that they're oppressed.
VAN SUSTEREN: Tom, thank you. And just sort of my reflection -- seems like it's almost a question of tone and inspiration, versus trying to tear things down. It's, like, trying to figure out solutions where we can appreciate a diverse background and get to know each other and enriched from it, rather than try to destroy. But maybe that's my view of it.
HORNE: That's a bull's-eye. That's exactly right, Greta.
VAN SUSTEREN: Tom, thank you. And good luck, sir.
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