Posted on 08/10/2010 8:53:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Arizona's new law that requires the police to ask people to show ID, which was just knocked out by a supremacist judge, may not be the most controversial Arizona law about illegal aliens. Gov. Jan Brewer signed another law this year that bans schools from teaching classes designed to promote solidarity among students of a particular ethnic group.
This law bans classes that "promote the overthrow of the United States government" or "promote resentment toward a race or class of people" because schools should treat all pupils as individual Americans. The issue arose because the Tucson School District offers courses in Mexican-American studies (known locally as Raza Studies) that focus on that particular group and its influence.
The law doesn't prohibit these classes so long as they are open to all students and don't promote ethnic resentment or solidarity. However, Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne, says the basic theme of the Mexican-American studies program is that Latino students "were and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle- and upper-class whites."
Among the goals listed for the Mexican-American Studies are "social justice" and "Latino Critical Race Pedagogy." Pictures of the classroom showed the walls decorated with "heroes," such as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Tucson also offers courses especially for African-American and Native-American students. These classes obviously divide the student population by race, a practice we thought was not supposed to be tolerated anymore.
Greta Van Susteren interviewed former Tucson high school teacher, John A. Ward, who was removed from teaching the class for Mexican Americans and reassigned because he questioned the curriculum. For raising concerns, Ward was called a racist. And since he is of Mexican heritage, Ward was also called a vendido (Spanish for sellout).
The state of Arizona requires students to take a course in American history in order to graduate, but Ward said the course was actually not about American history at all. He said it focused solely on the history of the Aztec people, which is the group to which Mexican-American activists ascribe their lineage.
Others who have looked at the books used in these courses say they refer to Americans as "Anglos" or "Euroamericans" rather than as "Americans." The books do not recognize the United States as a country, but claim Arizona is part of "Aztlan, Mexico" (even though the Aztecs never lived in what is now the United States).
The Mexican version of history is not the only foreign propaganda masquerading as American history in public school courses and textbooks. Five chapters promoting Islam were inserted in a world history textbook that is authorized and recommended for seventh-grade students by the state of California.
This world history textbook, called "History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond," gives the history and beliefs of Islam lengthy and favorable treatment far above and beyond what is given to every other religion, according to Stephen Schwartz in The Weekly Standard (Aug. 9, 2010).
The textbook uses what he calls a "sanitized vocabulary" to conceal Muslim practices that are criminal in the United States. These include forced marriage, forced divorce, marriage to children, polygamy and punishments imposed by Sharia law, such as public beheadings, amputations, cruel floggings and stonings.
Muhammad is the only person in this world history textbook who rates an entire chapter. Jesus gets only one sentence, and the contrast between the treatment of Islam and Christianity is shocking.
The book gives an entirely positive account of Muhammad's teachings, saying, for example, "He preached tolerance for Christians and Jews as fellow worshipers of the one true God." It says nothing about Jesus' teachings, but it does describe examples of Christian persecution of non-Christians.
This textbook tells students that the first year in the Muslim calendar is "the year of Muhammad's hijrah" (his escape from Mecca to Medina in the year 622). The book doesn't say from what event our Christian calendar dates, instead replacing A.D. with the trendy term "C.E." (Common Era).
William J. Bennetta, editor of The Textbook Letter, published a detailed analysis of this book's distortions, which he calls "pseudohistory." Bennetta documents how it was influenced by a Muslim pressure group, the Council on Islamic Education (CIE), which boasts of successfully "collaborating" with "K-12 publishers" to present a benign view of Islam to impressionable American schoolchildren.
Parents should check out how American history is taught, and NOT taught, in their children's schools. Is Islamic or Mexican propaganda masquerading as "American history"?
How will these poor children be properly prepared for their Marxist college professors?
“Pictures of the classroom showed the walls decorated with “heroes,” such as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara”.
...parents don’t know any of this. Most drop their kid off and leave the rest up to the school. Too busy makin’ a million to care. Most don’t know anything about these 2 boobs anyway.
Why should we pay for our own destruction!?
These fools are victims of themselves....!
The university is the lair and the Marxist bed bugs need to be fumigated. America is going to die from a million small bites. The bed bugs have already gotten into the Lincoln bedroom and they will only inspire more.
Indeed
The United States was very generous when we won against Mexico. Mexico started the war. We won and could've taken the entire country fair and square as the spoils of war.
I propose the Reconquisadoracion of Mexico.
We charge Mexico for the land that they have now. Sell all their valuable assets, as the Soviet Union did when they plundered Eastern Europe, charge Mexico for ALL the social services that we have squandered on illegal aliens including hospital visits.
Charge Mexico for all the lost wages and unemployment paid to real Americans over the decades because the illegals took their jobs and made everyone's pay in the Estados Unidos lower by having a much too large pool of labor.
Put all the illegal aliens into Belize and Guatemala because it is a very small border to protect and pay those countries a few billion dollars out of what we make on the sale of the assets of Mexico to take every citizen of Mexico into their country since legally ALL of Mexico should, by rights, belong to the USA.
* “Pictures of the classroom showed the walls decorated with “heroes,” such as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara”. *
What no PolPot?
No Stalin?
No Adolf?
No Benito?
For example, in chapter two, he says, "For as long as anyone could remember, the Mexicans had been raiding Navahos to steal their young children and make slaves of them, and for as long as anyone could remember the Navahos had been retaliating with raids against the Mexicans."
I think there was something on the order of 60,000 people in New Mexico in the 1850 census (they didn't try to count the Indians living in tribal settings), and probably most of those were Spanish-speaking, but in some cases their families came straight from Spain and were only nominally Mexican. Elsewhere the Spanish-speaking population of the Southwest was pretty meager.
The Aztecs' ancestors seem to have come from the Southwestern US (their language is related to Indian languages of that area) but their identity as Aztecs dates to the time they were settled in the area of what is now Mexico City. Most of the people in that area at the time of the Spanish Conquest were not Aztecs (Cortez won by enlisting the aid of the other Indians of that area who hated the Aztecs, who were sort of like the Baathists in Iraq during the Saddam Hussein era).
In short, of Mexicans immigrating to the US since the Mexican War, legally or illegally, the number whose ancestors lived in what is now the US is probably next to none.
Benito Juarez?
Benito Mussolini's father was an admirer of Benito Juarez--"Benito" is not a regular Italian given name.
Ping...
Privately, Mexicans will admit they are some of the most racist people on the planet. And the way they continue to treat the Indians of Chiapas is criminal. That's why I have to laugh when the Mexicans get all indignant over US laws against illegal aliens and how "racist" it is.
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