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Arizona Outlaws Ethnic Studies

Because they're racist against white people

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted May 12, 2010 7:46 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Well, this should quiet down all the racial tension in Arizona: Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill designed to outlaw the Tucson school district's ethnic studies program—just hours after UN human rights experts issued a report condemning that very law. The measure is the brainchild of Arizona schools chief Tom Horne, who believes that the Mexican-American studies classes taught in Tucson high schools teach Latino students to resent white people.

“It's just like the old South, and it's long past time we prohibited it,” Horne, a Republican running for Attorney General, tells the AP. He's pushed for the law since 2006, when he heard that a Hispanic activist had told a class that “Republicans hate Latinos.” The law bans any classes designed to promote solidarity among a particular ethnic group. Tucson's schools offer Mexican-American, African-American and Native-American studies programs, but district officials say they think all are in compliance with the law.

In this Monday, April 20, 2009 file photo, Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer listens to a question as she testifies during a Senate meeting on violence along the US-Mexico border.
In this Monday, April 20, 2009 file photo, Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer listens to a question as she testifies during a Senate meeting on violence along the US-Mexico border.   (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
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Cat-Lover
May 13, 2010 2:36 PM CDT
Why couldn't a my state governor have outlawed math when I was in school?
Rocket448
May 13, 2010 8:15 AM CDT
I'm interested and intrigued yet I don't think I know nearly enough about this new development. This is a very good addition to the grid, Newser.
Eleutherius
May 13, 2010 8:04 AM CDT
I live in AZ... I'm definitely against the immigration law, but I'm not so sure about this. I'm probably still against it, but by a much narrower margin. I remember reading about some of the classes. There was a lot of pseudosophisticated leftist indoctrination going on.
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Arizona • Latinos • Tucson, Arizona • Mexican-Americans • Jan Brewer • ethnicity • Tom Horne • ethnic studies

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