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Notes"It’s this anti-immigration legislation that they’re trying to push, where they would allow police officers to racially profile undocumented immigrants, especially people in the Mexican community. I think that’s horrendous. But what amazes me is that people support this law. I was watching the news, this woman in Arizona, looking at a camera, straight faced, she says, ‘Hey, we’re just trying to bring the country back to the way it used to be.’ The way it used to be? Lady, you’re in Arizona. It used to be Mexico."Hari Kondabolu (via janedoe225)
Funny, when Native American and Indigenous people say things like this, they’re considered dangerous and put on terrorist watch lists. When white people say this, they’re just fighting for good ol’ traditional values.
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Notes"Whites make up less than 60 percent of Arizona, which is apparently past the tipping point at which many of them become terrified at the prospect of losing their monopoly on power, including the power to hijack history to the service of one group: whites. One of the ways whites dominate other ethnic groups, is by denying that whites are an ethnicity, at all, but the normative form of human being. When Arizona’s legislature prohibits teaching classes that are, in the language of the new law, “designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group,” they mean classes designed for non-whites. Of course, schools in the United States have always tailored classes to one ethnic group: whites. History has always been a white narrative, and therefore by definition, a lie and a slander against the other ethnicities. Arizona wants its white lies back. It is now forbidden to teach that which causes “resentment toward a race or class of people.” Since it is impossible to teach the truth of genocide, slavery, aggressive war and conquest, racial discrimination and all the other central facts of America’s past and present, without arousing some degree of resentment among the victims, only falsified versions of history will pass legal muster in Arizona."Glen Ford . :: azspot:notemily ::
Took the words right out of my mouth.
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Notes"Meyers has been involved for the past two years in a qualitative research project that investigates the educational experiences of students whose families immigrate to the United States from Mexico. In particular, she concentrates on the ways in which these students adapt to education in the United States and she has focused specifically on these students’ relative success and motivation – and their decision as to whether to pursue further levels of education.
Her findings indicate that when students encounter curriculum that does not include cultural references or awareness of their backgrounds, they feel alienated by the education process, and they are less likely to complete high school and/or go on for professional or academic training."via curate, who notes: “[warning: brown literacy and critical thinking may lead to revolution]”
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Gimmie Some Feminism!: Dear Arizona- "Stop fucking up"
So, after the terrible immigration bill Arizona passed this year saying that anyone who was suspected to be an illegal immigrant was to be questioned and to have their “papers” on them. Not only does this law cause people to ask “What does an illegal immigrant look like” “meeexxiii…uhh I dunno :’(” it causes racial profiling.
But thats not what this post is about. Sigh, this post is about the NEW law that was signed by the governor Jan Brewer. This law “Will end ethnic studies in the state”. Why you might ask? Oh, because the classes ”promote resentment toward a race or class of people,” “are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group,” or “advocate ethnic solidarity instead of treating pupils as individuals.”
Sigh, yes, I’m serious.
In my opinion we should/should not need these classes. We should have these classes because ethnic groups have contributed so much to this country! And taking away these classes takes away their contributions. One of the people who support this bill says that the people that they are teaching about had to go through “depressing times” so we shouldn’t have to teach it. Ummm, no. Ever heard that phrase about learning from the past so you don’t repeat it?”
Another thing is that we do have ethnic studies even in the main classes. They are just European studies. It really pisses me off that you can take away a whole class of people and compact and water down their history so you can feel safe that I guess we wont “riot?” And I mean really… If anything taking away the history of a total group of people will make people more angry than it will understanding.
I do believe that we should have have a need for these classes. I think that EVERY ethnic group should be taught in the classroom. Yet no where in this bill does it say “we are going to take away segregated racial classes but we will try to do a better job at incorporating their culture with the masses.” They are simply taking away the classes and hoping no one notices that they arent getting the full education they need. (Hmph, funny how the only reason I had supporting the bill ended up me being against it )
An example would be that at my school we have one womens in art class. Unfortunately that class is only offered in spring… EVERY OTHER YEAR. So its like they are slowly taking away the class, but not incorporating women into the main art classes. I went through this semester of almost all modern art and I only know of about 4 women artists because no one is teaching it!
I also feel that these classes aren’t ”made” for the ethnic group. If anything I think people in school would want to learn more about a race that isn’t theirs. I think it would be a good way to learn history that they wouldn’t usually get, but to maybe think about these certain groups in a different way.
So I really hope Arizona gets its shit together. They already lost more than 90 million dollars due to businesses not wanting to be associated with them, and thats not even counting tourism. Sigh reasons why i’m embarrassed to be an American sometimes
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Notes Restless Christian: God loves AliensThere are over 100 [Bible versus about immigrants]. Here is a representative sampling:
You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 22.21)
You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 23.9)
You shall not strip your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien: I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19.10)
When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. (Leviticus 19.33)
The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19.34)
there shall be one law for the native and for the alien who resides among you. (Exodus 12.49) (also Leviticus 24.22). Oh, and Numbers 15.16))
When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the alien: I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 23.22)
The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants. (Leviticus 25.23)
As for the assembly, there shall be for both you and the resident alien a single statute, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you and the alien shall be alike before the Lord. (Numbers 15.15)
You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy labourers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of your towns. (Deuteronomy 24.14)
You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pledge. (Deuteronomy 24.17)
‘Cursed be anyone who deprives the alien, the orphan, and the widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’ (Deuteronomy 27.19)
Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. (Jeremiah 22.3)
do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another. (Zechariah 7.10)
Then I will draw near to you for judgement; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts. (Malachi 3.5)
You will note that there’s no passage in scripture which differentiates between “legal” and “illegal” immigrants (a term which has been created by the descendants of people who came to this country and took it over by violent oppression of those who were “here first”).
God has a singular and united opinion on how God’s people are supposed to treat aliens: as equals. The weakness of social status means that they should be protected, not exploited, by those who claim to follow God.
While i don’t consider myself a Christian, this is a very important element of the Arizona nonsense, and the immigration ‘issue’ in general that’s seemingly missing from mainstream discussions about it.
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clio.: whatwillsuffice: ... — Desmond Tutu: Arizona: The Wrong Answer (via...
“Abominations such as apartheid do not start with an entire population suddenly becoming inhumane. They start here. They start with generalizing unwanted characteristics across an entire segment of a population. They start with trying to solve a problem by asserting superior force over a population. They start with stripping people of rights and dignity - such as the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty - that you yourself enjoy. Not because it is right, but because you can. And because somehow, you think this is going to solve a problem. However, when you strip a man or a woman of their basic human rights, you strip them of their dignity in the eyes of their family and their community, and even in their own eyes. An immigrant who is charged with the crime of trespassing for simply being in a community without his papers on him is being told he is committing a crime by simply being. He or she feels degraded and feels they are of less worth than others of a different color skin. These are the seeds of resentment, hostilities and in extreme cases, conflict.”
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Posted: May 4, 2010 10:25 AM
“Hola Amigo!” The news just came to me through Foxy Grampa News that Dora the Explorer, the intrepid and beloved young South American girl, together with her cousin Diego, and her pet monkey Boots, were arrested in Phoenix yesterday by Sheriff Erich Hugo Spalter. The young girl from south of the border, dressed in her brightly colored fiesta clothes, was rounded up in a raid of an Hispanic neighborhood preparing for Cinco de Mayo festivities, her famous talking backpack confiscated and examined by the FBI. Within it was found a mysterious map which provided evidence of some possible illegal activity coded “Search for the Lost Treasure.”
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