Wasn’t this a skit on Saturday Night live?
“According to NPR this week, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have begun offering illegal immigrants the chance to turn themselves in and in return will be allowed to negotiate their own deportation.
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“A group of Hispanic activists in Arizona filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Wednesday, alleging the lawman uses racial profiling in controversial sweeps to round up illegal immigrants.”
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Monday that the television talk show host wasn’t using a racist expression — “Oreo” — to describe Barack Obama during an episode that aired this past weekend, but was merely summing up what he believed to be the view of Rev. Jesse Jackson.
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From: edwatch.blogspot.com:
Calls are heating up to kill the Tucson Unified School District’s ethnic studies program - at the same time it becomes more likely that the district’s most controversial department could expand to reach more, and younger, students. Critics, from the state’s schools chief to lawmakers to conservative talk-show hosts and columnists, have singled out Mexican-American/Raza Studies in particular, saying it’s divisive and turns students into angry revolutionaries. But supporters say the program’s reach is too limited, given that it boosts student achievement by providing relevant and rigorous work to students all too often overlooked.
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The following article, the author discusses something very familiar to Latinos. It discusses the blatant and utter disregard for teaching students the “truth” about history. For decades we as Latinos have had to absorb the clearly White American version of history. We’ve been indoctrinated by their so called “Patriotism” and propaganda. Only to realize (most of us in College) that we were lied to. That the Alamo wasn’t a story of a heroic last stand, but an act of rebellion by immigrants who were allowed to live in what was then Mexico. That Davey Crockett was no folk hero, but a paid mercenary. These and many other “untruths” have been taught to students of all races and colors since the beginning of our country.
Though I agree with the writer, that curriculum in schools should be as non biased as is possible, I find it humorous that the very slanted curriculum that this author is now complaining abut, is slanted, not to exculpate the whites and their atrocities in this country, but in the other direction. That the curriculum he has a problem with no longer is attempting to teach our students that “White is Right”, but that perhaps, we as Latinos have been held back by the white man for decades. Perhaps we should bend the truth in the other direction for a while, if not for equalities sake, then for the possibility that our students will grow to realize that this country is not really all about “Freedom and justice for ALL”.
From: constitutionallyright.com
Immediately it was clear that the class was not a U.S. history course, which the state of Arizona requires for graduation. The class was similar to a sociology course one expects to see at a university.
Where history was missing from the course, it was filled by controversial and biased curriculum.
The basic theme of the curriculum was that Mexican-Americans were and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle and upper-class whites. In this narrative, whites are able to maintain their influence only if minorities are held down. Thus, social, political and economic events in America must be understood through this lens.
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By Bill Murray
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — The U.S., the world’s premier immigrant nation, has slipped into one of its periodic bouts of xenophobia, complete with single-issue presidential candidates and congressional funding for a high-tech fence along its 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) border with Mexico.
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Yale Daily News -Last fall, Benjamin Gonzalez ’09 was reading the Yale Record’s “Blue Book” — a parody of the Yale College course catalogue — when one description stopped him cold.
“Practical Applications of Spanish for WASPs” promised to teach students “how to interact with gardeners, housekeepers and other low-income workers” using phrases such as “Rosa, are you stealing change again?” Although the Record is a humor magazine, Gonzalez, the political action chair of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA, was not amused.
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Post Online - Friday’s Post column entitled “America’s party being crashed since the first settlers left England” was simplistic at best and prejudicial and racist/classist at worst. When Mr. Yonker jokingly refers to America being a “stable party state,” he is ignoring the plight of the Native Americans and other ethnic and socio-economic minorities who essentially built and continue to build the backbone of this country, with our “amber waves of grain and majestic mountains.” What is astonishing to me is that very early in his discourse, he admits that the first Europeans were essentially gate-crashers.
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