We have already said a few things here about how dumb Arizona is with its unreadable laws against all things Latino. But lost in the discussion of racial profiling is this other creepy law Jan Brewer signed regarding public school curricula. Arizona schools are now forbidden from having courses which “promote the overthrow [...]
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Other Bills Not Worth Reading
May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AS, Law and Justice, Politics
Tags: ACLU·after-school club·Arizona·education·ethnic studies·First Amendment·Immigration·Jan Brewer·Jim Crow·Old South·public education·race·racial bias·racial profiling·racism·segregation·students·Tom Horne·Tuscon·white people
Republicans and History
March 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · AR, Politics
Not content to lie about the present and the future, Republicans have stepped up efforts to rewrite history. In Texas, the right-wing elected officials charged with setting the state’s curriculum voted to ensure that Texas schoolchildren will learn, among other things, that the founders were Christian, there is no separation of church and state, Thomas [...]
Tags: Dick Armey·education·health care reform·history·McCarthy·Paul Broun·Republican idiocy·Republicans·right-wing hysteria·Steve King·Texas·Texas textbooks·The Great War of Yankee Aggression·Velvet Revolution