Raza studies gives rise to racial hostility
May 24th, 2008 by joe
Courtesy of reader and former Arizona resident Lynn is a pretty amazing story from former Tucson high school teacher John Ward, a Hispanic:
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.
This biased and sole paradigm justified teaching that our community police officers are an extension of the white power structure and that they are the strongmen used “to keep minorities in their ghettos.”
It justified telling the class that there are fewer Mexican-Americans in Tucson Magnet High School’s advanced placement courses because their “white teachers” do not believe they are capable and do not want them to get ahead.
It justified teaching that the Southwestern United States was taken from Mexicans because of the insatiable greed of the Yankee who acquired his values from the corrupted ethos of Western civilization.
It was taught that the Southwest is “Atzlan,” the ancient homeland of the Aztecs, and still rightfully belongs to their descendants - to all people of indigenous Mexican heritage.
From the perspective of America’s legal residents, the essence of the illegal alien problem here is not who they are, but what they do. As in, they don’t follow the rules the rest of us follow (and our government at every level gives them a pass).
Whether it’s turning residences into boarding houses, bringing commercial vehicles onto our neighborhood streets, stealing identities or running businesses out of homes, the bottom line is illegal migration is a problem because of the illegals’ unwillingness to assimilate.
If the majority of them simply worked, lived in the neighborhoods, and played by the same rules as everyone else, there would be no problem. But the sheer number of illegals caused such an impact that by 2006 many, many previously unaffected neighborhoods suddenly were beset by an inflow of people whose agenda clearly was not to “become Americans.” Conveniently, in May of that year, these same people marched in our streets by the thousands under foreign flags demanding their “rights.”
The pro-illegal activists learned from the enormously negative reaction those marches provoked from America’s legal residents, and since then no public events of nearly comparable size have taken place and not a lot of Mexican flags have been seen on the TV news. But as Mr. Ward relates, there has been a movement active for years now to indoctrinate young people of foreign descent, some of whom are likely citizens, against assimilation. And it isn’t just in the high schools.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin wrote about this Thursday.
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May 24th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Joe,
but don’t you get it?
1. YOU, as a white heterosexual, Christian male, are the ONLY racist.
2. The fact that you love your country, and want to see it enforce its own laws only proves that YOU are a racist.
3. That you have read history and know that a nation that looses control of its own borders soon ceases being a nation also proves that YOU are a racist.
4. That you realize that when someone who enters your house not through the front, but, through the basement window should be escorted off the premises proves
a. that YOU are a racist, because it is not your house because other racists like you stole it
b. that YOU are a racist because you actually have the never to put a front door on the house
Shame on you Joe.
May 24th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Look, I lived just across the Border from Mexico for several years when I lived in San Diego and I did not see a disproportionate number of criminals, gangs, or Bush’s “evil-doers” among either the legal or illegal Mexicans that I encountered.
It seems that every race of people has its nutty fringe, including xenophobes, so we needn’t be alarmed that Mexicans have LaRaza, MeChA (racist groups) and the MS13 drug gang.
The Negroes have the racist, NAACP and Urban League, along with the Crips and the Bloods drug gangs.
Certainly some members of these racist groups hate White people, but we would be wrong to conclude that all of their members take that position. Neither should we infer that members of an entire race are guilty of the same racism extolled by the NAACP, merely through guilt by race association.
As for our exploding wave of migrants, until we start voting the bums out of office who support illegal immigration, and punish those who hire them, this will only get worse.
While these folks are here, our civic associations and churches should all be working to provide courses in language and citizenship so that we can teach these new folks how to become good Americans.
The same rhetoric being used by the anti-migrant complainers today was said about their own Irish, Polish, German, Asian and African forefathers.
We can force our politicians to secure our borders, but we will still have a large population of new migrants here. The best approach is to get involved and teach these new folks good hygiene and how to become good, American citizens.
May 24th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Tyler B.
Those in the past complained that we had immigrants. Today we just want them to be legal. For this we are called racist.
In the post 9/11 age we know what happens when you allow someone to overstay their visa, or get in the country illegally. Al Aqaeda says they want to infiltrate the country to inflict more havoc.
This is a time of war, it is an asymmetrical war, which means we do not see front lines of millions of troops shooting at each other. This is a blessing and a curse. The blessing is we do not have the tens of thousands of causualties that come with that. The curse is the public begins to think ‘What war?’
What we have is a global guerrilla war and the results have a huge potential down side.
May 24th, 2008 at 10:23 am
JTB-
“Look, I lived just across the Border from Mexico for several years when I lived in San Diego and I did not see a disproportionate number of criminals, gangs, or Bush’s “evil-doers” among either the legal or illegal Mexicans that I encountered.”
It is common knowledge that many of the drugs in the US enter through our southern border with Mexico. Did you see any of this ?
Sounds like the point you are making is simply “I didn’t see it, so therefore it doesn’t exist”.
The problem with illegal immigration is not xenophobes. A big problem with illegal immigration is xenophiles.
It is the xenophiles that have positioned themselves as accessories after the fact, giving the illegals support and political shelter.
It is the xenophiles who fail to admit that we already have great difficulty dealing with the preexisting poverty in this country, and feel that welcoming further poverty across the border with open arms is the right thing to do.
It is the xenophiles who believe that the tax dollar pool is a bottom-less pit, and as such, public aid should be extended to those here illegally.
The xenophiles believe that “We The People”, are to be treated as second class citizens in our own country, in deference to those here illegally.
The xenophiles believe that our borders should be “come and go as you see fit”, exposing us to further crime, disease, and further overcrowding.
The xenophiles believe that welcoming those here illegally is secondary to our ecosystem. Simply put, some estimates put the number of illegals between 20 and 30 million. 20 million is roughly the equivalent of 2 1/2 New York Cities, 30 is roughly 3.75. This is a tremendous impact upon our environment, and the xenophiles wish to broaden this with their open borders policy.
May 24th, 2008 at 10:26 am
opps, brain out paced my fingers..
“The xenophiles believe that our ecosystem is secondary to welcoming those here illegally.”
That’s what I get for typing with my hair on fire..
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