The Hicks File: Radical Arizona Educators Now in the Crosshairs
The nation’s ultra-liberals and leftists have made Arizona the focus of their anger. Why?
Let’s examine this.
Beyond advocating an ever-expanding nanny state, working to undermine the nation’s military, defending racial preferences, and maintaining Big Labor as the Democrats’ political machine, only two other issues are seen by leftists as issues worth waging nationwide battles over.
Immigration and indoctrination (through identity-based high school and college classes) are these two other causes. Arizona has just thrown down the gauntlet against these two pet causes of the left.
Arizona’s political leaders “called out” the left when SB 1070 was signed into law. Twenty days later they signed into law a bill outlawing race-specific ethnic studies classes.
As I’ve said, Arizona’s on a roll!
Bringing to life a tough anti-illegal immigration law was considered an “in-your-face” act by the nation’s open-border advocates. They immediately began screaming for a national boycott, claiming the law was “racist.”
Knee-jerk leftists everywhere genuflected.
In Highland Park, Illinois, the local high school is preventing its girls’ basketball team from traveling to Arizona to play in a basketball tournament. The assistant superintendent said the trip “would not be aligned” with the schools “core beliefs and values.”
These poor girls sold cookies for months to raise money for the trip, which was taken away at the last minute by some dim-bulb administrator. But a parent of one of the players said, “I’m not sure whose values and what values and what beliefs they’re talking about. We just want to go to Arizona to play basketball.”
In San Diego, the president of the school district, Richard Berrera, pushed through a resolution restricting employees from traveling to Arizona.
He told parents and students, presumably mostly Latino, that they shouldn’t travel to Arizona because they might be the targets of racial profiling or harassment.
But a long-time employee of the San Diego schools said, “They have no authority or jurisdiction on matters in another state and they certainly have no authority to give directions to parents.”
But things really got crazy in Los Angeles. The politically liberal Los Angeles City Council voted thirteen to one to ban official travel to Arizona and will order a review of all contracts the city has with Arizona.
But since many of the existing contracts are airport, port, and energy services that can’t legally be affected by the boycott, the city of L.A. just engaged in a silly, empty, and largely meaningless gesture to stroke their liberal political egos.
At the council meeting, a long line of activists trouped to the microphone to condemn Arizona and even the people of Arizona as racists, bigots, and Nazis.
Not to be outdone by the activists, council members compared Arizona to Nazi Germany and the beginnings of the Holocaust. Without an ounce of shame, Councilman Ed Reyes said: “As an American, I cannot go to Arizona today without a passport. If I came across an officer who’s having a bad day and feels that the picture on my ID is not me, I can be … deported, no questions asked. That is not American.”
Shouldn’t this man, an elected official in the nation’s second largest city, be embarrassed to display this kind of uninformed, over-the-top posturing?
But Reyes was no different than the other thirteen city council members who voted for the boycott. None of them have taken the time or have the intellectual honesty to actually read the Arizona law, nor have they attempted to understand national immigration law.
But apparently they don’t care — because through their vote they are thumbing their noses at the American people.
Just so I have this straight, Spain steals this land from the Navajo, Apache, Ute, Hopi, Zuni, Pima, Papagos, and Pueblo Indians, becomes Mexico, we steal it from Mexico, so it rightfully belongs to the Aztecs? Weren’t the Aztecs pretty much wiped out? Is there an Aztec reservation somewhere in Mexico I don’t know about?
Not only that, the Aztecs weren’t very nice people. Are we really sure that we would want them back? Perhaps we could persuade them to sacrifice a few liberal congressmen.
Actually, the area north of the Rio Grande never even belonged to the Aztecs to begin with. It belonged to the various Native American nations. The few times the Aztecs even tried to move north, they found out the hard way that the nearest NA nation to them was called “Apacheria”. They had no more success tangling with the Apache than anybody else did.
So, not only is the present-day “Aztlan’ movement” based on racist nonsense, it doesn’t even have a historical foundation. In many ways, it parallels the “Palestinian movement”- political radicalism based on a nasty combination of Nietzschean “racial superiority” doctrine, plus greed, ignorance, and xenophobia.
Let’s hope it doesn’t have the “lifespan”- or effects- of the Palestinian “brand”.
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Humorous cartoon related to immigration at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/politics/ showing Obama and Calderon body slamming America over the Arizona Immigration law.
The furthest north the Aztecs ever reached was well south of the US border.
The French socialist Jean-Francois Revel famously wrote…”Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself…” (I believe this originally appeared in his 1983 book, “How Democracies Perish.”) For the last four decades the American Left has been engaged, first quietly but now quite openly, in establishing Western/American guilt as the defining characteristic of our humanities and social sciences. I have always wanted to ask someone like Mr. Ward “Why?” What is the end-game here? Is the goal the dissolution of the U.S.? Is it to achieve sort of reparations or pay-back? Is it to reform the concept of citizenship on the basis of race and ethnicity rather than the 14th Amendment conception of the individual?
I realize that the rote answer these people always give is that “We should not be afraid to face our own moral failures and shortcomings.” But the people who say that have, in the same breath, absolved themselves of any of those shortcomings. By taking Mr. Ward’s position a person can assert a smug moral superiority at no cost to themselves. (Howard Zinn was a master of this.) By throwing the past “under the bus” the speaker gains what he believes is an unassailable moral high ground. Yet all of this of this is played out on an underlying assumption that the society built by our past “moral failures” will still be around for good progressives to continue lecturing to. Does Mr. Ward and those like him really want to live in “Aztlan” or some successor society resembling modern Mexico? I suspect not. I suspect that people like Mr. Ward and his academic confreres really want to continuing striking the pose of “courageous” critic and guilt-monger while freely consuming the goodies this society is nice enough to produce. Yet beginning in the mid-1960′s their point of view has spread inexorably from the elite universities to the state colleges to the high schools rather like thousands of borer worms attacking the hull of a huge wooden ship. How long before the combined action finally opens up the planking and starts the ship to sink?
Tom Horn, current state school superintendent now running for attorney general, has been fighting the Tuscon district on this for the past eight years. That this program has been entitled to teach this radical garbage – -exemplifies the deep divide between conservative (mostly) Maricopa co (which has about 75% of the entire states population) and Pima.
Tucson has always been bat-$%^& crazy liberal territory – and overwhelmingly Democrat (somewhat less than 20% of the total state pop). While Maricopa has pockets of liberals – most notably Tempe (University of AZ) & to a lesser degree Chandler in the south and Paradise Valley/Scottdale to the North – its overall demographics are majority blue collar middle & working class.
This renegade districts ‘ethnic studies’ is a bastard child of discrimination law suits brought in the late 70′s. Its a particularly galling waste of time and money considering this state consistantly has ranked around 48th or lower in overall performance since….
…the Supreme Court mandated Arizona – and every one else – is obligated to teach and care for anchor babies – children of illegals – back in the early 80′s.
The costs of illegal immigration Jan Brewer talks about didn’t just get excessive since the economy tanked in ’07-’08. Arizona has been eating it for a long time. Education is ground zero and now under a micorscope since the nessessary and difficult budget cuts. Hopefully axing this kind of program is just the beginning of a new day dawning.
Stay tuned to Telemundo for more melodrama and whinning.
Si Se Puede!
are you really an Arizona resident? I can’t imagine anyone who actually lives there thinking that “Tempe” is the home of the “University of Arizona.” that would be Arizona State, actually.
Just to clarify, Mr Ward was the whistleblower on this whole Mecha/Aztlan/Reconquista crapfest. He wasn’t actually teaching the class, he was supposed to rubber stamp the grades as an official certified teacher while some La Raza drone led the curriculum. Ward got Horne involved. Horne kept asking for the textbooks to make a judgement about class, but they refused to send him anything for like 6 months. Finally they sent the books and Horne worked with some legislators to draw up the law. I think the primary author is a latino, by the way. He was on Van Susteren one night.
The law doesn’t “outlaw all ethnic studies programs” like most of the headlines would have you believe. …just the malignant, anti-American ones. And it doesn’t really “Ban” them, it just promises to with-hold a school’s state funding by increasing amounts for as long as they offer a class like that. Personally, I think there is plenty of room to explore topics to “discover” your racial history in college. High schools have enough trouble with basic math and literacy.
There seems to be a lot of “grand standing” to appease the latino vote.
Maybe if Calderon looked at his own country and made it better than A gutter to live in, we in the USA would not have the problems of their people coming here, and our politicians, school leaders etc would not need to made a fool of themselves.
Frankly I think people should be stopped..I believe profiling is a good thing right now when lives are at stake. You don’t like it…tough…have ID with you and you will be on your way. The stupid excuses we hear, a soldier without id, a grandmother with no id..then get it, keep it on your person, I do. And i’m tired of the BS we are being fed on a daily basis as our country falls down around our ears. It is our fault as we have elected the fools and put up with it.
We are 100% behind AZ. The kids should be learning about the country they are living in NOW…Does anyone actually believe Mexico would put up with American kids demanding the crap we put up with from the latino kids???
Teach being an American (not a hyphenated-anything) again– this IS America, you know!
Whenever I go to cash a check I am required to show an ID.
If I get stopped for a traffic infraction, I have to show an ID
When I purchase a beer, I have to show ID
When I go to the polling booth in the Dem controlled Hawaii, I have to show my ID
Never once did I feel humiliated. What am I missing?
Here in OH, if you are driving, and are stopped by the police for anything (moving violation, etc.), you need to show;
ID
Driver’s license (counts as ID)
Registration of car (including on a rental)
Proof that if the car isn’t registered in your name, that you are legally entitled to be driving it
Proof of insurance
Lack of any of the above= you are in big trouble.
Cash a check? Two forms of ID, both with photos. (Driver’s license or state non-driver ID card plus credit card, debit card, etc.)
Since I don’t drink, I can’t say offhand what the ID procedure is to buy beer, but I’m betting it’s about the same.
I don’t see what the uproar is about people being required to show an ID in Arizona is. I do it every day here in the Buckeye State, just going about my own business.
Or is it an outcry from “progressives” who only want the laws to apply to people they don’t like?
(Yes, that was a rhetorical question, folks.)
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By the way, I just received a memo on my front door that I need to follow-up with the Census worker, because they were not happy with my response on the question concerning my ethnicity. Looks like they weren’t too happy with my “American”. Now can I be humiliated?
And they wonder why we don’t want them here and want them to get out. Since the Arizona law we have been “entertained” with one screaming “chicano” after another raising their fists, out to get the gringo. Hey. Show me the love! They are a threat to this nation and if they weren’t here the left would have one less group to punch into shape as more shock troops for their communist revolution. Immigration is the biggest problem this country faces. It’s time we said no to anyone who is not coming here to be an AMERICAN and that includes all the sinister types from the middle east as well. This is our home, our country. WE GET TO SAY WHO GETS TO LIVE HERE.
HA!!! so you think, YOU are ONLY in the majority and a citizen..not the minor vocal, left backed/sharpton/pelosi etc illegal. Ha Dream on citizen!!
these “latinos” really do believe that the american southwest belongs to mexico. they think we owe them financial support, healthcare, jobs as payback.
it would be great if indeed these dumb weird ethnic classes would be banned altogether, but then the unteachable stupid ones would have to learn something.
hell of a job, barry.
The liberals acquired political power by dividing people into groups and inventing and promoting grievances. Of course they’re angry that the liberal madras (public school) will no longer be funded by the taxpayer to teach their hate speech. They know that their constituencies won’t stay bought if they stop delivering the goodies. We’ve played their game for 50 years, it’s time to turn the tables.
The Arizonians might be in crosshairs, but the hairs are fuzzy and crooked, the lenses are cracked, the rifle is a rusty Berkeley-In-The-Sixties clunker, and it is handled by a commission of wobbly, wretched liberal dopeheads with solid perception problems (isn’t this a good definition of the liberals?) – so the best way to weather this extraordinary danger is to remain in the “crosshairs” and unperturbed continue the business, ’till the liberals, after their rifle explodes and kills a few of them, declare victory and leave to Lhassa (or to a Howl reading).
You can’t squeeze the spirits back in the bottle – Texas just passed an education law echoing Arizona’s, and I think that we’re looking at a snowballing phenomenon:
“Texas OKs school guidelines after ideological debate/ By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN -
Conservatives on Texas board vote on changes to “balance” curriculum
Texas textbook requirements often make it into those of other states
U.S. education secretary says there won’t be large “ripple effect”
more at CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/21/texas.textbook.vote/index.html?hpt=T3
If anyone thinks these moonbat Reconquista’s are just in the Southwest think again. I have friends in the Hispanic community who talk about how much the majority of Latino’s here in Milwaukee hate this country as it is and look forward to the day when they are enough of a majority to finally rid themselves of “the filthy gringo scum who stole our land and our wealth”.
They talk favorably about people like Che, Fidel, and Hugo Chavez and how with the help of Iran and other brown nations they will one day be able to rid the world of white people all together. It is the same ideology of “blue-eyed devils” spouted by Farrakhan. Some of them even say they would help bin Laden if he would just kill white people.
Folks, just like Jeremiah Wright, Farrakhan, Chavez, Ahmedinajad and so many others, many of our Hispanic neighbors are filled with the same racism and hatred they always accuse us of having and there are those who are plotting to do to us what the Nazi’s did to the Jews. We need to start educating ourselves to the threat.
Or one day maybe we will be facing what one friend told me at least one of the more serious people fantasized to her about: the day when he as a modern Aztec priest could cut the heart out of the screaming body of the last white man on earth.
Remember San Jacinto!
No Gringo’s I know will willingly walk into a gas chamber nor stand like some dumb peasant to have his heart cut out by an idiot with stone age ideals.
I won’t.
TriGreek,
I’m surprised I haven’t had another Census form forwarded or Census underling contact me. For I gave the SAME response as you.
As well as asking why Black folks from the Caribbean, recent Americans of European descent, Asians of a myriad of other countries weren’t included on their PC gobbly-gook options.
We are either Mexican or we are American, it seems lately (not to sound like a racist BUT) if your a white person you are the illegal immigrant. Do Most Mexican’s realize that they are 40 to 50% European? And would someone please inform the world about the Highland clearences and the English who shipped all the Unwilling, unwanted, unwashed and illiterate Scots, Irish and English to America much as the Mexican government is shipping the same kind of Mexican’s North for the same reason.
Frankly I like the Mexican people but lately the attitude seems as if the Latino’s are just asking for a fight.
I hate to say it but I beleive that’s what the Mexican’s are going to get before it’s all over.
Calderon comes and disses our country in our capitol and our rulers stand and applaud, then he wants the US to give up it’s right to bear arms. Why? because He knows that while Uncle Sam may not go apeshit one day and start ethnically cleansing the south west of non American’s the Texans, Arizonans and others can and will if pushed hard enough.
So Mexico and Mexican’s come up north and be rude, be hostile, be criminal and be assholes, you’ll get what you want for a while and some folks up here will then give you what you richly deserve, a bumpy ride back home and a locked border.
It’s not something I wish to see.
As a lifelong resident of Tucson, AZ and one-time TA for the Tucson Unified School District, I have a comprehensive, first-hand account of the “ethnic studies” program. Firstly, it is nothing short of a front organization for La Raza – the classes are propaganda intended to radicalize and indoctrinate; they are funded and operated by self-described “Chicano Supremicists” who glamourize “brown pride.” Keep in mind that these students are completely self-segregated, and operate under their own rules without outside interference. Their “history” coursework includes the teaching that the US Southwest is stolen (though everyone knows it was purchased outright. Not only do they teach that the land belongs to them (Of course, only pure-blooded natives have any right to that claim, but that doesn’t stop these people), they teach that the land is part of a mythical (read: imaginary) kingdom of Aztlan. They teach their students that symbols of opression include: The Statue of Liberty, The Constitution, and the Pledge of Allegiance. They claim their students “perform better” after entering the “ethnic studies program (which only teaches about “Chicano” history. However, the opposite is true – these people “perform” better because they are held to lower standards, and are passed without question, thusly creating an illusion that they “perform better.” A visit to their classroom will show that instead of learning algebra or calculus, they are playing cards and listening to music. Recently, these ethnic studies students were marched to an appearance by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in which the group publically decapitated an effigy of Arpaio. Violence and destruction has occured at nearly every event these people have shown up to demonstrate at.
These people are nothing short of little Nazi Youth wannabes
I don’t want to characterize all people of Hispanic descent as resentful, race-obsessed radicals, but I would advise those who want to become Americans to be loud and clear in their denunciations of the chicano militants. If Arizona should be any indication, the spirit of Andrew Jackson is waking up, and you don’t want to be thrust onto the Trail of Tears once he resolves that America is for Americans.
From the article: “I was once part of a radical black nationalist organization that helped bring about the black studies program at UCLA in 1968″
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Has anyone ever seen an a hiring ad for a ‘Black Studies’ graduate? Do you expect to ever see one for a ‘Chicano’ studies graduate? Those people are wasting their time and our money.
With the exception of California, where the early hidalgos, (read-spanish,)enslaved the indian tribes,and St. Johns in the White Mountains, the northward limit of Mexican permanent settlement was-well-Tucson.Southern Arizona was largely Apache and Yaquis, for whom the Mexican government paid in gold-for their scalps.
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