ongoing racist bullshit in arizona thread

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/us/16immigration.html?_r=1&ref=us

Georgia, too.

if the GOP really hates trial lawyers so much they should stop handing them such easy work

lololol

http://jonathanturley.org/2011/09/05/arizona-to-charge-people-to-see-incarcerated-family-or-friends/

Not racist per se, but definitely.

oops, should read "but definitely bullshit"

are you fucking kidding me, that is monstrous. want to start a fund to pay for people who just want to visit their loved ones but don't have 25 bucks to spare. can't fucking believe what assholes people are.

like I mean I know ppl are assholes but even still they can come up with some "did you for sure know how big an asshole I was?" shit

didn't think they could top rotten bologna sandwiches in their pink underwear desert tent quarters, but here it is, topped

well tbf remember when jesus said "i was in prison, and you paid $25 and visited me"

it really feels like nothing could spike my sympathy for prisoners more than the succession of bs legislation, & the erosion of prisoner rights, over the last year

ongoing racist bullshit in arizona alabama thread

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/10/07/339067/alabama-illegal-to-live-undocumented/

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/water-image-268x300.jpg

At least one utility company in Alabama posted a sign informing its customers that a section of Alabama’s extreme anti-immigrant law prohibits them from providing water service to undocumented immigrants. According to the sign at Allgood Water Works in Blount County, Alabama, customers must have “an Alabama driver’s license or an Alabama picture ID card on file” by the date that the immigration law went into effect; otherwise, they risked losing their water service.

Sadly, the picture for Alabama’s immigrants is even grimmer than this sign suggests. Indeed, under one provision of the state’s immigration law, HB 56, it is a felony for an undocumented immigrant to even attempt to do business with Alabama’s state-run water agencies:

An alien not lawfully present in the United States shall not enter into or attempt to enter into a business transaction with the state or a political subdivision of the state and no person shall enter into a business transaction or attempt to enter into a business transaction on behalf of an alien not lawfully present in the United States. [...]

A violation of this section is a Class C felony.

In Alabama, Class C felonies are punishable by up to ten years in prison — meaning that undocumented people in Alabama can now be locked up for an entire decade if they attempt to take a bath in their own home.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/10/06/337764/sen-sessions-its-not-sad-immigrant-children-too-scared-to-go-to-school-its-sad-theyre-here-in-the-first-place/

Sen. Sessions: It’s Not Sad That Immigrant Children Are Too Scared To Go To School, It’s Sad They’re Even Here

By Marie Diamond on Oct 6, 2011 at 12:20 pm

As ThinkProgress has been reporting, the decision of a federal judge last week to allow Alabama’s harshest-in-the-nation immigration law to go into effect has had heartbreaking consequences. Hispanic families have been fleeing Alabama in droves and thousands of children have been too terrorized to show up for school. The law allows police to racially profile and pull over anyone they suspect might be in the country illegally, and blatantly violates children’s constitutional right to an education by forcing schools to check students’ immigration status before they can be enrolled.

But Republican lawmakers who supported the measure have been remarkably short on compassion for immigrant families that have been torn apart and other residents who have been deeply affected by their exodus. During an interview on conservative radio host Laura Ingraham’s show, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions (R) said Hispanic children being too afraid to go to school is merely the just consequence of immigrants’ unlawful decision to live in the state:

INGRAHAM: Do you think it’s bad all these Hispanic kids have disappeared from the schools? Do you think that’s a bad thing?

SESSIONS: All I would just say to you is that it’s a sad thing that we’ve allowed a situation to occur for decades that large numbers of people are in the country illegal and it’s going to have unpleasant, unfortunate consequences.

Sessions said he “couldn’t agree more” with Ingraham when she called this a “sob story” that simply proves that “enforcement of the law works!” It’s a good thing, Ingraham suggested, that immigrants are responding by leaving Alabama. “This is a rational response,” Sessions remarked, arguing that “one of the sad consequences of illegal immigration is families can be hurt in the process” — indicating that families brought the government’s harsh crackdown on themselves by seeking a better life here.

there's no "constitutional right to an education" btw, though there should be, but holy shit

oh there is in alabama apparently, nvm me

anyway denying people access to running water? who are paying for it anyway? what the fuck

this is fucking shameful, is what it is.

Oh wow, my old senator is still an absolute cunt? This is my surprised face. I am surprised.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/us/politics/judge-finds-manipulation-in-recall-vote-in-arizona.html

bizarre pullquote:

The judge also said Ms. Cortes’s case did not resemble the subterfuge displayed in “The Distinguished Gentleman,” a movie in which the actor Eddie Murphy, playing a character named Jeff Johnson, runs for Congress after an incumbent with the same name dies.

“Russell Pearce mentioned the Constitution six times tonight, and Jerry Lewis mentioned it zero,” said Craig Ray, a Pearce ally who was convinced that his candidate would stave off the challenge.

lollin'

, and noted that the case in fact bore little similarity to any of Murphy's films; whether comparing to the energetic, elastic performances of Murphy's earliest films, or to the measured, labored work demonstrated throughout his later multi-character ensemble work, she perceived the similarities as of "little relevance", the court heard in an hour-long PowerPoint presentation on Friday.

xp

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/11/17/371870/arizona-supreme-court-redistricting/

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/whos_afraid_of_the_tempest/singleton/

As part of the state-mandated termination of its ethnic studies program, the Tucson Unified School District released an initial list of books to be banned from its schools today. According to district spokeperson Cara Rene, the books “will be cleared from all classrooms, boxed up and sent to the Textbook Depository for storage.”

Facing a multimillion-dollar penalty in state funds, the governing board of Tucson’s largest school district officially ended the 13-year-old program on Tuesday in an attempt to come into compliance with the controversial state ban on the teaching of ethnic studies.

The list of removed books includes the 20-year-old textbook “Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years,” which features an essay by Tucson author Leslie Silko. Recipient of a Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award and a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, Silko has been an outspoken supporter of the ethnic studies program.

“By ordering teachers to remove ‘Rethinking Columbus,’ the Tucson school district has shown tremendous disrespect for teachers and students,” said the book’s editor Bill Bigelow. “This is a book that has sold over 300,000 copies and is used in school districts from Anchorage to Atlanta, and from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine. It offers teaching strategies and readings that teachers can use to help students think about the perspectives that are too often silenced in the traditional curriculum.”

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Other banned books include “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by famed Brazilian educator Paolo Freire and “Occupied America: A History of Chicanos” by Rodolfo Acuña, two books often singled out by Arizona state superintendent of public instruction John Huppenthal, who campaigned in 2010 on the promise to “stop la raza.” Huppenthal, who once lectured state educators that he based his own school principles for children on corporate management schemes of the Fortune 500, compared Mexican-American studies to Hitler Jugend indoctrination last fall.

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In a school district founded by a Mexican-American in which more than 60 percent of the students come from Mexican-American backgrounds, the administration also removed every textbook dealing with Mexican-American history, including “Chicano!: The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement” by Arturo Rosales, which features a biography of longtime Tucson educator Salomon Baldenegro. Other books removed from the school include “500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures,” by Elizabeth Martinez and the textbook “Critical Race Theory” by scholars Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic.

“The only other time a book of mine was banned was in 1986, when the apartheid government in South Africa banned ‘Strangers in Their Own Country,’ a curriculum I’d written that included a speech by then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela,” said Bigelow, who serves as curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools magazine, and co-directs the online Zinn Education Project. ”We know what the South African regime was afraid of. What is the Tucson school district afraid of?”

jesus fucking christ

Aaaah. Mazing.

who campaigned in 2010 on the promise to “stop la raza.”

This is like science-fiction world to me.

I read that sentence and was like "how more blatantly racist can you get?"

wow

shit makes me so angry i can't think straight.

arizona is just tilting at windmills

to me it's more pathetic and embarrassing than dangerous, tbh. you just want to pat some of those people on the head and say, "guys it's 2012. come on."

i'm sure it's all really cute if you're a latino in az or ms or ga

Another notable text removed from Tucson’s classrooms is Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest.” In a meeting this week, administrators informed Mexican-American studies teachers to stay away from any units where “race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes,” including the teaching of Shakespeare’s classic in Mexican-American literature courses.

jfc

(i thought i posted that hours ago, weird)

ugh

more and more I am beginning to think federalism is a bad idea

federalism is a smoke-screen for racist policy, basically

at least in America it historically has been

are they going to avoid discussing the holocaust too?

i know the superintendent of tucson unified :(

(i thought i posted that hours ago, weird)

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you did, on a lolz thread

or something

http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-news/2012/01/17/tucson-district-denies-ban-of-mexican-american-books/

kids, walk the fuck out of those classrooms right now

they'd probably be shot on the spot, and the cases their parents brought wouldn't even be heard by the supreme court, if it got that far

In a statement Tuesday, TUSD spokeswoman Cara Rene wrote that the books were not banned. They are still available to students through their school libraries, she wrote.

“The books… have been moved to the district storage facility because the classes have been suspended as per the ruling by Arizona Superintendent (of) Public Instruction John Huppenthal,” Rene wrote.

"you can still have them! In that storage room! The locked one, guarded by a leopard and the guy with the AK-47! Cmon!"

this is n/l even for arizona imo

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/04/418027/arizona-gop-lawmaker-wants-a-state-holiday-to-celebrate-white-people/?mobile=nc

i posted that after only reading the headline, rescind n/l

still n/l

“Good idea,” said one woman. “Like they have Cinco de Mayo for Mexicans. We need something for whites.”

http://www.thinkhero.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/2012-poster.jpg

"Good idea,” said one woman. “Like they have Cinco de Mayo for Mexicans. We need something for whites.”

― Frobisher (Viceroy), Monday, February 6, 2012 12:43 AM (47 minutes ago)

amazing

(it's called st. patrick's day, fwiw)