Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authorsI guess that the Tucson school district doesn’t want the students to learn the we practiced genocide, that we stole their land and forced them in to reservations. I guess we don’t want them to learn that in Arizona the Spanish were there before the European came and we took their land in battle.
The Narcosphere
Posted by Brenda Norrell
January 14, 2012
TUCSON -- Outrage was the response to the news that Tucson schools has banned books, including "Rethinking Columbus," with an essay by award-winning Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko, who lives in Tucson, and works by Buffy Sainte Marie, Winona LaDuke, Leonard Peltier and Rigoberta Menchu.
The decision to ban books follows the 4 to 1 vote on Tuesday by the Tucson Unified School District board to succumb to the State of Arizona, and forbid Mexican American Studies, rather than fight the state decision.
Students said the banned books were seized from their classrooms and out of their hands, after Tucson schools banned Mexican American Studies, including a book of photos of Mexico. Crying, students said it was like Nazi Germany, and they were unable to sleep since it happened.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Stealing A Heritage
I thought we had gotten beyond the eighteen hundreds where we forced the Native Americans to become Christians. But guess I was wrong, we are still taking away their heritage…
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Another reason to boycott Arizona.
ReplyDeleteHow could the "Spanish be there before the European"? That is an oxymoron.
ReplyDeleteAlex - You are right, I should have said the "Spanish be there before the before the English"
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