Arizona SUCKS

Well I take that title back, they don't suck, they BLOW. I have never been to the state of Arizona, but with their recent legislations I will definitely be as far as possible. I say this because the next thing on their agenda is probably the legalization of Jim Cow again. Who knows they may even decide to legalize slavery. Well, this is one darky that won't be caught up in that!

Ok, snap back to reality. Arizona does really bite though. I guess I should address the reasons why I feel this way. Well to start off, have you ever seen the weather? I like many other busy Americans spend time watching the weather channel (Not really but it does help me sleep sometimes). And it's about as hot as a Witch's Tit during the Salem Trials (There were actually no burnings during the Trials though). But I digress there are some real serious issues in Arizona that I need to give my take on.

Like the Bible says the last shall be first so to will I deal with the issues. The most recent of which is the banning of Ethnic Studies in the public school system. Arizona’s State School Superintendent Tom Horne has got his wish and finally saw a legislation that will ban ethnics studies in all Arizona public schools starting December 31st. However, this shit won't last, pardon my French. For starters, the wording of the new law is Unconstitutional. The law orders the cessation of all ethnic studies classes, EXCEPT "Courses or classes for Native American pupils that are required to comply with federal law". I would love to argue a 14th Amendment Equal Protection clause for this situation. But I'm not a lawyer so let's not even go that route. Let's just talk about the legislation's purpose as defined by Tom Horne.

Mr. Horne says:

And one of our important functions is to teach kids, kids from different backgrounds, to treat each other as individuals, and not to — not to infuse them with ethnic chauvinism about a particular race, and teach them narrowly just about the background and culture of the race that they happened to have been born into, but to teach them about all different cultures and different races and different traditions, and not divide them up by race.

Now here's the problem with what he's talking about. No one is advocating anything for kids to be narrowly taught just about their race. As Professor Michael Eric Dyson from Georgetown puts it, the majority of the people in his experience who take these classes are not of the race or ethnic group being taught about. They are the White/Caucasian students who are interested in these classes. Everyone wants the vision that Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of and Mr. Horne so adamantly repeats. "Children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" That isn't going to happen over night and their must be measures taken to get to that point. I understand that people want everything included in one full length history class but the classes taught do not and will not soon have the information that is already there for the Anglo-Saxon European history. So these studies are there to help balance the scales and help everyone to learn about the different cultures that make up our great nation. As far as militancy being taught in these classes, well I'm not sure if that's the case or not, but I damn near would advise it. Because with the recent laws, banning of the ethnic studies (which mostly effects the "Chicano" studies programs) and the new immigration laws, I'm not quite sure the AZ government is really "for the people". Oh yeah let's not forget the state had also mandated that English teachers can not have "thick" or "heavy" accents. In a state where a vast number of the teachers are bilingual and were native Spanish speakers first. I don't even know what to say about it other than it is vague, who determines how heavy someone's accent is.

Now it's time for me to discuss the second recent piece of legislation that really started this whole debacle in Arizona. The new immigration laws that the state have enacted pretty much advocate racial profiling. It's so simple I won't even go into as much detail. Pretty much you know how cops can pull you over if they are suspicious of you committing a crime? Well that's the same thing here. They can pull you over with the suspicion of you being an illegal alien. Problem is who are they pulling over because of it. Most people if there are any at all know how to look past race to decide immigrant status. Who are the illegal immigrants that Arizona is trying to keep out? Those of Mexican or South American descent trying to illegally cross the border. So what will happen? Police will stop those people that look like they are from that descent (racial profiling) and will make them prove their legality/residency. Now, the "Toughest Sheriff in America" Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County is trying to sell it as something wholly different. He claims that the law allows for police to make people prove residency after they have been arrested for a crime. HELLO!!! There are already laws for that federally and locally. What the heck are you talking about? Police can already inquire into your residency after you have been arrested for a crime. Only thing this does now is allow for them to disseminate without there being a crime committed. And the major problem is that dissemination ends up being discrimination. It's just racial profiling and it's hard to argue that it is not with the other legislations being put in place i.e. the ethnic studies I just spoke about. And also, let's not forget that Arizona was one of the main opponents of the MLK Jr. Holiday. The area has a history of being on the opposite side of anything associated with minorities. Until, they give me a reason not to believe so, ARIZONA SUCKS. And I'll be staying as far away as possible.