1. 22:13 31st Jan 2012

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    Tags: arizonajunot diazmexicanamexican american studieslatino

    This is covert white supremacy in the guise of educational standard-keeping—nothing more, nothing less. Given the sharp increase of anti-Latino rhetoric, policies, and crimes in Arizona and the rest of the country, one should not be surprised by this madness and yet one is. The removal of those books before those students’ very eyes makes it brutally clear how vulnerable communities of color and our children are to this latest eruption of cruel, divisive, irrational, fearful, and yes racist politics. Truly infuriating. And more reason to continue to fight for a just society.
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    Junot Diaz

    (On Arizona’s ban on Mexican American Studies, in The Progressive)

     
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