On Immigration: The world the majority of elected officials in Arizona wish to bring into being is a medieval throwback: a place populated by serfs and lords—the former are people of color who would be moat diggers, or maybe they could get a weekend gig operating the drawbridges to the castles where the lords live, castles built by the serfs in the first place. (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/a-new-poll-finds-support-for-arizonas-immigration-law/) | http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/05/03/2010-05-03_latino_pol_ariz_law_fires_us_ up.html |
On Education: Arizona’s new ethnic studies regulations will afflict children exposed to it with perpetual darkness, “tied tongues,” and an inability to hear or feel cascading claps of thunder. These policies display a fundamental fear of openness, of difference, diversity—in short, all those things that make it possible to discover the unity in diversity. By trying to study the world’s oceans and seas, by dipping a single bucket into some dying well and then sifting through its contents as if it is representative of nature’s vastness this possibility can only produce paranoia, anger, entropy and de-evolution. The Flintstones would then be Arizona’s first family. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/arizona-ethnic-studies-cl_n_558731.html |
More on Education: If extended to those who created Arizona’s new policy of removing teachers with a heavy accent, or who do not use grammar appropriately from the classroom, Arizona’s Department of Education would be ravaged—maybe a tight coterie of anal retentive experts who could speak clearly and be perfectly understood by the blank face starring at them in the mirror. What a wonderfully rich opportunity to teach…. http://racerelations.about.com/b/2010/05/03/arizona-targets-teachers-with-accents-ethnic-studies-programs.htm
Beautifully articulated summaries...and let's not forget about the law that just passed the house to make sure pluralism is not going to threaten the right in Arizona and that criticism of U.S. policy is kept to a minimum in education. See HB 2281 in the light of the single bucket and you catch a glimpse of the future if we do not re-member the "gift economy" of our ancestors and put ourselves back into the flow of reciprociy.
Posted by: Four Arrows | May 03, 2010 at 11:08 PM