A law was passed in AZ on May 12, 2010 that has scheduled the end of ethnic studies in the state for December 31, 2010. This is overdue. Ethnic studies promote the overthrow of the government. They encourage minorities to join in what they call "solidarity," or a mob-like state in which people assume that they are disempowered and must kill their oppressors to attain justice.
Do we need our youth learning that they are "oppressed" and need to free themselves through violence? No. If they are oppressed, it's better that they keep their peace in oppression than that they break a system that is working for many well-intentioned white people.
More power to you, Arizona!
I feel a little bit conflicted, though, because if I am all white, does that mean that I don't have an ethnicity? There are no ethnic studies classes for white people. "Ethnos" means people, so does that mean I am not a person? Ethnic, according to The American Heritage Dictionary 2000 edition I have at my house, also has as one of its meanings: "not Christian or Jewish, heathen." So, because I am not covered in ethnic studies, I am a Muslim terrorist?
Or what if one of my white ancestors was an oppressor of my other white ancestor, and one part of me tries to rise up and destroy the other part to free itself? I am both English and Irish. Shouldn't I pass a ban on myself from reading Irish literature to protect the English part of me from being choked in my sleep by a drunk, power-hungry Irishwoman? And maybe I am not all white. Maybe I am a real, ethnic person, and not a terrorist at all.
Maybe one of those not-white people slept with one of my English ancestors, and my Irish self is choking me in the night without just cause? I could be part African, or Chinese, or Nigerian, or Indian, and not even know it. Then my Chinese self might decide it's oppressed and take out its English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch and Lithuanian oppressors in me. But only if I start reading about Chinese culture.
The only safe way for even a peace-loving caucasian like me to escape the rage of the oppressed is to not read anything except the Bible. There are no ethnic people in the Bible. It is the history of pure people and God's call to them to come home throughout history. Even if someone who wasn't in the Bible has snuck into your family, it's OK if you only read the Bible because you're not reading anything that would make them think that they didn't deserve their oppression. But if you are very white and you know for sure that you are, it is even more dangerous for you; don't read anything - just listen to the voice of God, which is unobstructed in you by threats of biological insurrection.
And if you aren't white, do you really think you need to kill people to have a good life? No, well why are you fighting to read books that encourage the overthrow of the government? People will die if you overthrow the government. People are dying now, but those are from natural causes. Death is a part of life, so stop trying to think that you need to do something to make the world better.
HB 2281, thanks for saving us from the wretched bodies of the earth. Their brain cells are a threat to the American way. See them in detention, self-serving their agitated state. It's contained and right; we're free from their spite and history.
Blessed are the peacemakers. Watch out for the rainbowed rest, the so-called oppressed. And the Irish.
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