Framing Protest Music & Ethnicity Studies as “Illegal”
A conservative American head of the State Education Department in Tucson, Arizona, John Huppenthal, has published a letter saying that high school courses that teach Mexican history, Rage Against the Machine lyrics and hip hop lyrics by rapper KRS-One are dangerous because they incite the overthrow of the American government. He also argues that ethnic studies “had bred resentment against Whites.”
In case you were wondering, this is what state-sanctioned White supremacy sounds like, especially given Huppenthal was also responsible for banning Mexican-American studies in Tucson schools. I wrote about this ban in 2012: http://buff.ly/1wilcyN
Huppenthal says these courses should remain “illegal.” Nice choice of words, given this the language used to frame Mexican-Americans – despite the fact that the United Nations charter shows there are, in fact, no such thing as “illegal” people.
According to Huppenthal’s logic, courses that teach culture and history from a non-White-American perspective, even when representing the largest minority group in the state, and music that promotes the end of racism, are a huge threat to White society.
Rage Against the Machine’s Take the Power Back below includes lyrics about the importance of ethnicity studies, as written and sung by Chicano Zach de la Rocha. http://buff.ly/1wildCW
Story: http://buff.ly/1wildCZ #sociology #hiphop #rageagainstthemachine #mexican #latinos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqkMsXcHQYg&feature=youtu.be&utm_content=buffer1ffda&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js
White supremacy ain’t what it used to be – I remember reading that white folks are out numbered here in the USA 🙂
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You joke Joey Brockert but White people still make up 75% of the population in the USA. White supremacy is well assured when law makers can ban critical thinking about history and culture.
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The Other Sociologist I remembered reading that, but forgot, or did not nice, that it will happen about 2045. Sorry. & you are right – even if I was accurate, there are privileges to being white no matter what in this country. White supremast (sp?) would argue with that, but they have an Axe to grind.
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