http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100512/ap_on_re_us/us_arizona_ethnic_studies

I'm not sure what the controversy is:

Six UN human rights experts released a statement earlier Tuesday saying all people have the right to learn about their own cultural and linguistic heritage, they said.

when the bill says:

The measure doesn't prohibit classes that teach about the history of a particular ethnic group, as long as the course is open to all students and doesn't promote ethnic solidarity or resentment.

You have to admit this is wrong:

"He's been trying to restrict it ever since he learned that Hispanic civil rights activist Dolores Huerta told students in 2006 that "Republicans hate Latinos."

When only MOST Republicans hate Latinos. :devil <joke>

District officials said the program doesn't promote resentment, and they believe it would comply with the new law.

The question for me is, considering the heat they are taking in Arizona for their other stupid law, does it make sense to pass this one based on really one ill-advised statement made in one class?

Does it really change the law though?

With the law cracking down on illegal immigrants, it doesn't make it any more illegal, or make anyone who is here legally suddenly illegal it just enforces a law already on the books. If anything the law is just redundant.

As for making a law that prohibits discrimination in the classroom, we're really against that? From the articles I've read most of them suggest that the majority of the classes that focus on the different ethnic histories would still be allowed. What wouldn't be is classes touting one 'race' (we're all human, well most of us anyways so I never got the whole race bullshit) as being better than another.

I think we're seeing the pendulum swing back the other way a bit from the over PC era of the late 90s early 00s.

But then again maybe this really is some right wing conspiracy to keep the man down.

Sounds perfectly PC to me.

I have no problem with ethnic solidarity, but resentment I do have an issue with. If people are proud to be of mexican heritage I see no different than my hometown of Boston, particularly the south, being proud to be Irish. I am curious how this would effect Black History Month if at all.

Ya'll don't understand. Us here in Arizona is just gittin back to our European roots.

Well they don't say "Ya'll" in Europe, so get with the program.