More goofball legislation in AZ

Let's just face it,

Arizona has been crawling with racists for a very long time. Presently our state has 21 nativist extremist groups (vigilante groups) and 19 hate groups (12 of these are in the greater Phoenix area.)

And then Sen. Russell Pearce, Gov. Jan Brewer and their comrades in retrogressive legislation gave us us SB 1070--an open invitation to racial profiling a la Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

And now Brewer has signed Tom Horne's law.

Horne is the state superintendent of education (presently running for attorney general) who has long been having conniptions over a fine Mexican-American studies program here in Tucson that teaches about ethnic history and literature and the contributions of ethnic groups. (The school district has similar classes in African-American and Native-American studies.)

This goofball law prohibits classes that

* promote the overthrow of the US government (Obviously this one is just plain nuts...)

* promote resentment toward a race or class of people (This from a state government that is facilitating the racial profiling of brown people...)

* are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group. (This is Horne's big gripe--think about it...)

* advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals (so now solidarity is a bad word, as in the Montgomery bus boycott or the Selma marches...)

That feverish lot in Phoenix is driving our state straight to hell.