William L. Houston

A teacher at Lumpkin County High School in North Georgia has been suspended after she let a group of White students in her AP History class dress up in Ku Klux Klan garb for a film project. The video the students were shooting was about the "history of racism." The students were escorted through the cafeteria during lunch and black and mixed race students were offended by their attire.

A small tempest in a teacup about "racism" has followed in the wake. The NAACP has gotten involved and expressed their usual shock and outrage. The teacher has apologized for the incident, but could still possibly be fired. Locals have called it a "a big to-do about nothing" and "political correctness gone crazy."

Clearly, there was no malicious intent here. The students involved were not celebrating the Ku Ku Klan. They were trying to depict its atrocities. Their AP History teacher obviously thought it would be a good exercise in white guilt over racism and slavery. The KKK was topical to Georgia history and the project would have been an opportune time to initiate Attorney General Eric Holder's much desired "conversation about race."

Catherine Ariemma was trying to improve race relations, not poison them, but even that level of humility no longer cuts the mustard with the PC Left. Whites + KKK - Indispensable Context = Racism = Recipe for National Controversy.

In other news, 1 out of 5 Georgia public schools has been accused of tampering with student test scores on standardized tests. 58 of the 191 schools under investigation are in the predominantly black Atlanta metropolitan area. 69% of Atlanta elementary and middle schools are being probed for possible tampering. The credibility of the state education system is in shambles and black students are the worst off because of it.

But no ... the real story in America is a well intentioned, highly talented Georgia teacher who made a racial faux pas in an AP History class, not the fraud and incompetence going on in Atlanta's failing public schools, which will likely have severe long term consequences for the state. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can't so easily beat their chests, organize boycotts, and march about that one.

It is just another day in American under multiculturalism.

President Obama announced today that he is sending 1,200 National Guard troops to the Mexican border and will ask Congress for $500 million to increase border security. Last Friday, a "top immigration official warned that the federal government might not actually collect and deport those caught under the new (Arizona) law."

Sending troops to the border is the Obama administration's latest farce at pretending to secure the border. George W. Bush famously pulled the same stunt in 2006 during his push for amnesty. He didn't mean it either. It was just a sop to his allies who were getting hammered for being soft on illegal immigration.

The whole point of this meeting with Senate Republicans was to convince former allies like John McCain and John Kyl to movie forward with another push for "comprehensive immigration reform." Obama wants amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens who reside in the United States. He wants to expand legal immigration to import a Democratic electorate from the Third World.

No one in Arizona has been fooled by this farce. The Obama administration is concerned about the "civil rights" of drug traffickers and illegal aliens, not the people of Arizona who have to suffer the consequences of the federal government's conscious decision to neglect border security.

In recent weeks, the liberal media has tarred and feathered the good people of Arizona before the eyes of the world. The United Nations has launched an official investigation. Cities like Los Angeles, CA, Richmond, VA and Columbus, OH have announced boycotts of the state. Liberal columnists have wailed about how the new law (which explicitly bans racial profiling) will result in racial profiling. President Obama and House Democrats have ganged up on Arizona with President Calderon of Mexico.

A torrent of abuse against Arizona has streamed from the Left. We are told the new law is motivated by "white racial anxiety," racism, bigotry, and plain old fashioned hatred of Latinos. In the midst of all this, Arizona passed another law banning ethnic studies on the grounds that these courses were being abused to encourage racial chauvinism and intolerance. This law has been criticized from the same quarters. In a scaremongering tone, The Huffington Post announced that "Teachers With Accents Can No Longer Teach English." 

Meanwhile, Accuracy in Academia investigated these "ethnic studies" courses and uncovered some pretty damaging material. In the high schools of Tuscon, Arizona, a book by Paulo Freire (a Brazilian Marxist) called Pedagogy of the Oppressed is required reading in "Raza Studies" (i.e., Race Studies), otherwise known as "Mexican-American courses." Another favorite is Occupied America by Rodolfo Acuna who is a professor of Chicano Studies at California State University in Northridge.

Here's a choice quote from Occupied America. It gives the reader an idea of the sort of material Hispanic students are being exposed to in Arizona public schools:

"We are fed up. We are going to move to do away with the injustice to the Chicano and if the 'gringo' doesn't get out of our way, we will stampede over him."

Another priceless gem:

"Gutierrez attacked the gringo establishment angrily at a press conference and called upon Chicanos to "Kill the gringo,' which meant to end white control over Mexicans."

Kill the gringo! Stampede over him! Rise up and overthrow the White oppressor in a bloody Communist insurrection! Hmm ... I wonder why Jan Brewer, the Governor of Arizona, felt hateful, racist, and incendiary material like that ought not to be subsidized by the 'gringo' taxpayers.

These woeful tales of oppression and exploitation are laughable. Illegal aliens who literally break into America and demand special privileges under the law are oppressed? If so, they sought out "oppression" by coming here. That's like a random stranger breaking into my house in the middle of the night and demanding amnesty (the lawful right to reside on my property) as a reward for his crime. It says a lot about the state of America that we are even having this silly debate.

Occupied America includes a map of Mexico in 1821 which includes the American Southwest. The story of how Mexico lost the region in a war with the Polk administration is recounted from an ethnic chauvinist perspective. From 1821 until 1848, a mere 27 years, the American Southwest was under Mexican sovereignty. From 1848 until 2010, 162 years, the Southwest has belonged to the United States. 

Mexico never had a compelling claim to the Southwest. In the 27 years the region was under Mexican rule, Mexico City exercised little control over the area. Local Indian tribes like the Comanches and Pueblo Indians were the true authorities. Few Mexicans lived in Alta California and the Southwest. This is especially true of the Indians and mestizos from Central and Southern Mexico who are predominant among the immigrants who come from that country and make the usual race based claims.

The people of Arizona are under no obligation to subsidize Marxist pedagogues determined to incite violence and racial hatred against them and their descendants. I can't help but wonder why the Far Left groups who are ostensibly committed to fighting "racism" are so quiet about government sponsored racial hatred in American public schools. 

That disturbing line of inquiry raises more questions than answers.

Here's a news item for our friend at Long Island Wins. Patrick Young is a proud employee of the Treason Lobby. This guy has been smearing us for several months now. Until now, we haven't found occasion to respond.

I learned this morning of a horrific traffic accident on Long Island. Elias Garcia, a 26 year old illegal alien from Honduras, jumped a curb and hit four sixteen year old girls with his automobile before fleeing from the scene. Two of the girls were screaming on the hood of his car as he drove away. A patriotic bystander followed Garcia and physically held him down until the police arrived.

Strangely, Patrick Young has nothing to say about this local incident on his blog. American girls being brutally killed does not matter to the political class.  What matters is encouraging others to boycott their fellow citizens in Arizona that are trying desperately to enforce American laws.  (Incidentally, support in Arizona for the law is now up to 71%.)  

Incidents like this one and others I have written about are why Congress must act to pass "comprehensive immigration reform" now.  Of course, I think we have a different idea about what exactly that should entail. 

Felipe Calderon, the president of Mexico, denounces Arizona before a joint session of Congress. He accuses Arizona of racial profiling and breaching the gap between the "core values" that allegedly unites our two countries. Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats give this loathsome hypocrite a standing ovation. A number of Republicans sit and listen to Calderon's tirade in silence.

Mexico has a different policy regarding its own border with Central America. This is another case of "comprehensive immigration reform" for thee, but not for me. Why are these people taken seriously?