VIDEO: Tucson's Mexican-American Studies Ban Daily Show

[Ryan Goble]

This is a classic Daily Show clip in that it simultaneously hilarious and beyond disturbing.

 

The following blog hyperlinks to a bunch of related news articles about when this came to vote at a board meeting following the DS clip. Some flavor..

According to the Tucson Sentinel and other outlets, at least one smoke bomb was set off in the room after the vote was cast, and other demonstrators outside “pounded on the walls and windows” of the district’s headquarters.

Board members quickly adjourned and left the room following the vote, and the video stream for the meeting was cut. The stream can still be accessed at the district’s Livestream channel.

Arce’s dismissal comes just over a week after he was selected by the Zinn Education Project as the first recipient of the 2012 Myles Horton Education Award for Teaching People’s History, named after the co-founder of Highlander Folk School in Tennessee.

I would guess Public Enemy probably saw this one coming - their video "By the Time I Get to Arizona" about the issue with MLK day in AZ circa 1991...