12:55am May 4, 2012

“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So, in a strange way, I’m pleased that the racist folks of Arizona have officially declared, in banning me alongside Urrea, Baca, and Castillo, that their anti-immigration laws are also anti-Indian. I’m also strangely pleased that the folks of Arizona have officially announced their fear of an educated underclass. You give those brown kids some books about brown folks and what happens? Those brown kids change the world. In the effort to vanish our books, Arizona has actually given them enormous power. Arizona has made our books sacred documents now.”

Sherman Alexie in response to the Arizona Ethnic Studies Ban (via muxeramatista773) True facts. Many of the “Mexican American” people in this town have families that were here before the US took this place over from Mexico. Seriously. That doesn’t make the people who came through the border last year wrong, either. It just makes “anti-immigrant” racism even more ridiculous. To a certain extent South AZ and Mexico are part of the same family. For some people quite literally. And this doesn’t even get into the Native American stuff. Several tribes are cut in half by the Border. They were promised the right to come and go freely on either side. Now it often gets called into question and they get stopped and harassed. >_< (via soilrockslove)

Quite true in California as well.

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