WHEN IT COMES TO EDUCATION- DON'T REMEMBER THE ALAMO
(Mensaje se repite en Español)
Although the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that supposedly ended the Mexican-American War was signed in 1848, it seems like the last battle of this war is still being fought in Texas, where Texas School Board member David Bradley expresses the 10-5 Republican majority's feeling that a Mexican-American studies program would be a form of "reverse racism," instead of something that might finally reverse a long Texas tradition of institutional racism. In this battle, what seem of greater concern to the more rational members of the Republican party is the state's hispanic population, which is now a majoritary 51%.
Texas Conservative Republican White folks have dominated the state's politics, since it became okay to give up the 100 year Dixiecrat tradition in the 1960s. This fight over Mexican-American studies seems to put them between a rock and a hard place. Clearly, the Republican Party can no longer ignore its burgeoning Mexican American population and continue to hold political power by not addressing the concerns of this Mexican-American population that has traditionally voted with the Democrats and clearly holds the balance of political power in Texas' future.
The present conflict over a class in Mexican-American studies doesn't exist in a vacuum, but goes back to when Texas and what WHEN IT COMES TO EDUCATION- DON'T REMEMBER THE ALAMO - Perdaily.com: