the proper channels

I don't want to talk about the situation in Arizona—the white woman governor poking her finger in the president's face, the need for brown-skinned immigrants like me to carry ID at all times, and now the banning of books that do nothing more than tell the TRUTH. I wrote about the dismantling of the Mexican American Studies Program in a post I've submitted to a Canadian government blog—if it gets published this week, I'll let you know. I wrote about Wednesday's "Teach-in" in emails to my colleagues at work. I plan to talk about it when classes start tomorrow because I doubt my students are aware of the pressure across the country to do away with Ethnic Studies in schools AND universities. But I'm sorry to say that right now I don't want to blog about it here. I'll just point you to Edi's fabulous list of links, which includes the important work Debbie Reese is doing over at AICL. I've asked my college to order a copy of Precious Knowledge and will screen it this semester as part of our Ethnic Studies Film Series. It's not enough, but it's a start. Because we all have a choice at moments like these: do something, or do nothing.