"The only other time a book of mine was banned was in 1986, when the apartheid government in South Africa banned ‘Strangers in Their Own Country,’ a curriculum I’d written that included a speech by then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela,” said Bill Bigelow [ed. of Rethinking Columbus], who serves as curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools magazine, and co-directs the online Zinn Education Project. ”We know what the South African regime was afraid of. What is the Tucson school district afraid of?"
Who’s afraid of “The Tempest”? - Salon.com
In regards to the superintendent of public instruction in Arizona passing a ban on Mexican-American studies, and any books or units where “race, ethnicity, and oppression are central themes.”
Oh, he also compared Mex-Am studies to Nazi indoctrination. Who the fuck put him in charge?
