Arizona Targets Ethnic Studies Program While Zebulon Police Set Up Check Points In North Carolina

There is an all out assault on the Black and Brown people of America. Arizona Republicans are making a name for themselves with tough and possibly unconstitutional legislation targeting ethnic minorities. Their controversial immigration legislation was the spark that ignited the current national immigration law debate with several groups expressing concerned that the new laws will lead to racial profiling. What is feared that is going to happen when and if Arizona’s new state laws take effect, is allegedly already happening in a small North Carolina town called Zebulon. On April 29th, 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation (ACLU-NCLF), the North Carolina Justice Center, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice launched an investigation into the Zebulon Police Department and the Wake County Sheriff’s Office who are accused of setting up check points outside of Latino places of worship.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill into law that targets a school district's ethnic studies program. Taking the education of students out of the hands of their parents and local communities and into the hands of government bureaucracy. Governor Brewer signed this bill hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure. Republican schools chief Tom Horne had been pushing the bill for years and said he believes the Tucson school district's Mexican-American studies program teaches Latino students that they are oppressed by white people. There are no Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the State of Arizona but The Tucson Unified School District program offers specialized courses in African-American, Mexican-American and Native-American studies that focus on history and literature and include information about the influence of a particular ethnic group according to the Associated Press.