Texas GOP platform would discourage multiculturalism
By Tony Diaz
Published 10:12 p.m., Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Are you the type of Republican who will spank our young the way our elders were hit for speaking Spanish in school long ago?
The Texas GOP 2012 platform makes it sound like that. It advocates, "Corporal punishment is effective and legal in Texas." The GOP agenda goes on to describe what it considers intellectual transgressions: "We believe the current teaching of a multicultural curriculum is divisive" ...
So are you the type of Republican who would prohibit the teaching of the story of World War II hero and Texas legend Roy Benavidez from the classroom? His memoir will fall under the rubric of multiculturalism. He's an American hero. His life story is not divisive ...
Will you ban Mexican-American studies? Will you spank my son if he reads the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Will you ban the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston? These works are powerful examples of multicultural literature ...
http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Texas-GOP-platform-would-discourage-3700653.php
