well, my philosophy is the fundamental american value that we re individuals. we re not exemplars of the race we happen to be born into. what s important is what we know, what we can do, what is our character and not what race were we born into, and in tucson what they did is they divided the kids into different races, african studies for african-american kids and raza and particularly in the raza studies they taught a radical agenda and we have testimony from teachers and ex-teachers that they were teaching kids that they lived in occupied mexico, that the united states is oppressive and making them angry. you say this is a complete overreaction and in fact, you voted against this. this bill passed. this was signed. it is law, but you voted against this, why? that s right, i want to point out that tom is incorrect when he states that students are
government. the most radically separatist organization in this country has been the american government. so now we want to not deny the legitimacy of telling people the truth, we want to say, bring the truth in the open so we can understand the greatness of this country but we can t do so by pretending that the ugliness did not exist. so, tom, what about that? i mean are you throwing the baby out with the bath water? why not try to change the curriculum? you know i was on that march in washington in summer of 1963 just graduated from high school where martin luther king gave his famous speech. we should be judged by the quality of our character, not cot lor color of our skin. and that has been my most fundamental belief my entire life that we are individuals. we are not exemplars of the race we were born into, and this philosophy that s preached by this program in tucson and by your other guest that s a race-obsessed philosophy and it s a downer philosophy. teach people oppressed
that racist portrayals of president obama should be wiped out altogether. and i m sure that people say no, legitimate points to be made but those racist elements must be dealt with. i understand why it would be problematic but radical separatism has been practiced by american government. the most radically separatist organization in this country has been the american government. so now we want to not deny the legitimacy of telling people the truth, we want to say, bring the truth in the open so we can understand the greatness of this country but we can t do so by pretending that the ugliness did not exist. so, tom, what about that? i mean are you throwing the baby out with the bathwater? and why not change the curriculum? you know i was on that march in washington in summer of 1963 just graduated from high school where martin luther king gave his famous speech. we should be judged by the quality of our character and not the color of our skin. and that has been my most fundamental