Racism And Anti-Americans In The Film Precious Knowledge

Mexican American studies is a class offered to many students around the world so that they can learn about their ethnicity and culture backgrounds. In the documentary Precious Knowledge, there had been about 48% of Mexican American students from Tucson High that would drop out of school or not graduate. Then they decided to get an ethnic studies class. The class was a huge success and since then Tucson High had close to 100% of students graduating every year, and 85% going on to college.

Tom Horne the former superintendent believed and stated that the ethnic studies program was racist and was teaching Mexican American students to hate all white people because of their ethnic background. They then passed a law that pretty much articulated that

If all those rules in the law were to be followed then the other two classes should’ve been discontinued as well because those classes could’ve been encouraging students to be racist and anti-American because of slavery and other matters in the past. Plus, how could they have passed the law when nobody had gone to visit Tucson High? Did they just figure it was a racist program because it had Mexican-Americans in it? Because if that was the case then they would’ve been the racist ones for assuming that the class was racism without even putting in effort observe it. John Huppenthal did go visit one class but was not very social towards the students in

For example, when some of the teachers and students got arrested during a sit-in. they didn’t need to be arrested, for one they weren’t even really talking so they couldn’t say they were being too loud, they weren’t fighting or arguing with anybody so they weren’t doing anything violent, plus every place that they did a sit-in was public so they weren’t really doing anything wrong. There was no need for anybody to be arrested. Then when they started the Chicano movement there were Mexican Americans on one side then whites on the other, and one of the white men advised a Mexican man to stay behind an invisible line what he said was “the border”, and then threatened the man because of his ethnicity. And then there was a part where a white man just burned a Mexican flag in front of them that wasn’t only unnecessary but really disrespect full the students didn’t do anything to those white people to be getting disrespected like that they wanted their class back. People treated Mexicans as if they were animals, didn’t have any rights and like they had no reason to be here. They’re humans too they shouldn’t be treated any differently than others.

So I’d say if there was something someone wanted and people are trying to take it away go for it and try to get it back whether you think it’s wrong or not. There’s always going to be those people who don’t agree with you but who knows maybe there would be more people agreeing with you