Will Huppenthal target University-level Mexican American Studies next?

by David Safier

This story, let me begin by saying, comes from Fox News Latino, not from some out-there, lefty radical publication. Here’s the headline:

Arizona Official Considers Targeting Mexican American Studies in University

It looks like Huppenthal thinks TUSD’s Mexican American Studies program could never have come into existence without the outside agitation of UA’s MAS program. He implies he would like to get rid of the university-level program next.

Arizona’s superintendent of schools, John Huppenthal, says Tucson’s suspended Mexican American studies curricula teaches students to resent Anglos, and that the university program that educated the public school teachers is to blame.

“I think that’s where this toxic thing starts from, the universities,” Arizona Superintendent of Schools John Huppenthal said in an interview with Fox News Latino.

Huppenthal was particularly incensed when his old pal Ben Franklin was “maligned” in a MAS class at TUSD where students were taught about Franklin’s questionable relationship to slavery. The problem is, Ben Franklin, great man though he was, did have a questionable relationship to slavery. But Hupp doesn’t believe a word of it.

When he was on the Ed Supe campaign trail, Hupp made a wildly inaccurate statement about Franklin which I got on tape. In 30 seconds, he made three major errors, all of which whitewashed Franklin’s slavery problem.

I think someone should go to NAU where Hupp did his undergraduate work and dissolve the American History program. It obviously taught the man some serious lies about one of the fathers of our country, and Hupp continues to spread his Revolutionary Era propaganda in blatant disregard of the truth.