Post-Reading 1

• By reading the essay about the strike at San Francisco State University, it gave me a clearer point of view of the importance of Ethnic Studies in our lives. Not only the minorities but whites as a whole. 
• Yes. With the Arizona state, House Bill 2281, government are trying to ban books that promotes the overthrow of U.S. government because the 'whites' or Americans didn't want minorities or other ethnicities to think that they're the bad people. In some case like history books, there are some part about the minorities but mostly about 'whites and their good deeds'.  As I can see today there are some similarities of what the students faced in 1968 and today. With the students' stand on criticism about the studies on their own race and color, they mostly achieved the freedom to study history on their own culture and to cultivate their race but not all. 
• Ethnic studies is basically the study of variety of one's culture and history. It wants to articulate the respect that we and other race are suppose to implement on minorities. Ethnic studies course is also a way to understand minorities coming in this country, not only by their culture but also by their values as a human being. As the government criticizes higher lever of education, minorities are not given the chance to study or have a better education and as people with their own culture steps into the middle class level they took a stand for their own freedom to teach and learn their own culture. 
• Legislators of House Bill 2281: Okay we'll give you your freedom to study and teach your values except you have to follow these rules: Do not use teachings that overthrows the U.S. government, Do not implement resentment of your own race, Only minorities of that culture can learn in class, and Do not advocate ethnic solidarity. 
• 1986 student on strike: That's still unfair for minorities. 
• My past history classes were about the U.S. government or the good deeds of the the United States itself. Rule number 3 would be violated in a traditional history class in high school or in college because if only people who are white can learn the in the class then why does the government or school facility allows minorities to learn U.S. history, which is a pre-requisite or general education in order to graduate. For rule number 1 it is appropriate because it doesn't implement the overthrow of the United States government. For rule number 2, it doesn't promote a resentment toward a race or class of people. Also, for rule number 3, a history class is not an example of ethnic solidarity and students's are treated as individuals.
• Horne is opposed to teaching ethnic studies at Tucson Unified School District because it separates minorities within their own ethnic group because of rule number 3 in the House Bill 2281, which also creates outraged and anger by other race. Also, he wants students to learn diverse culture and race.
• Dyson's argument is about how Ethnic Studies constitutes White-American history. Horne only targeted Chicano studies and not other race. Also, Dyson argues that White-Americans benefit from ethnic studies of other culture (E.g. Civil War). 
• Some of the benefits in taking ethnic studies course are to know other's culture and history of struggles in order to give some respect to why people do what they do in their culture. By ethnic studies, student's can also learn more about the struggles to fight for democracy, minorities right and freedom (e.g. Martin Luther King Jr. Cesar Chaves, etc.)
• My take on the controversy is there's nothing wrong about taking Ethnic Studies class. It's a way for me and for other students with diverse culture to learn about the social injustices that was present in the past and I would like to learn about who and how we got democracy in this country that we and other minorities benefit from. 

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