Tucson Media Continues to

Spin Facts Regarding TUSD

Raza Studies Department
“Here’s Your Raza Smoking Gun,” Warden
Told Arizona Legislature in June 2009

“If You are a ‘Pro-Raza’ Propagandist, KGUN News Really Is ‘On Your
Side,’” Says Community Activist Roy Warden

May 15, 2010

CSII Press
Tucson Arizona

Tucson Arizona’s KGUN’s (“On Your Side”) recent story by April Madison Does
TUSD ethnic studies program violate Arizona’s new law? revises local history and
provides us with yet another classic example of Tucson Media Left Wing Spin.

Maybe KGUN should re-title the story: “Media Bias Shows TUSD Raza Studies
and U.S. History in a Whole New Light.”

For Example:

Madison selectively quotes HB 2281 author and protagonist Tom Horne (while
noting Horne has never actually attended a Raza class) and the bill’s antagonist
Sean Arce, TUSD's director of Mexican American/Raza studies, but altogether
fails to mention John Ward, a former TUSD Raza Studies teacher (and Hispanic)
who blew the lid off the TUSD Raza Studies Program in 2008.

Why is Ward’s viewpoint so important?

Ward just happens to be the same teacher who TUSD Raza Goons put the muscle
to in 2002 when they forced him to “sit in the back of the room” of his own U.S.
History Class while non-accredited Raza Radicals taught the following:

“The basic theme of the curriculum was that Mexican-Americans were

and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the
interests of middle and upper-class whites. In this narrative, whites are
able to maintain their influence only if minorities are held down. Thus,
social, political and economic events in America must be understood
through this lens.

This biased and sole paradigm justified teaching that our community
police officers are an extension of the white power structure and that they
are the strongmen used “to keep minorities in their ghettos.”

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Ward thought the curriculum was appropriate for a college level sociology class
but inappropriate when presented at the high school level as U. S. History.

Don’t you think any objective reporting would necessarily include a report from
someone (especially an Hispanic) who actually taught the class?

Moreover; why would Madison choose to report what students and teachers,
supporters and detractors of Raza Studies say about the program when she could
have answered The Only Important Question:

How Does TUSD Raza Studies Influence Student Behavior Once They Leave the
Classroom?

The TUSD Raza Program Promotes Ethnic Violence

Subsequent to the April 10, 2006 Nationwide Day of Protest March and Rally
(“the Riot in Armory Park”) Tucson Police Department Officials wrote an “After
Action Report” dated May 08, 2006.

The report includes letters between the Tucson City Attorney Mike Rankin, Chief
of Police Richard Miranda, Tucson City Manager Mike Hein, Independent Police
Auditor Liana Perez, etc., which document “closed door” meetings at the Raza
Studies Department between “Raza” students, “Raza” administrators and Tucson
public and police officials, a massive TUSD student walkout, and numerous acts
of Raza Student Perpetuated Violence which erupted in Armory Park on April 10,
2006, resulting in six arrests for felony assault on TPD officers.

(In an official expression of Pima County Solidarity with the objectives of the “Pro
Raza Rioters” Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall refused to prosecute “The
Raza Six,” an issue Bradley Roach campaigned on during his unsuccessful bid to
unseat LaWall for County Attorney in 2008.)

Community Activist Roy Warden has written a series of stories documenting

Raza Violence and the local disconnect between reality and political spin.

On June 24, 2009 Warden wrote: “TUSD Superintendent Celania Fagen has
assured the Arizona Legislature that TUSD’s ‘Raza’ studies teaches ‘positive
community values’.

“It doesn’t. Raza Studies teaches ethnic, political and cultural superiority. It
teaches violence and racism. And I have the documents to prove it!”

Warden continued: “The Tucson Police Department Action Report Dated May
08, 2006 is another ‘smoking gun’ which links TUSD administrators and
teachers, Raza Studies, and the criminal activity of thousands of violent TUSD
student and faculty protestors in Armory Park on April 10, 2006.”

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Question: Why Did the KGUN News Report Fail to Mention the Riot in Armory
Park on April 10, 2006 or the TPD After Action Report?

Answer: Because Tucson Police Department Documents Provided Objective Proof

and Conclusive Evidence That TUSD’s Raza Studies Promotes Ethnic Violence.

Arizonans for Immigration Control Alert Arizona Legislature in 2009

Starting with the Riot in Armory Park on April 10, 2006 Tucson Community
Activists have worked hard to bring to public view decades of Pima County and
Tucson City Pro Raza and Cheap Mexican Labor Policy, and the toxic effects of
racial division and TUSD Raza Studies Program.

“From their racist rhetoric to their stupid costumes, Raza Students act exactly
like German Brown Shirts in pre-war Hitler’s Germany,” says Warden.

“The only thing they haven’t mastered is the Goose Step!”

In his internet newsletters CSII Press and Common Sense II, (received by more
than 1,000 Pima County Lawyers, Prosecutors and Judges, several hundred local
Reporters and Political Writers, hundreds of “Pro-Raza” Activists including Pima
County Legal Defenders Isabel Garcia and Margot Cowan, dozens of Tucson
Police Department Officials, hundreds of “Protect the Border” Activists, etc.)
Warden has published a series of articles, including local media references,
documenting the TUSD Raza Studies Program and the determined efforts of local
activists to confront and stop it.

These articles include:

Pima County Public Defender Hooker Created the Pendejo Thug Who Killed Him

Tucson Activist Group Responsible for Ending Racism in Tucson Unified School
District

Warden to Arizona Legislature: “Here Is Your Raza Studies Smoking Gun”

What’s the (Only) Difference Between the Hitler Youth and TUSD Raza Program?

Regarding KGUN’s article: “It’s just more spin and BS,” Warden says.

“The local media just doesn’t care about the truth, or the great suffering endured
by both the American and Mexican peoples as a result of Pima County and
Tucson City Pro-Raza, Cheap Mexican Labor Policy.

“In spite of their so called ‘Humanitarian’ Viewpoint they don’t care how many
Mexican Citizens they kill in our desert either.

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“The local media (apparently) think their only job is to create controversy by
presenting opposing partisan viewpoints.”

Trial Testimony From Tucson Police Officers, Beth Tradico (Calli Olin
Academy Principal) And Video Evidence Prove Raza Students Violent

When it comes to the TUSD Raza Studies Program, everybody has a viewpoint;
truth however, is not a matter of public opinion.

The truth about TUSD Raza Studies can be objectively determined by a review of
video records, government documents and trial testimony presented in 2008 by
Tucson Police Officers and Beth Tradico, the former Principal of the Calli Olin
Academy.

“The answer to the question of whether the TUSD Raza Studies Program has
academic merit or merely provides a forum for Pro Raza Advocates to incite racial
division and create violence is a matter of public record,” Warden says.

“That record now sits before the Arizona Supreme Court, awaiting a decision on
when the case can move forward.

“When the Arizona Supreme Court finally decides to stop protecting their former
Chief Justice Ruth McGregor, who resigned last year as a consequence of her
own attempt to promulgate Pro Raza Policy, the public will see the record and
learn the truth.”

Roy Warden
roywarden@cox.net

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