I will always come down on the side of love and civility. I deeply regret that you two (Powers and Morales) are going at each other. This is what the Left does too often…instead of working together,  the Left turns on each other and starts tearing away. Pamela, you are overreaching to call a good old American protest action as “mob action.” And Morales, you INSIST that you have the only politically correct perspective and everyone must follow it in detail 100% or else you attack them. Too bad – when the revolution is over, you’ll need friends to build a new and better world for all of us. And who will be left standing after all this bickering?  Those Nazis in Phoenix, that’s who!

And just when have the Mexican fringe lunatics demonstrated “civilty” – were it not for the “race card”  Grijalva would still be a waiter at a local mexican food resturant and Gallardo would be working at Weise Guys car wash … it’s like kicking the lid off a septic tank ..

Pam you are once again playing the victim, as white people do when they are trying to oppress another people. To blame people for acting out the results of their own oppression, is itself an act of oppression. Please report the truth. You were not there last night or April 26th. Now you are putting out blatant lies about what happened. There was no mob because there was no violence, look up the word, you sound like the corporate media. There was no hate speech, nobody threatened anyone’s life, no one threatened anyone with violence because of their opinion or the color of their skin. You are consumed by white privilege and don’t understand the history of TUSD nor the racist context in which this resolution was proposed. You nor anyone supporting Stegeman’s position have not supplied us with any facts or studies that support his distorted claims. You can’t play the victim when you don’t supply facts to support your opinion. It is also extremely disingenuous of you to say the Tucson community is destroying civility, when you haven’t provided any facts. You started the name callin when you couldn’t support your opinion with facts. Stegeman is being called out because he refuses to listen or provide facts. If he is not a racist than he is the most ignorant appeaser of the racists in Phoenix. Don’t cloak yourself in civility when you began the name calling. Don’t cloak yourself with Dr. Cornell West when you are doing the very opposite of what he called for. There were black, brown, red, yellow, and white faces standing in support of MAS and against Stegeman’s resolution at both meetings, they spoke at the podium, and they have been at previous Board meetings. Dr. West said “ethnic studies is the search for truth.” Sadly you are trying to stop that search. Stop calling yourself progressive. A progressive stands for progress, which would mean expanding the courses, NOT sending them back to elective status where they began in the late 1990s. You clearly have no understanding of TUSD’s history of institutionalized racism, the IC program in particular, nor do you even see the moral corruption of your and Stegeman’s position. You don’t “compromise” with racists just because they run and control one of the major parties. And in case you don’t know civility, free speech, and transparency were suppressed last night by the police. Never knew a “progressive” to side with fascists like the SALC, made up of Jim Click, Don Diamond, Si Schorr, and their henchman John Pedicone. Never knew a progressive to be in support of a fascist police presence that attacked elderly women and peaceful students. The only violence last night and last Tuesday was perpetrated by the police. Its not too late to admit you are wrong and join the community in our fight against racism.

Racist ??  Nonsense!!!
the ‘kids’ are exercising the tactics taught in MAS classes. 
Throw the race card!  Shout down the opposition! Denigrate the establishment!
An elective class solves a lot ills, plus provides educational flexibilty!!

To be honest I haven’t been following this situation closely but the headline about the “new civility” caught my eye.  If this is the thing that killed it, good!  Decorum isn’t the same as morality and all too often lately the admonishments to be civil are coming from people who have never been very tolerant of dissent.  They’ve relished using this newfound cudgel to silence it.  

IOW, f#%k civility!