Last week, John Huppenthal, Arizona's superintendent of public instruction who recently came under fire for racist posts calling a statewide ban on Spanish media, got emotional as he tried to explain himself. 

"We can imagine the emotional impact. I have talked to people who have been hurt by the hour," he said. "The person I feel most to the point of my own tears, is my assistant Merle."

Huppenthal created the posts on the Espresso Pundit blog under the name Falcon9, according to RawStory. "We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish newspapers," Huppenthal wrote. 

The superintendent then took it a step further. "This is America, speak English. I don't mind them selling Mexican food as long as the menus are mostly in English. And, I'm not being humorous or racist." 

After his posts were discovered, calls for Huppenthal's resignation continue to grow, including Arizona's former Superintendent, Lisa Graham Keegan who said she personally called Huppenthal and asked him to step down, according to 3TV Arizona. 

In 2010, Huppenthal helped write a law to ban ethnic studies courses for Latino and African American students in public schools. The ban was vigorously opposed by activists who created underground libraries filled with books no longer allowed in schools. 

Huppenthal even called the Mexican-American studies program in the Tuscan Unified School District a violation of the law because it created racial resentment. 

In a TV interview with Anderson Cooper, he argued the studies promoted "ethnic chauvinism" and that students of color shouldn't be taught they were oppressed. 

"We should be teaching these kids that this is the land of opportunity and not teach them the downer that they're oppressed and they can't get anywhere and should be angry against the government, against the country," he said.

Despite mounting pressure, Huppenthal is not resigning, according AZCentral, he still plans on running in the Aug. 26 primary.