Thread: Image Problem for La Raza

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060...1645-7346r.htm
An image problem
TODAY'S EDITORIAL
April 4, 2006


Today in the letters section, the National Council of La Raza, which declares itself the "largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States," takes issue with our March 30 editorial, " 'Room but for one flag'." Responding to our suggestion that Latino community leaders should condemn the radical reconquista movement, La Raza says that is like asking them to "prove [their] loyalty to this country."
To suggest such a thing, the letter continues, "maligns the hundreds of years of contributions that Latinos have made ... [and] dishonors every Hispanic who has served in this country's armed forces, from the Revolutionary War to the war on terror."
Leave aside for a moment how asking a Latino civil-rights organization to condemn an anti-American message being promulgated by "radicals" -- as we clearly identified them in the editorial -- "dishonors every Hispanic who has served" in the U.S. military. This is the same quality of rhetoric that accuses anyone opposed to a guest-worker program of being a racist.
We take no credit for being the first to notice the desecration of the American flag at the recent rallies throughout the country. Americans of all backgrounds saw the images we did on their computer screens at work and at home on the nightly news. For those civil-rights groups with a responsibility to articulate the wishes of the immigrant community, it was a public-relations catastrophe. Serious immigration advocates should disassociate themselves from the radicals and their anti-American message. La Raza chooses not to.
Instead, the letter puts forward a patriotic public image, which is interesting in light of an internal e-mail by a La Raza staffer. The e-mail cautions members against an amendment to the Senate immigration reform bill that would provide grants to immigrants interested in learning English and American history and organizations that offer those courses. Sponsored by Sen. Lamar Alexander, the amendment would also allow immigrants proficient in English to apply for citizenship in four years instead of five.
The Alexander amendment, wrote Michele Waslin, La Raza's director of Immigration Policy Research, is "very problematic." Of the three "big problems," she notes, is that "while it doesn't overtly mention assimilation, it is very strong on the patriotism and traditional american [sic] values language in a way which is potentially dangerous to our communities."
"Very strong on the patriotism" is an apt description of La Raza's letter today -- even much stronger than anything in the Alexander amendment. Behind closed doors, however, patriotism is "potentially dangerous."
Once the e-mail leaked, La Raza claimed its position on the Alexander amendment was "unclearly communicated," as reported by CNN. To which host Lou Dobbs remarked: "So, in other words, they're backtracking and running from this as fast as they possibly can?" Of course. The National Council of La Raza is interested in protecting only its own image.

The Alexander amendment, wrote Michele Waslin, La Raza's director of Immigration Policy Research, is "very problematic." Of the three "big problems," she notes, is that "while it doesn't overtly mention assimilation, it is very strong on the patriotism and traditional american [sic] values language in a way which is potentially dangerous to our communities."

Every Senator and Congressman should read this. I wonder what they would have to say then. This is vile language. The whole organization should be banned for "social terriousm."!

The whole organization of National Council of La Raza should be SHUT DOWN as a 501 C 3 Tax Exempt "Charity" in the United States.

No tax deductibility for "corporate Globalist contributions", no money.

No money, no Janet Maguira on Lou Dobbs; no "La Raza" and no "illegals".

This organization is a racketering organization that functions through more than 300 state "affiliates" that network and find "jobs" for anyone that looks like a "la raza" and is not a citizen of the United States.

This is a racist organization promoting Hispanic White Supremacy in the United States using American Tax Payer Dollars to do it.

Where is our Justice Department?

Oooh, sorry, silly me...Alberto Gonzales said at his luncheon sponsored by the National Council of La Raza when he was appointed Attorney General and head of the US Justice Department (sponsored means they bought the food, rented the room, purchased the plaque they handed him with your tax dollars)...."I stand on the shoulders of the National Council of La Raza".

Really?

Ooops.

Their sponsors are racist to put the kind of money into this organization that they know is sponsoring, recruiting and advocating violations of US Immigration, US Labor and US CIVIL RIGHTS laws for the advancement of a Caucasian Spanish-Speaking Race in the United States.

Where is our Justice Department?

Oooh....standing on the shoulders of the organization perpetuating such evil nonsense in violation of American Law.

We need an immediate pull of this organization's tax exempt status and we need it done today.

This is not "charity". This creates the need for charity from the poverty this organization is creating through its "advocacy" of foreign nationals in the United States illegally.

This is "La Raza" in its purest sense and vilest form and is an illegal racist organization surviving off American Tax Dollars.

And that's the TRUTH about the National Council of La Raza.

They should not be on Lou Dobbs, spewing their spin...they should be in jail for violating US Immigration Law, US Labor Law and US CIVIL RIGHTS Law.

Isn't La Raza one of the mob demonstrator organizations that's called for ethnic cleansing and wholesale homocide of Americans residing in AZTland (or whatever the hell it's called)?

They're not just a lunatic fringe group, they're a subversive terrorist organization that openly calls for the violent overthrow of the US constitutional government.

"Well, excuse me, Senator McCain. Would you like me to step aside so you can praise em and grovel to 'em so more?"