The Race- Organization on the defensive over its name

LATINO CONVENTION:
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA
Organization on the defensive over its name



By Hiram Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

July 15, 2008

DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO – The National Council of La Raza spends most of its time protecting and advancing the rights of Latinos through advocacy and community work. But as it wraps up its convention downtown, it has found itself defending its name.


Advertisement That's because activists who oppose illegal immigration are saying in e-mails, during street protests and through the media that “La Razaâ€

[quote]'Hispanic' is an ethnicity, not a race. . . . Hispanics can be and are members of any and all races.â€

sORRY, JANET...but since you grew up in a world of Mexicans and Chicano nationalists......you have no clue....NO ONE outside of Mexican-Americans and Mexicans refer to themselves as "La RAZA"......you won't find or hear South Americans or most Central AMericans (unless they're illegal aliens in the United States) or Cubans collectively refer to themselves as "La RAZA" .....
it's a rather crude, in-your-face term used by Chicano separatists like the founders of NCLR and LULAC. Give it up...you can't hide your racist, ethno-supremacist origins nor intent and "LA RAZA" hypocritically smears anyone that opposes its open-borders, ethno-supremacist, pro-illegal alien agenda as "racist".

Yeah, right! They are masters at obfuscating issues! Raza literally means ethnicity as in la raza mexicana (of mexican descent), la raza italiana (of italian descent), la raza japones (of japanese descent). Ethnicity and race are synonymous in latin countries (and I include portugues, french, italian and spanish speaking countries in this).
Raza does NOT mean people or community in general terms, RAZA is based on your heritage, on the blood of your forefathers, if you will.

[quote]Translating our name as 'the race' is not only inaccurate, it is factually incorrect. 'Hispanic' is an ethnicity, not a race. . . . Hispanics can be and are members of any and all races.â€

They can change their name, but their radical agenda will undoubtedly remain.

[quote="93camaro"][quote]'Hispanic' is an ethnicity, not a race. . . . Hispanics can be and are members of any and all races.â€

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Originally Posted by crazybird

Dugh....everyone KNOWS hispanic isn't a race. Been saying that for how long now? Yet please then explain the "brown pride"..."Anglos go back to Europe"......you can't be white and speak Spanish and be hispanic according to the "minority" status the Latino community has set themselves up to be in. There are many "white" latinos but if they spoke English they'd still be considered one of those dreaded Anglo-Europeans. They have called their very own people "traitors" for speaking English and flying the American flag. If Hispanic is an ethnicity, then why have you called everyone a "racist" since day one? They don't want us because of our skin color BS. They cry "racial profiling" when it comes to ICE raids.

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If only everyone knew Hispanic is not a race we wouldn't be in this mess. Laraza, as has been stated before, only cares about certain "hispanics" but is very willing to use the total number of "hispanics" in the US to their advantage.

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If only everyone knew Hispanic is not a race we wouldn't be in this mess.

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It shocked me the first time I was called a "racist" for this.....my first thought was come-on.....how can I be "racist" against my own race?

So then even with their new defination......we are then right back to "rule of law".......right where we started. :roll:

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“While it is true that one meaning of 'raza' in Spanish is indeed 'race,' . . . words can and do have multiple meanings,â€

I'm Bigtex's wife, my first language is Spanish, and as far as concerns Me, La Raza means The Race.

I guess La Raza's people is trying to explain we all -including the spanish speakers- what that words means? LOL

Your Raza is your race, if you are caucasian,black or asian, no such thing like hispanic, african american, or whatever the misinterpretation of scientific facts is trying to add to the general confusion, exists. If you have to fill paperwork in an Spanish speaker country, where it says Race, you put which race you are, not a community meaning of a political bull%$#...

I was member of Lulac till I saw the first picture of a first of May meeting. It had Che Guevara's picture on the posters... As Argentinean, I have a pretty good idea which kind of guy that was, as well as his ideals. Well... " Ideals"... He was a criminal, mercenary, etc. Maybe Lulac would try to teach me as well who Che Guevara was, maybe, as they are trying to disguise what La Raza means.
As far as I know, La raza is a left handed party, disguised as an Hispanic savior, some sort of protector. Well, certainly, if you are not illegal you don't require their services, and by the way, they DON'T represent the whole spanish speaking population, they represent mostly mexican fellows in troubles, and it's being known among spanish speakers from another countries than Mexico as a higly racist group of people representing just more mexican fellows, as some kind of source of pride you must been seen in bumper stickers in trucks, mexican radio station advertisements, etc.
If you are spanish speaker BUT you don't belong to La Raza, -read this as if you are not Mexican- La Raza proud members plain hate you, diminishes you, segregates you, or just ignores you. Doesn't matter if you stuff yourself with Jalapenos... You don't "belong" to that magnificent, special, gifted group of people.

Maybe the Race people wants to hide, disguise, cover what they really mean, but thanks God we are not stupid. Maybe their conection with Comunist ideals, is something they want to hide as well, but you can run, you can lie, you can cover, but we, anyway, know.

God Bless America, In ENGLISH, as it should be.

SPIN IT ANY WAY YOU WANT JANET. LaRAZA MEANS "THE RACE". It is a racist hate organization just like the kkk.

Finally people are starting to catch on to the organization's agenda which is one sided, divisive, hateful, and anti-American. :evil:

Changing the name from LaRaza to something else isnt going to help at this point. Its like putting lipstick on a pig - its still a pig. :roll: