Thread: Sotomayor's Ties to La Raza by Tom Tancredo

Sotomayor's Ties to La Raza

Friday, July 31, 2009

by Tom Tancredo

Last week, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy spoke out against critics of Sonia Sotomayor as playing “racial politics.â€

Good article. I wish more people would understand the fact that Sotomayor is the worst person to be selected for the supreme court and that LaRaza is nothing more than a racist group out to destroy our culture.

The Cosmic Race
By Mark Krikorian, July 29, 2009

The National Council of La Raza has just wrapped up its annual conference in Chicago. While I think Tom Tancredo was engaging in hyperbole when he described La Raza as "a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses" (that describes instead MEChA and the Brown Berets), there's more to the comparison than people might realize.

La Raza's attempt to explain away their name as meaning "the people" or "the community" instead of "the race" notes correctly, and approvingly, that the phrase was coined by former Mexican secretary of education Jose Vasconcelos in the 1920s as "La Raza Cosmica."

But maybe they didn't look closely enough at the theoretical underpinnings of the concept. Here's what Guillermo Lux and Maurilio Vigil wrote about it in Aztlan: Essays on the Chicano Homeland:

The concept of La Raza can be traced to the ideas and writings of Jose Vasconcelos, the Mexican theorist who developed the theory of la raza cosmica (the cosmic or super race) at least partially as a minority reaction to the Nordic notions of racial superiority.

Vasconelos developed a systematic theory which argued that climatic and geographic conditions and mixture of Spanish and Indian races created a superior race. The concept of La Raza connotes that the mestizo is a distinct race and not Caucasian, as is technically the case.

In other words, La Raza really is the Master Race, but rather than based on notions of racial purity, La Raza's inherent, biological superiority is based on its hybridity, on the mixing in Latin America of, in Vasconcelos's words, "the black, the Indian, the Mongol, and the white."

La Raza tries to whitewash (you should pardon the expression) this by writing that "this is an inclusive concept, meaning that Hispanics share with all other peoples of the world a common heritage and destiny."

Not really; what it really means is that Hispanics, and specifically Mestizos, are superior to those of us unfortunate enough not to be part of the cosmic race.

So, "der Nationalrat des Volkes" is not so far off after all.

http://www.cis.org/Krikorian/MeaningOfLaRaza

I don't think I'll be reading this in any NYC newspaper.

If this all pertained to the KKK or any Neo Nazi organization,not only whites but blacks and Hispanics alike would be creating a huge fuss (including our government).

So what is so different in the LaRaza (The Race)They promote the same things!

Originally Posted by uniteasone

If this all pertained to the KKK or any Neo Nazi organization,not only whites but blacks and Hispanics alike would be creating a huge fuss (including our government).

So what is so different in the LaRaza (The Race)They promote the same things!

This is what we call "reverse racism" which is okay for us minorities. See only the white people can be "racist."

According to Merriam-Webster Racism: 1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
Sounds like La Raza to me.

Only way we can challenge these groups and be taken seriously is by creating a diverse organization to expose and counter attack. It has to be diverse and not catering to one race or ethnicity.

Its the ignorance in America along with guilt that allows us to be divided. "Together we stand, and divided we fall." What happen to that? For all of us that really want to live the Amercian dream and pass on those values generation to generation, we must take a stand in the political world just like these racist and facistically motivated organizations.

WE ARE THE REAL CHANGE!

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