In 2006 and again in 2008, the Latino group known as La Raza (The Race) was given $15 million in U.S. federal grants. La Raza also received an additional $4 million in so-called 'earmarks' tucked into the 2005 Housing Bill, which our Congress passed and President Bush signed. Considering the ethnocentric agenda of La Raza, in giving federal funds to this group, the American taxpayer is being forced to support a race-based separatist organization. La Raza openly supports pushing all but Latino Americans out of a portion of the United States (i.e. ethnic cleansing), they call for 'Reconquista' or the re-conquest of the American Southwest by Mexico, and the establishment of 'Atzlan' which is the utopian all-Latino version of the American Southwestern states. La Raza’s motto is “For the Race, everything, outside the Race…Nothing!” Past keynote speakers at the annual National Council of La Raza Conference have included George Bush, Karl Rove, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Bill Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama. The fact that U.S. Senators and Presidents have addressed the group, is a strong indication that this nation is being subverted at the very highest levels. If La Raza was a white supremacist group with equally deep pockets, the U.S. government would place them on a terrorist watch list, infiltrate them with undercover FBI agents, and subject them to constant harassment by the IRS. Eventually, the group's leaders would be jailed and the group itself would be rendered irrelevant. However, because La Raza is a Latino supremacist group, Congress offers them financial support. One of La Raza's biggest supporters is Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV). In 2001, Reid asked the Senate Appropriations Committee for $5 million to help further their goals. That same year, La Raza gave Sen. Reid their Capital Award for "his commitment to advance legislation priorities of the Latino community." Reid in turn praised La Raza by saying: "La Raza is like the biblical David, fighting all these Goliaths." Taxpayer funds are also funneled to La Raza through the Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, and even NASA. Tax dollars are hidden in these government agencies, earmarked to be specifically given away to La Raza. Inside the halls of Congress, the practice is known as discretionary funding...In the real world it is known as money laundering. In 2008, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) earmarked an additional $20 million for La Raza. He hid the appropriation in the FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeowners Retentions Act of 2008. In 2005, $7.9 million was stolen from the American taxpayers and given out to Latino-only charter schools in the form of U.S. Department of Education grants. La Raza operates 100 such schools across the country. The following is a list of a few of those schools: -La Academia Semillas del Pueblo (Los Angeles) These schools teach Latino culture only, the Spanish language, the re-conquest of the American Southwest, ethnic cleansing and the establishment of the mythical Atzlan, and even Aztec math...Again, all taught on your dime! According to the Capital Research Center, La Raza has assets well in excess of $50 million. This same group reports that La Raza spends about $1 million annually on lobbying and fundraising. Can you imagine the Congress appropriating money to the Ku Klux Klan? While those scenarios both sound absurd, the support that our elected officials are giving to the racist group known as La Raza is no different. One has to wonder, if the KKK offered extremely cheap labor to unscrupulous American businesses and potential votes to equally unscrupulous politicians...Would Congress fund whites-only charter schools?
-Atzlan Academy (Tucson, AZ)
-Mexicayotl Academy (Nogales, AZ)
-The Dolores Huerta Prepatory High School (Pueblo, CO)
-Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School (St. Paul, MN)
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"La Raza" explained Part 1
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Published in 1925, La Raza Cosmica (The Cosmic Race) is an essay written by late Mexican philosopher, secretary of education, and 1929 presidential candidate, Jose Vasconcelos to express the ideology of a future “fifth race” in the Americas; an agglomeration of all the races in the world with no respect to color or number to erect a new civilization: Universopolis. As he explains in his literary work, armies of people would then go forth around the world professing their knowledge. Vasconcelos continues to say that the people of the Iberian regions of the Americas (that is to say, the parts of the continent colonized by Portugal and Spain) have the territorial, racial, and spiritual factors necessary to initiate the “universal era of humanity”.
"La Raza" explained Part 2
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Claiming that the Darwinist ideologies are “scientific” theories only created to validate, explain, and justify ethnic superiority and to repress others, Vasconcelos attempts to refute these theories and goes on to recognize his words as being an ideological effort to improve the cultural morale of a “depressed race” by offering his optimistic theory of the future development of a cosmic race.
“La raza cosmica”, in English “the cosmic race”, embodies the notion that traditional, exclusive concepts of race and nationality can be transcended in the name of humanity’s common destiny. It originally referred to a movement by Mexican intellectuals during the 1920s who pointed out that Latin Americans have the blood of all the world’s races (White Europeans, Asian-descended Native-Americans and Black Africans), transcending the peoples of the “old world”.
How in the world do they make it right? to support a Racist Group? This GROUP is working to undermine and take over U.S.A.? AND ITS A 1 RACE POPULATION EVERYONE ELSE LEAVE OR BE KILLED.How does our CORRUPT POLITITIANS get away with supportting Their CAUSE?AMERICAN TAXPAYERS PAYING SOMEONE TO TAKE OVER AMERICA WOW.REAL AMERICAN WAKEUP TIME WHAT HAS TO BE DONE HAS TO BE DONE NOW. AN AMERICAN>> LETS QUIT GIVEING AMERICA AWAY NOW>>>>THINKS
"La Raza" explained Part 3
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It has come, often in its shortened version “La Raza”, to refer to the mixed race people of Latin America, i.e., primarily mestizos, mulattos, and zambos or all three combined. Vasconcelos also used the expression, “la raza de bronce” (”the bronze race”), in this same sense.
"La Raza openly supports pushing all but Latino Americans out of a portion of the United States (i.e. ethnic cleansing), they call for 'Reconquista' or the re-conquest of the American Southwest by Mexico, and the establishment of 'Atzlan' which is the utopian all-Latino version of the American Southwestern states."
The statement above is sheer hyperbole. Obviously, people like Gibson who espouse such non sense are not fooling George Bush, Karl Rove, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama or the US Congress.
Can you point out the where on the "National Council of La Raza" (NCLR) they are advocating what you accuse them of?
Doubt it...
Mexica was the word used by the so called "Aztecs" to describe themselves.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexica
US State Dept on Mexico ethnic groups: Indian-Spanish (mestizo) 60%, Indian 30%, Caucasian 9%, other 1%
www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35749.htm
The Mexica ("Aztec") said they had originated in a placed they called "Aztlan" - perhaps thats why the European (Spanish) illegal aliens called them "Aztecs". That sacred city and the original land of Aztlan would have been in what is today the Southwestern United States.
Recent archaeological evidence support the Mexica stories of their origins.
www.archaeology.org/0903/abstracts/cuauhtinchan.html
Harvard University has concluded a 5 year study on the Map of Cuauhtinchan No. 2 confirming the Mexica creation story.
www.drclas.harvard.edu/revistaweb/1960s/booktalk/jones
Even the mainstream media picked this story up.
www.marketwatch.com/story/ancient-map-offers-key-to-mesoamerican-history-2009-08-24
I can understand how a western mind can hear a term like "La Raza" and have images of the Nazi concept of "Das Volk" conjured up in his/her mind.
However, the 1925 essay that is the origins of the the term "La Raza Cosmica" (The Cosmic Race) was written in response to the social Darwinism espoused by the Lothrop Stoddard and Madison Grant in the 1920s.
"La Raza" (shortened version) refers to the mixed race people of Latin America. Mestizos, mulattos, and zambos or all three combined.
As such, comparisons to to the Nazi "Das Volk" concept or KKK are absurd as the author is speaking of a combination of 3 different races in varying degrees.
Latin Americans ("Latinos) are not a race anyway, they are an ethnicity. Latinos can actually be of any race.
Again, can you point out exactly where on the "National Council of La Raza" (NCLR) website they proclaim the hyperbole you accuse them of?
nclr.org
YOU LIE!
I see that Human Being, La Raza's Minister of Propaganda, has stopped by to post his biased, convoluted, and desperate spin on the facts in the article that shine the spotlight on the racist organization that he represents.
I long for the day,when we send these Abssconders packing.It will come.Harry should be swinging by a rope.Treasonist piece of sh.. Mexican nationals are one of the main reasons this Country is going broke.
Ask yourselfs this question.And I have givin this a lot of thought.What have these people done for this Country.I cant think of one positve thing.Only negitive.Its time for them leave.
And our perverse politicians need to go as well;Good Ole Hsrry is up for re-election in 2010.Bye-Bye Hsrry Scumbag.
I have a few questions for Human Being: Why is it that La Raza feels it has to change the USA? Aren't Mexico and the rest of the nations south of our border in need of 'their help'? Doesn't the Cosmic Race inhabit all of South America and a third of North America? I am reminded of the fable of The Grasshopper and the Ant only in this version the grasshopper steals the ants food then eats the ant before it dies.
The actions of the tan klan are very clear, promote one race over another. That in itself is racist. If whites put a similar organization together to promote white interests there would racist cries of outrage. Why is it only whites can't have race interests when every other group has a carte blanc pass on their racial agendas?
Human Being would say it's because of thousands of years of white dominance and repression, in other words, it's payback time.
NCLR has never supported and does not endorse the notion of a “Reconquista” or “Aztlán.” The statement “Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada,” is not NCLR’s motto. This statement is not and has never been the motto of NCLR.
Critics also argue that NCLR’s programs only serve Hispanics. This is simply not true. NCLR and its programs are covered by civil rights laws. For example, in 2006, as part of NCLR’s homeownership program, NCLR Affiliates served about 29,000 clients. Almost 20% were White and approximately 12% were Black.
While it is true that one meaning of “raza” in Spanish is indeed “race,” in Spanish, as in English and any other language, words can and do have multiple meanings. As noted in several online dictionaries, “La Raza” means “the people” or “the community.” Translating “La Raza” as “the race” is not only inaccurate,it is factually incorrect. “Hispanic” is not a race. Hispanics can be and are members of any and all races.
@ Jerry;
I'm a she...not a he. I do not represent any organization.
I began following the debate over "illegal aliens" about 18 months ago when I became alarmed at the tone. Since then, I have gathered links to reputable sources refuting the most malicious lies used to demonize Latinos.
www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=415
I'm a San Francisco white woman sick of the hatred being heaped upon my Latino neighbors...usually (but not exclusively) by white men (few women) who fear our nations changing demographics.
Americas changing demographics cannot be blamed on Latinos as below replacement white birth rates is a global phenomenon;
nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29Birth-t.html?partner=MOREOVERFEATURES&ei=5040
thenation.com/doc/20080303/joyce
My grandparents were immigrants from Russia. They too faced nativist haters upon arrival in this land of immigrants. When you haters bash todays Latino immigrants...it's them I think about...
@ ratbstard;
The same questions have been raised about every single immigrant group to set foot upon Americas shores.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_nothing_party
What's new?
@ Jimi;
Fact is, there was similar Irish, Italian, Croatian, Greek, Russian etc organizations that defended the rights of immigrants from those lands in generations past.
Even today, there are Italian-American, Irish-American, Croatian-American, Russian-American, etc organizations whose explicit mission is to advance the interests of those communities...it's just that they are no longer composed largely of immigrants.
@ Dave Gibson;
You are comparing "La Raza" to the KKK, so tell the forum; how many LYNCHINGS is "La Raza" responsible for?
Anyone who considers the SPLC a reputable source is a FOOL!
Human Being, let me get this straight. You think it is completely fair that a group of people that broke our laws by sneaking into this country should be rewarded citizenship, even though there are lots of people that have filled out paperwork, have paid thousands of dollars, learned ENGLISH, and done things the legals way? You really want that? How is that fair?
And despite all of your rantings protecting LaRaza, the bottom line is, it is a hispanics only club. How is that not racist? You have only been doing this for 18 months? It really shows. Perhaps you should look at both sides, then you will EASILY see how illegals have done NOTHING positive for our country. They cost us BILLIONS a year just by being here.
If someone knocked on your door, and asked to stay, eat your food, take your job, and bring their family with them would you do it? I didn't think so. Think!!
@ Human Being
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_nothing_party: Are you kidding me? Wikipedia as a reference? Besides that I'll admit there has always been resistance to immigration in large numbers but the numbers that have come in the past 20 years are greater than all that came before!
What's new?: All the social services handouts! Pre 1965 immigrants made it on their own or went home. What say you we give these people a path to citizenship on the condition that they are NOT elligable for any govt. handouts until the 3rd or 4th generation?
Another fact that many people don't even know about is the the Mexican government government, out of the goodness of the heart, dontate spanish language booke (histry no doubt) fpr the purpose of helping Spanish speaking students learn English. Whaaaaaa! Really, I am not kidding. There was a big story abou7t that very thing in one of the papers, possibly Denver Post, last year on this subject.
Ralph brings up an important point. The involvement of Mexico, in fifth columnist activities in the U.S. Remember, the idea that a nation that cannot even control drug lords, is influencing policy in the U.S., is not a savory one. Some of you La Raza and open borders supporters, have got to be lunatics or you have the the same fifth columnist tendencies that the Mexican government has towards America. If you love Mexico so much, go live there and leave Americans alone. NO ONE WILL MISS YOU. NO ONE.
I love this article - it wonderfully highlights the fact that anyone can publish any sort of garbage on the internet and people take it as gospel, according to their preconceived notions of reality.
Hey, I heard Glen Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. There's actually a website devoted to this news item.
trash. utter and absolute trash. if you're going to defame or critique someone at least get their names right so you don't look like a complete idiot when you're crucifying them.
were did you get your sources for this article...because alot of the things you said arent true
LOL.. that was awesome!! Specially the racist part. Am still laughing my behind off. Nah, "La Reconquista", really... OK. Let's be serious for a sec. There are extremist groups everywhere, but yet I do not look at every "white person" and assume they would like to beat me, hang me, and then burn me. That would be... crazy, for lack of a more p.c. word. Heck I'd be scared of my own cousins, my church, and even my own girl. Numbers are nice, as they are put here, hey... numbers don't know colors, if am broke and you are broke we both gonna both feel it. Sorry, guys I don't hate whites nor do I want a "Reconquista" or the Atzlan thing (I'd have to send Dad away). Please, I've got better things to worry about: Rent, Taxes, Property Values, Job Security, Our Troops (Am a Vet), My Kid's School, etc. And the KKK... c'mon now, I could never support an Anti-American group that goes against everything this country was founded on, nor could I burn crosses upside down, or up, or sideways.
La Raza openly supports pushing all but Latino Americans out of a portion of the United States (i.e. ethnic cleansing), they call for 'Reconquista' or the re-conquest of the American Southwest by Mexico, and the establishment of 'Atzlan' which is the utopian all-Latino version of the American Southwestern states.
Yeah, and Barack Obama is hiding his birth certificate, too. I read it on the internet so it must be true.
Aztlan - oh puhleeze. LOL. Isn't that country located right next to Elbonia?
The cracker who published this nonsense is as silly as any Aztlanista.
ok, now onto Latinos, Hispanics, and Chriss. "Cracker"?? C'mon now, then you are no better than well "them" (the miss-guided souls). Respect starts with Respect and that goes for all races, I could be in Iraq and if I get slapped with a shoe for no reason at all...well lets just say my shoe is not just a shoe, but a heavy Boot with a nice Steel Toe plate in it. Am sure when I hit is gonna hurt much more, and all because the dude did not respect me to begin with. Respect me and I'll Respect you.
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