La Raza Facts

Michelle Malkin
July 9, 2008 12:00 A.M.

http://article.nationalreview.com/362925/la-raza-facts/michelle-malkin?page=1

15 things you should know.

Only in America could critics of a group called The Race be labeled racists. Such is the
triumph of left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors
have succeeded in redefining all opposition as hate.

Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in San Diego at the annual
conference of the National Council of La Raza, the Latino organization whose name is
Spanish for, yes, The Race. Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a
group of white people who called themselves that? No matter. The presidential
candidates and the media have legitimized The Race as a mainstream ethnic lobbying
group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The unvarnished truth is that the
group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars and milks PC
politics to undermine our sovereignty.

Here are 15 things you should know about The Race:

15. The Race supports drivers licenses for illegal aliens.

14.The Race demands in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not
available to law-abiding U.S. citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.

13. The Race vehemently opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts

between local, state, and federal authorities.

12. The Race opposes a secure fence on the southern border.

11. The Race joined the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed

lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds from entering immigration information into a key
national crime database and to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.

10. The Race opposed the state of Oklahomas tough immigration-enforcement-first

laws, which cut off welfare to illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions, and
strengthened local-federal cooperation and information sharing.

9. The Race joined other open-borders, anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent

Proposition 227, Californias bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming
law.

8. The Race bitterly protested common-sense voter ID provisions as an absolute

disgrace.

7. The Race has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every
turn.

6. Former Race president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clintons Hispanic outreach adviser,
said this: U.S. English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks. He was referring
to U.S. English, the nations oldest, largest citizens action group dedicated to
preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States. The Race
also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government
on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms illegal and
amnesty.

5. The Race gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led
by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan
(MEChA). The late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as
a radical racist group . . . one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which
has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist
nation out of the American West.

4. The Race is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration-

enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable news networks to keep
immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves in addition to pushing for
Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes. The New York Times reported that
current Race president Janet Murguia believes hate speech should not be tolerated,
even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights.

3. The Race sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your
public tax dollars (at least $8 million in federal education grants). The schools include
Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia
Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in
Los Angeles, whose principal inveighed: We dont want to drink from a White water
fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting
rain in our aqueducts. We dont need a White water fountain . . . ultimately the White
way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our
own destruction.

2. The Race has perfected the art of the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing
relentlessly to lower home-loan standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in
federal mortgage counseling grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks, and
partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.

1. The Race thrives on ethnic supremacy and the elite sheeples unwillingness to
call it what it is. As historian Victor Davis Hanson observes: [The] organizations very
nomenclature The National Council of La Raza is hate speech to the core. Despite all
the contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the meaning
of race in Spanish, not the people and thats precisely why we dont hear of
something like The National Council of the People, which would not confer the buzz
notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism.

The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza.