Posted on 10/03/2004 11:03:50 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
National LULAC head, speaking to NAACP convention, says both share goals.
The goals of blacks and Hispanics are the same and that's why the League of United Latin American Citizens and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People should work together, LULAC National President Hector Flores said Friday.
Flores was the featured speaker at the state NAACP conference luncheon at the Ramada Inn Bayfront. The conference runs through the weekend.
A priority for both organizations is equality in education, and since the historic 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education, there have been few strides toward that goal, Flores said. The case ended legal racial segregation.
"Fifty years after Brown vs. Board, we have de facto segregation in Texas," he said.
He discussed an early desegregation case from the 1940s in California, where Gonzalo Mendez rented a farm. Flores said that when Mendez went to put his children in the local school, some weren't allowed to attend because they were not light enough to pass for white. The case ended segregation in California before Brown vs. Board of Education.
Flores said the case was a perfect example of both organizations working together. Everyone was involved in the cause, regardless of race or ethnicity.
"That case tied all the groups, LULAC, NAACP, ACLU and the Hispanic community together," he said. "The challenge of the NAACP and LULAC is to build a nation of opportunity and to strengthen America by joining both communities."
Partnership
Gary Bledsoe, state NAACP president, said Flores' vision and work toward both organizations' goals and partnership would come to pass.
"Blacks and Hispanics, we'll be the majority," Bledsoe said. "When you fight for Latinos you fight for African Americans and when you fight for African Americans you fight for Latinos."
Ruth Ross, local NAACP member, said she was looking forward to opening the channels of communication between both organizations locally.
"I'm glad to know that LULAC is working with the NAACP," Ross said. "We don't have LULAC working with the NAACP in Corpus Christi very much. Maybe this will help."
Educational equality
Nicholas Adame, president of LULAC Council 1, is also hopeful. Something that both organizations could work on locally is educational equality, he said.
"Dr. Flores referred to LULAC and the NAACP at the forefront of civil rights," Adame said. "Locally there hasn't been much. Maybe this will open up a window for us to join forces."
Gonzalo Tamez, vice president of LULAC Council 4444, agreed.
"We both know we are working for the same goal," Tamez said. "Anything dealing with civil rights and education, you can be sure that we will be working together."
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The Enemy Within!
Texas Ping!
As Hispanics gain population and political power Blacks will be marginalized with the "Victim" Community.
The Mexicans shouldn't because one of these days, blacks (not the thugs who collect the gold) will realize that Mexican criminal illegal aliens are destroying any future the blacks and their children might have. The claim that wetbacks take "only jobs that Americans won't" is pure propaganda and simply isn't true.
Blacks and Mexicans have very different interests, both in the long term and the short term!
This is a stated purpose of encouraging mass illegal immigration specifically fron non-white countries, so that a racially divided and determined opposition group can be formed that would be far larger than the black minority would ever be. And, at the same time, carry a history of grievance towards white America.
For anyone who's interested, they can read about it in William Hawkins brilliant book, Importing Revolution: Open Borders and the Radical Agenda
The racist Mexican separatist legal organization MALDEF was created primarily for this purpose by the Ford Foundation and Sargent Shriver in the late 1960's (and um, those of you in California might reflect on just who Mr. Shriver's offspring is married to), and earlier mainstream hispanic organizations such as LULAC have been coopted into this effort.
The Amazon link is one place to buy the book. Another link which carries this book and many others which will make clear the political goals of mass illegal immigration from Mexico and other Third World countries is here: American Immigration Control Foundation .
Page down to see Hawkins book.
Exactly, that is the reason the Rainbow coalition is only concerned about blacks and the same with NAACP. I wonder how strong LULAC is? I know they had/have a chapter in our county but it's one or two old timers, the rest are gone and the young don't care because they are Americans and don't feel any different than the rest of us.
Sounds like some desperate moves are being made here. La Raza doesn't care about any race but it's own. As the new majority takes over in areas, the blacks will not be given (equality for example) what they were getting from the old majority.
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