Posted on 10/16/2004 3:26:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Upset by the message on ProjectUSA billboards in Kansas City, KS, a small group of race-identity activists held a news conference yesterday in front of one of them to complain and demand their removal.
Tino Camacho, reports the Kansas City Star, president of the local chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), called the billboards “racist.”
"We want the people (ProjectUSA) held accountable because of all the fear that they have created," said Mr. Camacho. "This is very, very … insulting to our community.”
A reporter for the Associated Press called ProjectUSA yesterday looking for a response to the accusations of racism and was given the standard response: "ProjectUSA is a group for any American who cares about the future of the country. LULAC, on the other hand, is a group for Latinos. Who's racist?"
And who's doing the insulting, for that matter?
By asserting while speaking as the head of a Latino organization that the mere mention of immigration law enforcement causes fear in his commmunity, Mr. Camacho equates Latino with illegal -- an insult to Hispanic-Americans he would be the first to condemn had, say, Rep. Moore's opponent, Kris Kobach, made it.
However, LULAC is indifferent, at best, to Hispanic-Americans as Americans. LULAC's loyalties, to put it frankly, lie with Mexico.
In April 2004, LULAC was a key participant at a conference, co-hosted in Mexico City by the Mexican Senate, at which Mexican foreign minister Luis Ernesto Derbez made it explicit: the transnational cause of Mexicans supercedes American sovereignty:
"We know that the best way to contribute to the well-being of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans is by strengthening the community's efforts to organize, by encouraging the exchange of ideas between its leaders, and by identifying a shared agenda, around which Mexicans of both sides of the border can unite."
In April 2003, Mr. Camacho was in attendence at another meeting in Mexico, this time with Mexican President Vicente Fox. A description of the meeting in LULAC's newsletter makes it clear the shared agenda the Mexican foreign minister envisions is political:
"Recently, the LULAC board members...had the privilege of meeting with President Vicente Fox in Mexico City. We also held high-level meetings with key Mexican officials to discuss important issues concerning Mexican-Americans, such as immigration and the expansion of Mexico’s matrícula program to document Mexican nationals residing in the United States. The meeting was very successful and we believe will lead to an ongoing dialogue which will help improve the lives of Latinos in both the United States and Mexico." [LULAC News March/April, 2003 (.pdf)]
Last month, Dennis Moore demonstrated his willingness to help Mexico and its race-identity allies achieve their aims, voting on Sept. 14 in favor of Mexico's matricula program. Congessman Moore even accepted an award in May from LULAC, presented to him, in fact, by Tino Camacho. He has it posted it on the House of Representatives' website.
Using the divisive language of the discredited race-hustlers at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Congressman Moore attacked the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) earlier this month, and publicly called on challenger Kris Kobach "to distance himself" from FAIR.
In our view, Congressman Moore should distance himself from LULAC, before the voters in Kansas distance him from Washington.
Tino Camacho told the Kansas City Star that he wants the ProjectUSA billboards "out of our community." We want to know just what community he is talking about. I called Rep. Moore's campaign headquarters in Kansas at 913 888 4838 assuming the recipient of a LULAC award might know what LULAC meant by "our community." I posed the question, but haven't yet received a response.
+== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+
"Congressman Moore is a public servant who hasn't forgotten the people who voted for him. He maintains a bond with the common people. He always comes back to the Latino community to update us on what he has accomplished in Congress."
Florentino Camacho, Jr., a past LULAC state director. Lulac Honors Moore With Cesar Chavez Community Service Award, May 10, 2004
[accomplished for whom? -ed.]
Contributions may be mailed to: ProjectUSA POB 15641 Washington, DC 20003
Mexicanista bump!
...group of race-identity activists? What the...
Whats the polling showing on Moore's race?
If the Mexicans like Mexico so much, why are they coming here? These LULAC folks would do better to integrate themselves into the American community.
LOL! A racist crying "racism"!
Good tag line, TSR!
What exactly did the billboard say? And can we get them in the rest of the country?
First of all, Camacho is a cochino. Since he is looking for an insult, I thought I would give him one. Cochino.
Second of all, the MEXICAN illegals have created quite a bit of fear themselves, the way they are calling press conferences and demonstrating, demanding drivers licenses here in California. As if they had not already thrown this state into bankruptcy by sucking up all the freebies they can.
Third of all, who are they to hold legitimate citizens "accountable?" EXCUSE ME?
And, fourth of all, not only do these loco LULACs disregard our national security but anyone who is not a member of their ethnic group, the wonderful LA RAZA.
Son cochinos locos. Go ahead and call me a racist or ban me. What the chingon do I care?
Response: And if they do not integrate themselves into the American community?
race-identity activists - ROFLOL!!!
Sounds like a terrorist to me.
Tommy Chong (cheech & chong) sang it best... Mexican-americans like education so they go to night school and take spanish and get a B.
Then, I'd just have to ask why stay here? I have no problem with the system accommodating everyone, but the whole point is our system already does that and doesn't need changing.
Does anyone think that Mexicans and Americans on "both sides of the border" have the same agenda? And if these Mexicans want to become Americans why would they care what the folks at home think, much less "unite" with them?
ping
So lemme get this straight...
Property is destroyed in the name of free speech? And what about the speech rights of thos owning and placing the ad?
That is why we have COURTS, Mexican goons, so that you can protest to a legal body when you don't agree. This is NOT Mexico and thie is NOT Burger King. You CANNOT have it your way.
Did they check the legal staus of the guy who tore the sign down? Nooooooooooooooooooooooo...
If "hate speech" ever becomes outlawed, there won't be enough prisons in this country for those folks.
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