Posted on 07/12/2006 11:34:24 AM PDT by Spiff
So, Karl Rove gave his "We are all Americans" speech to the National Council of La Raza--The Race--yesterday. Today, my syndicated column digs into the millions of dollars in Bush administration federal education grants The Race has received for its nationwide charter school initiative.
It’s bad enough the White House lent its prestige to The Race’s annual conference. But did you know the Bush administration has forked over millions of federal tax dollars directly to The Race?
According to GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood of Georgia, The Race snapped up $15.2 million in federal grants last year alone and more than $30 million since 1996. Undisclosed amounts went to get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions. The U.S. Department of Education funneled nearly $8 million in taxpayer grants to the group for a nationwide charter schools initiative.
You may remember the reconquista school in Los Angeles whose principal teaches ethnic separatism along with Aztec math. The Race was a co-sponsor of that school with extremist activists from MECHA. Remember this interview with the principal of the school, La Academia Semillas del Pubelo:
We don’t 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 don’t need a White water fountain. So the whole issue of segregation and the whole issue of the Civil Rights Movement is all within the box of White culture and White supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction.
Turns out there are more where that one came from, folks.
I have found dozens of other publicly-subsidized charter schools sponsored by The Race and funded with our money, including:
*Aztlan Academy in Tuscon, Arizona. According to The Race, the school’s success rests on “Aztlan's ability to integrate a meaningful Chicano Studies program into their lives, language, and academics, as a means of developing their intellects as well as their pride and self-esteem.” The school’s name--a reference to a mythical swath of the vast Southwestern U.S. expanse, which Latino activists claim is their rightful homeland and which they seek to reconquer for Mexico--says it all.
*Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Arizona. Who needs the three R’s? At Mexicayotl, it’s all about the three M’s: me, me, me! The school’s program is “structured and developed around the concepts of identity, culture, and language.” Second mission: supporting local ethnic lobbying efforts “to right social injustices by educating the community and helping create social change.” Under “greatest achievements,” the school’s website lists its participation in a “Peace & Dignity Run;” its visit from Rigoberta Menchu (the Marxist academic fraud from Guatemala who lied her way to a Nobel Peace Prize); and its sponsorship of
the local annual Día de los Muertos (the Mexican holiday).
*The Dolores Huerta Preparatory High School in Pueblo, Colorado. It’s named after the far-Left Latina labor union activist who recently railed that “Republicans hate Latinos,” praised illegal alien marchers, and screeched that “We didn’t cross the borders, the borders crossed us” in a hate-filled tirade before Arizona students.
*Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn. Board of Directors member Louis Mendoza, an activist Chicano Studies professor, pushed the school to lobby for the federal DREAM Act (providing in-state tuition discounts to illegal alien students not available to legal non-residents). The school’s website features one flag on its front page: the Mexican flag.
The White House will tell you that The National Council of The Race is a “moderate,” mainstream civil rights group. But there’s nothing “moderate” about The Race’s advocacy of driver’s licenses and in-state tuition discounts for illegal aliens. Or its opposition to strengthening security for identity documents and improving cooperation on immigration enforcement between state, local, and federal enforcement immigration officials. Or its all-out war on the House GOP’s border security and enforcement-first bill passed last December.
President Bush pays lip service to immigration enforcement and assimilation, while the White House sends Karl Rove to make nice with the separatist leaders of The Race and the Bush Education Department showers our tax dollars on radical Reconquista schools. It doesn’t add up.
Unless, of course, you’re using Aztec math.
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So now the administration isn't just refusing to enforce existing immigration law and protect the border but they are actively subverting both by supporting La Raza financially.
If the dems were doing this you wouldn't be able to think straight for all the howling that would be going on from the GOP.
This is disgraceful.
If they were all arab or soviets, it would be obvious that they have infiltrated our country with the intent of overthrowing our government and society and either killing or deporting all of US! Because they look like millions of other americans in the Southwest and because nobody in Washington has any idea of what is put in spanish language TV or radio, their open campaign to reconquer the US for Mexico (which they believed is the Aztlan Empire pre-Spaniards) goes on with our tacit approval and occasional funding.
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BTTT!!!
Disgraceful? Getting awefully close to that whole "aid and comfort" thing is how I'd term it.
I meant that the fact that members of the GOP aren't going nuts over this and screaming from rooftops is disgraceful.
With respect to the administration I would agree with you.
Unbelievable!!!!!!
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When I heard of the first of these schools, located in the Los Angeles area, I was disgusted. Now I'm just resigned to the fact that this nation is finished.
If it has come to the place where we are going to finance racist separatists, then the nation our founding fathers set up for us, no longer exists.
What the hell are our leaders thinking?
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True.
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It's hard not to be, isn't it.
But you never know what could happen.
If we actually taught the principles we were founded on to the youth -- immigrant kids or native born -- it could turn around quick. But the liberals who were not and are not immigrants are the ones who have done this.
It is not the immigrant's fault.
Ummmm....doesn't Congress fork over the money?
Nope, I didn't. Not surprising, though. The U.S. gov't giving taxpayer dollars directly to our enemies is common practice.
So is FR. We've got way too may so-called "FReepers" fighting conservatives and promoting liberal garbage like La Raza here. The Republican Party has lost its moorings, the United States of America has forgotten its heritage, and Free Republic has jettisoned its original conservative agenda and fallen into "mission creep". Not a good time for conservatives. I go between just becoming resigned to these facts or standing up and fighting for the cause.
They're thinking about how to stay in power as long as possible and how to make boatloads of cash while they're there. All other considerations (like upholding their oaths of office) are secondary. ....at best.
No successful strategy starts with a tactical loss. I totally understand the emotion behind it but while we both want the country to have to suffer for its inaction, the lesson we would want the rest of the country to learn from its suffering would not end up being the right one. The only answer is to work harder and smarter to turn things in the right direction.
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