Dolores Huerta Social activist talks on borders
Posted on 01/20/2007 11:26:43 AM PST by SandRat
Social activist Dolores Huerta told a Tucson audience Friday that people of different ethnicities all originated from the same continent: Africa.
"We are all related, and we are all Africans of different races and colors," she said, referring to the theory of human origins that says all people come from a small group that migrated from Africa 40,000 years ago.
"We should tell the Minutemen, the Aryan Brotherhood, the KKK: 'You're Africans. Get over it,' " she said.
Huerta was the keynote speaker at a Midtown lunch organized by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona to mark the 34th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion.
Huerta, the mother of 11 children, started off talking about women's reproductive rights, but quickly segued to the topic of illegal immigration and called racism a "cancer."
Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with César Chávez, made national headlines in April when she told students, in a speech at Tucson High Magnet School, that "Republicans hate Latinos." State lawmakers summoned Tucson Unified School District officials to Phoenix and TV pundit Bill O'Reilly even weighed in during the controversy that ensued.
"Now it's very popular, fashionable to attack Mexicans. We are the new enemy," Huerta said Friday, calling it ironic to build a wall along the Mexican border to prevent illegal entrants when the Canadian border, a known terrorist entry point into the U.S., is left unfenced.
Huerta ended her remarks by circling back to Planned Parenthood.
"I want to say a big old 'viva' to Planned Parenthood — long live," she said.
"Can we continue our roll for equality for races and people of different sexual orientations?" she asked the crowd. "Sí se puede — yes we can," shouted Huerta, who was joined by audience members in chanting the rallying cry of the farm workers' protests.
Gov. Janet Napolitano also spoke at the luncheon, and said Arizona schools need more informative sex education programs.
"In our state and other states, we are hamstrung by laws about what we can teach our young people," Napolitano said. "I think it's time to go back to the drawing board and get medically accurate information in schools."
The governor said young people must be taught about "healthy relationships" and receive sex education so they can make informed decisions.
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., was recognized with the Morris K. Udall Public Policy Award for his support of women's reproductive rights. Grijalva was in Washington, D.C., but his daughter, TUSD board member Adelita Grijalva, accepted the award on his behalf.
Tucson attorney Dean Brault was given the Sarah Weddington Warrior Award for contributing the most pro bono hours representing young women in abortion-bypass hearings — judicial proceedings for minors who want to terminate pregnancy without telling their parents.
*** Contact reporter Kimberly Matas at 573-4191 or at kmatas@azstarnet.com.
UGGGG! my eyes!!!! someone lit her face on fire and put it out with a garden rake.
screw Leakey.
Deport this Stalinist hag to her homeland then - Zimbabwe.
Then check out Oppenheimer instead: Journey of Manking: The Peopling of the World.
How about telling the Black Panthers and Nation of Islam that too. I saw a lovely meeting of Black so-called leaders on MLK day on C-Span talking about how they are not the minority in the world and that they need to flex their muscle, all their ranting was based on the color of their skin versus mine. Nice!
She looks like Charles Manson with lipstick on.
And yet if someone told them that they are all white people and therefore have every right to act like white people, they would be deeply offended.
So were all "African Americans?" Does this mean we're all entitled to reparations?
Maybe somebody ought to inform this stupid broad how many racial minorities Planned Parenthood despises and wants eliminated. It has been true since the time of Margaret Sanger (God have mercy on her soul)
No. But all our differences are now only tribal. Everyone knows how tribes get along.
A theory seriously challenged repeatedly in the last 20 years.
Regardless, accepting it s fact for the sake of argument, what has Africa done for humanity recently? Say the last 39,000 years?
I can live without rap.
I can live without bling bling.
I can live without basketball.
I can live without funny clothes.
I can live without jazz.
What else have you got?
Sorry, I'm not into group therapy.
"all people come from a small group that migrated from Africa 40,000 years ago"
Crockiola!
Hells bells, Dolores, attacking Mexicans has always been popular.
Trivia: Ms. Huerta is aptly named. The word "dolores" in Spanish means "pains".
In 1966, Chavez's United Farm Workers signed the first labor agreements ever between farmworkers and farm owners in the continental U.S.Chavez and the UFW didn't always follow the tenets of non-violence. For example, as reported by the Village Voice (an alternative weekly newspaper in New York City), the UFW was so angry about illegal immigrants from Mexico taking jobs away from UFW members that Cesar's brother, Manuel Chavez, set up what they called "the Wet Line" in Arizona, to catch incoming illegal aliens. The Voice reported that "the UFW conducted a campaign of random terror against anyone hapless enough to fall into its net."
On the non-violent front, Chavez and the UFW picketed the offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, demanding that the INS crack down on illegal aliens...
The scientific consensus is that humans emerged from Africa less than 100,000 years ago. What's the big deal?
Oh man, how can you put rap and jazz on the same list? Big difference between Snoop Dogg and Duke Ellington. ....to put it mildly. (Other than the fact that one's alive and one's dead, of course).
Idiot woman, it's the black Americans who are the most angry about the influx of Mexicans.
"Huerta, the mother of 11 children, started off talking about women's reproductive rights, but quickly segued to the topic of illegal immigration"
What's next?
A takeoff on the carbon credits approach to climate change only this way we could buy reproductive credits from those who practice planned parenting?
Let's say a woman who sells her rights to reproduce could have those rights purchased by a woman who wants to have children but she doesn't want to increase her carbon footprint; those rights would have a market price based on the child's lifetime carbon pollution load.
In this situation, Huerta with 11 children would be obligated to pay credits to 11 women who agree to abort one child each.
The way I see it, her footprint would reach all the way from Central America to the Northwestern Territories of Canada.
Are these people born heartless and stupid or is this something in the water?
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