now why in the world are you say NR is just going to make up an award?
The claim is the award was from 97 (from a NR article in 2000) and I haven’t found anything on La Raza’s website that goes back that far.
Gee, maybe because I see NO CITATION or MENTION of such an award prior to NR's article?
Go ahead, Google "Defender of the Melting Pot" - see how few mentions come up. And all either tied to the NR article or after the NR article.
Also note that La Raza DOES have an award for Congresscritters - by a very different name.