Posted on 05/06/2008 10:01:33 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I told you yesterday about John McCain’s plans to speak to the National Council of La Raza (The Race) in July. Here are the top 10 reasons he should repudiate the radical open borders, speech-squelching group that he has long embraced:
10. La Raza supports driver’s licenses for illegal aliens.
9. La Raza supports in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding US citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
8. La Raza opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities.
7. La Raza sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars, including the “Aztlan Academy” in Tucson, AZ, the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, AZ, and Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn.
6. La Raza gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), which the late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized as “a radical racist group…[and] one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.”
5. La Raza opposes a secure fence on the southern border.
4. Former La Raza president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic outreach advisor said this:
“US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.” He was referring to US English the nation’s oldest, largest citizens’ action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
La Raza also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms “illegal” and “amnesty.”
3. La Raza is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable TV networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves–in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes.
2. La Raza has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
1. The National Council of La Raza means The National Council of “The Race,” for God’s sake.
Their signature slogan, chanted at pro-illegal alien rallies from coast to coast, is “La raza unida nunca sera vencida.”
“A united [Hispanic] race will never be defeated.”
What possible good will come out of a GOP presidential candidate giving legitimacy and credibility to a sovereignty-undermining, assimilation-rejecting, law-defying group that calls itself “The Race?”
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"I agree that John McCain should not attend any conference of a group called “National Council of the Race.” In a multiracial society, Rev. Wright’s “rich white folks,” Obama’s “typical white person”, and clingers comments, and the idea of “The Race” will eventually doom us all. And it’s time no one gets a pass any more."
Jonathan Martin cluelessly suggests that McCain is “trying to show that he’s not George W. Bush by going into the lion’s den and taking hostile, unscripted questions from adversarial groups.”
Hostile? Adversarial? Do your homework, MSM.
McCain was honored by The Race in 1999, keynoted The Race’s 2004 conference, and has championed their agenda for years.
I'm sorry, are you calling yourself a conservative? If you think asking people to "tone it down" is a violation of free speech, you're either a liberal or a moron.
I did not tell anyone to shut up, nor will I. Grab a clue.
I had nothing to tone down. I believe it was BobJ that called me a “thug” and accused me of trying to enforce “groupthink” on the people. Now you call me a moron!
You are absolutely attacking free speech through your pathetic attempt at intimidation. What kind of conservative are you when you calling people names and trying to stiffle speech? By the way I agree that you never told anyone to “shutup.” You just implied it.
I think we know what Hernandez’ other job is now!
You have answered your own question.
If drivers’ licenses for illegals were, as you state, “idiotic notions” (in the face of public opinion) when put forth by Hillary and Spitzer, why are they not “idiotic notions” when Michelle puts them forth as a dire, manifest threat along with “not building a fence” when, in reality, the fence is well along to completion?
There are any number of organizations and groups (including plenty of Dems) who also, for one reason or another - including placating their liberal/leftist/radical membership - continue to advocate, in this instance, the very same (idiotic) thing (i.e., licenses), along with tearing down the already completed fence, etc. etc.
They are not going away. And the way to lessen their influence, especially among the young, is to engage them.
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Thanks for the ping, gubamyster. Interesting discussion on this thread. Thanks for the humor, m_f. :)
Huh??? They remain "idiotic notions" whether they are being actively lobbied for by the pro-illgeal crowd, at any given moment, or not. They patently were a dire, manifest threat, during the period when Cankles and Spitzer were pushing aggressively for same; plainly, then, Michelle was absolutely correct in regarding (and describing) them as such.
Your question as constituted, above, doesn't really make the "sense" you evidently planned for it to make; there's no "there" there, past its unraveling. What else, specifically, are you attempting to say, here...?
along with “not building a fence” when, in reality, the fence is well along to completion?
Asked and answered. "Well along to completion," surely, would have to mean at least 50% accomplished (at barest minimum, mind!), with funding either in hand or else accounted for. Make the case that this is the real, actual state of affairs on the ground at this time, by all means, if you can. I, for one, would genuinely love to hear it; I've always had a weakness for dinner theatre. ;)
No, I said that you must be a liberal or a moron to take that position. Since you object to the latter, I must assume you're comfortable with the former.
You are absolutely attacking free speech through your pathetic attempt at intimidation.
I hope Kent won't mind me borrowing this photo:
Get over yourself, drama queen. Nobody's trying to intimidate you into anything. If you want to keep blathering on and confirming that you're either a troll or a hysterical dimwit, that's up to you, not me.
I’m interested in why neither of you folks have answered my question.
Would you write the same things about McCain appearing at a KKK rally that you’ve written about his appearance at a La Raza rally?
Beauty, post it. We are definitely operating in a target rich environment when it comes to drama queens.
"Eve Harrington. What a heifer." ;)
McCain is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
I haven’t written anything about McCain. But to answer your question (I think), I have a problem with some of McCains positions on immigration, I have some problems with the NCLR’s positions, but I don’t have a problem, yet, with McCain speaking to the group anymore than I would have a problem with him speaking to the NAACP when they advocate stupid things like reparations.
I also understood why McCain is reaching out to hispanics, Bush got 40% of their vote and still won by a hair. A politician MAY win by dismissing the black vote but dismissing the hispanic vote is certain failure.
And it is ALL about politics, something many FReepers just can’t or won’t understand.
BTW - It may be germane to compare the KKK to MeCHa or La Raza Unidos but I think it may be a stretch to compare them to the NCLR. I’ve been th their website, I conducted google searches and to me they seem more a mainstream (in a dem way) outfit along the lines of the NAACP or other racial organizations.
In other words, if McCain is going to reach out to hispanics this is a good an organization to start with as any. Most others are far more left wing/militant than they appear to be.
My question to people on this thread is WHOM they think McCain should meet with if he is trying to build political bridges to the second largest demographic group in the country.
IOW, La Raza’s plaform is aobut the same as Juan’s.
You got me right through the heart with that one. You found me out. I am truly a liberal, a classical one at that.
No one is saying that the other side is better, only that the nominee of the supposed “conservative” party probably should not be IN AGREEMENT WITH THE COMMUNISTS!
In other words, a libertarian. Don’t you already have a party of your own?
The truth is that they do not want McCain nor the GOP to reach out to Hispanic organizations period. They fear that if Hispanics start voting Republican en masse that they will lose their power over the party. What they fail to realize is that politics has already passed them by. They no longer have much influence over the GOP. Such is the fate for those who fail to adapt to changing times.
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