[Grumplestiltskin]

“Hispanic is not a race. You can be a white Hispanic or a black Hispanic and they declare which race on their census form. Hispanic is an ethnicity. “

What do the words “La Raza” translate to?

What is their motto? I’ll refresh your memory:
“For those of the Race, everything. For those not of the Race, nothing.”

“Hispanic” is _more than_ ethnicity. Like those who cannot see the forest from the trees, we are seeing human evolution at work right before our eyes. For roughly the last 500 years, we have been seeing the emergence of a new “sub-racial” category: Hispanics. They didn’t exist before the discovery of The New World. But they certainly exist now.

And (again, “La Raza”) they certainly and obviously have their own identity and consciousness.

Just sayin’...

[Clemenza]

"La Raza" is purely a MEXICAN term, and refers to the mixed race of Indian and European that allegedly produces the best of both. It was coined by Jose Vasconcelos as "La Raza Cosmica" after the Mexican war.

Americans are silly to consider "Hispanics" a race (the only people on earth who do so), yet include non European ethnicities like Arabs, Persians, Jews, and Armenians as white.