The MEChA WhitewashBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | September 2, 2003 PONTEFICATIONS“CURRENT MEChA CHAPTERS STILL USE THE 1960s SYMBOL of an eagle clutching dynamite,” reported the August 30 Los Angeles Times, “but do not subscribe to separatist or nationalistic ideas, according to members and faculty who work with the organization.” “Yes, MEChA went through a nationalist period,” acknowledged Rodolfo Acuna, a professor of Chicano studies at California State University Northridge near Los Angeles, “but most people in this country went through a nationalist period.” Thus goes the frantic covering and back-filling now underway on campuses and in the media to whitewash and conceal...