Al Giordano says Tancredo has it backwards about la raza

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http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/understanding-la-raza


Understanding "La Raza"


-video of Trancado-


Only someone in the most paranoid mindset - former US Rep. and 2007 Republican presidential also-ran Tom Credo is Exhibit A - would jump to the conclusion that the term "La Raza" as it is widely used across the hemisphere is somehow "racist."

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Tancredo's reference was to the National Council of La Raza, the largest national immigrant-rights organization. And the whacky claims he made about the NCLR's logo were demonstrably false. Here, see for yourself:

The reasoning (if you can call it that) behind such a charge relies on an incomplete translation of the words "la raza," which in one set of contexts means "the race." But one need only venture as close by as Wikipedia to understand the cultural and topical use of the term as it applies in this hemisphere. It comes from a best-selling book published 84 years ago by an esteemed Mexican educator:

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Published in 1925, La Raza Cósmica (The Cosmic Race) is an essay written by late Mexican philosopher, secretary of education, and 1929 presidential candidate, José Vasconcelos to express the ideology of a future "fifth race" in the Americas; an agglomeration of all the races in the world with no respect to color or number to erect a new civilization...

The phrase, "La raza cósmica", in English "the cosmic race", embodies the notion that traditional, exclusive concepts of race and nationality can be transcended in the name of humanity's common destiny. It originally referred to a movement by Mexican intellectuals during the 1920s who pointed out that Latin Americans have the blood of all the world's races (White Europeans, Asian-descended Native-Americans and Black Africans), transcending the peoples of the "old world".

Vasconcelos also used the term when he coined the National Autonomous University of Mexico's motto: "Por mi raza hablará el espíritu".

It has come, often in its shortened version "La Raza", to refer to the mixed race people of Latin America, i.e., primarily mestizos, mulattos, and zambos or all three combined. Vasconcelos also used the expression, "la raza de bronce" ("the bronze race"), in this same sense.
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Tancredo's recent Cable TV show tour blasting Judge Sotomayor as allegedly "racist" begs more scrutiny onto Romney, too. Eyebrows were raised when the billionaire former Massachusetts governor received Tancredo's support given that Tancredo had raised only $774,360 for his presidential campaign whereas Romney had raised more than $60 million for his own, at least $8.5 million that came from his own pockets. It is an open question as to how Tancredo - who did not seek reelection to Congress last year - now makes his living, and whether there was a quid pro quo from Romney in exchange for his support. The question is: Who is now paying nut-job Tom Tancredo's bills so that he can go on TV and make such inflammatory statements?
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good question

[Karenina]

1. Another SLAM DUNK!

:rofl:

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Read the charter etc of La Raza. If its fine with you substitute white for brown and see if you

still think its fine. La Raza could change that but chooses not to. They give ammunition to their opponents and then whine when they are called on it. Sophistry like the cited article do not help either.

[Garbo 2004]

6. Where is this NCLR charter etc to which you refer? All I could find on net were right wing claims vs

rebuttals ( http://www.nclr.org/content/viewpoints/detail/42500/ ) and some other seemingly boring stuff on the NCLR site. But no NCLR charter.

I did see that in early days, funding for NCLR was provided by Ford Foundation, UAW, then later also Fed gov't.

And later (1982) there also was a coporate board of advisers with founding members of the board from Gulf Oil, Time Inc, GM, Coca-Cola. Including a fellow named Don Rumsfeld from GD Searle who NCLR's 1993 first 25 yr history credits with playing a particularly important role in recruiting the initial corporate advisors/funders.

I'm interested in finding the NCLR charter you refer to, but so far can't seem to find it.

[Wednesdays]

3. K&R

:kick:

[ForrestGump]

4. Al Giordano?

Let me know when Dirk Pitt weighs in on this...

[troubledamerican]

5. Any race can be La Raza.

In plain English. Six plain words.