re: #499 SeafoodGumbo

Charles,

Sotomayor is a member of a group that you have described as a “Hispanic supremacist group” and “a rabidly racist Mexican-American group with an open agenda to turn the Western states of the US into ‘Aztlan?’.”

Isn’t that enough to disqualify her?

If I were to post those articles again, I’d be a little more careful with how I describe the National Council of La Raza. I’ve learned a lot more about them since then.

When the group started, they did have ties to shady causes and some pretty incendiary political positions, but the modern version of NCLR has become a pretty moderate organization, and you don’t find their representatives espousing “Aztlan” or Hispanic supremacist positions any more. In fact they’re a 501(c)(3) organization now, with funding from major corporations like Walmart and Citigroup, who aren’t known for being involved with extremist groups.

And by the way, they deny that “La Raza” means “The Race.” According to their website, it means “The People,” and was originally “La Raza Cosmica,” signifying all the different Latino strains.

Are they hiding their extremism? I don’t know, but from the evidence I can see, they seem to have changed quite a bit from their founding years in the 1960s.