re: #579 Charles

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.

Evil groups that are smart usually put on a coat and tie after a while. Just because Walmart gives them money and Karl Rove was stupid enough to speak to them don’t seem to be proof that they’ve changed.

If this article by Michelle Malkin is correct, I’d suspect that they’ve just gotten smarter about how to maneuver.

Among The Race’s most infamous government-funded charter schools is La Academia Semillas del Pueblo, the Los Angeles public school that teaches “Aztec math” (ancient dot math is the new math) and the Mexican indigenous language of “Nahuatl.” The ethnic separatist principal of the school, Marcos Aguilar, told a sympathetic UCLA interviewer:

“We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don’t need a White water fountain… . We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction.”

That’s the tip of the iceberg. I found dozens of other publicly subsidized charter schools sponsored by The Race and funded with our money, including:

At a very minimum, they’re still a very far-left group who want to let illegal aliens vote and enjoy practically all of the rights of American citizens, and who have been opposed to security measures that make the country safe.