re: #784 bosforus

There are millions of Mexicans like me (if “by me” I mean a normal upstanding citizen which is, I assume, how you meant it when you said “then if you use it”) that use the phrase La Raza.

All you are doing is proving my point. To you it has a certain meaning, to me, my ex-wife to other Hispanics, it may have a different meaning, it’s actual literal translated meaning “the race.”

To my ex-wife and myself, it had a racist meaning. She has been in public health care for over 25 years and most of the patients she has dealt with are Hispanic. She heard the racism of the term over and over, and still does I suppose.

And it can mean something very ugly at times.