re: #579 Charles

1. you don’t find their representatives espousing “Aztlan” or Hispanic supremacist positions any more.

2.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.

3.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.

Charles,

I’ve taken your post from before and whittled it down to your three main points for why La Raza has mellowed.

From the two links I posted above, (one two), it seems that La Raza is still on the Aztlan thing (one of their charter schools is even named Aztlan Academy) and and not only believes their white-man bad/brown-man-good line still, but is actively teaching it to another generation in taxpayer funded schools.

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:

— Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz.

As for corporate groups giving them money, that only means that they’ve been fooled. We’ve seen a number of radical groups who were given money by corporations which either didn’t know the group’s true agenda, or were trying to earn diversity points even if the group seemed somewhat off.

And, I don’t believe them concerning what “la raza” means.