David Horowitz: Democrats are the party of hate

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La Raza marches are something different and please don't try and suggest they are not.

I have participated in such marches. I have taken my kids. What do you know about them?

NCLR (colloquially known as "La Raza") is a civil rights organization. They are fairly moderate. They give out scholarships. They organize pro-immigrant marches... but even on immigration they are moderate (left of center, but moderate).

I assume you agree that Americans are free to go to a march if we want to.... La Raza marches are actually kind of fun, and I think they are effective at energizing voters.

La Raza marches to me are probably the same as NRA marches are to other Americans. I am just as American as they are... and that is my point.

For the record, I am racially and ethnically as White as they come, mostly Northern European with one branch that is Jewish (via Italy). My kids are Hispanic-American, and identify as such.

Google La Raza in the images section.

So the big bad White Nationalists counterfeited La Raza posters?

There is a difference between being inclusive and being suckers

There are groups who wish to take advantage of the generosity of America.

Are they the norm in terms of immigration? No, but you don't seem to be able to acknowledge that there is anything to be criticized if it can be attached to a "liberal" label.

No, but you don't seem to be able to acknowledge that there is anything to be criticized if it can be attached to a "liberal" label.

An "American" group that promotes the idea that gringos need to leave California are not "American"

Anyone who legally comes to this country belongs here.

The words “La Raza” (Spanish for “The Race”) in NCLR's name have long been a source of considerable controversy. Critics claim that the name reflects an organizational commitment to racial separatism and race-based grievance mongering.

By NCLR's telling, however, such critics have mistranslated the word “Raza.” According to NCLR, “the full term,” which was coined by the Mexican scholar (and Mexican secretary of public education) José Vasconcelos (1882-1959), is “la raza cósmica,” meaning “the cosmic people.” NCLR describes this as “an inclusive concept” whose purpose is to express the fact that “Hispanics share with all other peoples of the world a common heritage and destiny.”

NCLR's interpretation of Vasconcelos's explanation, however, is inaccurate. "The concept of La Raza can be traced to the ideas and writings of Jose Vasconcelos, the Mexican theorist who developed the theory of la raza cosmica (the cosmic or super race) at least partially as a minority reaction to the Nordic notions of racial superiority. Vasconelos developed a systematic theory which argued that climatic and geographic conditions and mixture of Spanish and Indian races created a superior race. The concept of La Raza connotes that the mestizo [of mixed race, usually the child of a person of Spanish descent and an American Indian] is a distinct race and not Caucasian, as is technically the case.

In short, Vasconcelos was not promoting "an inclusive concept," but rather, the notion of Hispanic racial superiority. Mark Krikorian of the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies has explained, further, that Vasconcelos advanced his "la raza" ideas in the 1920s, the same period during which Nazism was gaining steam in Germany. Communist Party member Maclovio Barraza (1927-1980) was yet another influential figure in the founding of NCLR. To this day, the organization commemorates Barraza's “achievements” by giving out an “Award for Leadership” that is named after him.

It has been widely reported that NCLR's official motto is “Por La Raza Todo, Fuera de La Raza Nada,” which means “For The Race Everything, Outside the Race Nothing.”