Pejman, at Pejmanesque, has an excellent roundup of the information on MECHA.
Follow the link, for information.

There's little reason to believe that Bustamante is racist, but asking him about the racist aspects of the organization is a very legitimate question.

And he should have an answer.
And that answer should be clear.

This is not a difficult question, in this day and age.
It makes me wonder why he's taken so long to denounce the racist aspects. (ethnicists?)

(thought: If Bustamante wins, do we get to call his term "Busta Times"?)

Frank J. -- typo in line "Hispanics have a very high..."

Frank, what if we are white, but we tan well? Then, would MEChA like us?

So where is it written that only Caucasians can be 'racist'?

Probably in the same book that came up with "reverse discrimination".

It's another fine mess the media has gotten us into.

"For the race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing.” That would be a good slogan for a pit crew. Maybe they're just huge NASCAR fans.

Even assuming too much is being read into it, if he had been a white man in a white-only club, and even if they said "We don't have anything against other races, we're just trying to help ourselves" he'd be run out of town so fast his head would spin - justifiably so, in my opinion.

And while he profusely apologized for tne "N" word, white people that correctly use the word "niggardly" are pronounced racist.

Anyway, this guy either doesn't understand basic economics (as with Davis) or panders to those who don't. He wants to add $8 billion in taxes on a weak economy AND wants to put price controls on gasoline. Price controls = shortages/rationing. Always. I remember what gasoline shortages were like. You idle so long waiting for one of the few open pumps that you eat up any possible savings there might have been. And it isn't fun.

Oh, I should have said "wasp" instead of "white" I suppose. I used to think of hispanic as white, but apparently I'm wrong. Well, at least that's what I hear from people like this fellow.

sounds communist to me, lets nuke their asses

If someone wants to give MEChA the benefit of the doubt that their organization is just a cultural heritage club, then they need to shut up about the Confederate flag...

VR, I always thought of most Hispanics as white people too. A lot of them have Indian blood, but so do lots of other people who call themjselves White. Like me. Or my half Apache wife.

interesting that they want to help correct their race's high dropout rate by...

Action #2: September 16, on the birthdate of Mexican Independence, a national walk-out by all Chicanos of all colleges and schools to be sustained until the complete revision of the educational system: its policy makers, administration, its curriculum, and its personnel to meet the needs of our community.

...dropping out?

White man isn't keeping you down, you're keeping yourself down.

Frank:

Re that "Plan Espiritual":

Look at Item 7: "Where we are a majority, we will control; where we are a minority, we will represent a pressure group; nationally, we will represent one party: La Familia de La Raza!" Certainly not nonpartisan or multipartisan. And that "one party" remark gets me. Can you hear Hitler saying this in the mid-30s: "Where we are a majority, we will control; where we are a minority, we will represent a pressure group; nationally, we will represent one party: Die Familie der Rasse!" (emphasis added) or, "Die Familie des Volk!"?

And under the plan of action, what does "Self-Defense against the occupying forces of the oppressors at every school, every available man, woman, and child" mean? And who are the oppressors? Surely they don't include the Chicanos. They must be people other than the "bronze" peoples. And this: "A nation autonomous and free - culturally, socially, economically, and politically" (emphasis added); what is this but separatism?

If ever Aztlan were to be created out of the southwestern United States, what would happen to all of the non-Hispanics living there?

How can this be described as anything but revolutionary, separatist (and Marxist) rhetoric? If MEChA were really about promoting education for Hispanics, and other benign things, then that's what we would be reading about on their web sites, like one does at the United Negro College Fund, for example, or at the NAACP.

And here's another thing that gets me about MEChA: they denounce Europeans as the "evil interlopers," and they praise themselves as the "noble natives," but even a cursory glance at the history of Mexico would show that these Chicanos also have European blood in them! They are descendants of natives, yes, but also of Spanish colonists! They speak Spanish, a European language, for Heaven's sake! Now, if having European blood cannot be a criterion for being an "oppressor," then something else must be. Might it be not being a Chicano? Might it be being white?

And if the United States, as having been formed out of the colony of an invading European power, has no right to exist, then neither does Mexico, which was formed out of a colony of an invading European power. (And, for that matter, neither would Canada or any other modern state in the Americas, since they are all states that have been formed from European colonies.)

Aztlan, like Arab Palestine, is a fictional state which never existed.

Frank, you're "pretty fly for a white guy".

or rabbi. whichever.

If nobody else but Latinos will empower Latinos, what am I doing teaching them English every week?

An interesting story, BTW... one of mi estudiantes told me that when he came to Los EEUU, he was astonished by the people who volunteered their time to do things for other people. He is extremely grateful for the teachers because "... in México, nobody would ever do this. They're too busy looking out for themselves."

Weird.

Uhh Huhh ...

Bustamante (D) says that this is ok ...
For the race everything. For those outside the race nothing.

Hmmm ... Trent Lott (R) said ---

“When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either.”

Davis (D) said that "you shouldn't be governor unless you can pronounce the name of the state."

Okay ... now who has paid the price for their asinine comment?

Which part ostracizes the members who make bigoted and racially divisive comments?

Oh, yeah – the party that actually pays a price for them.

I suggest they change their motto to
"For those who took it first, everything.
For those who took it second, nothing."

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