Sotomayor was a member of La Raza and her comments about “WiseLatinas” being superior to white men appeared in the La Raza LawJournal.
by Tom Tancredo
Last week, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy spoke out against critics of Sonia Sotomayor as playing “racial politics.” According to Leahy, “You have one leader of the Republican party call her the equivalent of the head of the Ku Klux Klan… That’s what comes across. It comes across that if you belong to a group that tries to help Hispanics… somehow you’re suspicious.”
Usually confirmation hearings are supposed to be about gettingspecifics about the nominee. But Leahy chose to make vague accusationsagainst unnamed critics of the nominee while defending an unnamedorganization. It was apparent to DC insiders that the “group that triesto help” Hispanics is the National Council for La Raza (The Race) andthe “Republican Leader” is me.
It isn’t surprising that he didn’t want to use our names. After allit’s difficult to defend someone belonging to a group called “The Race”by accusing her opponents of playing racial politics. The last thingthe Democrats want is for the American people to know about theNational Council of La Raza, their radical agenda and Sotomayor’sassociation with the group.
Sotomayor was a member of La Raza and her comments about “WiseLatinas” being superior to white men appeared in the La Raza LawJournal. The National Council of La Raza bills itself as “the largestnational Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the UnitedStates” who works through “its network of nearly 300 affiliatedcommunity-based organizations.”
Among these affiliates are several chapters of the MovimientoEstudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán) whoLa Raza helps fund. Aztlán is what radical “Mechistas”—as they refer tothemselves on La Raza’s website—call the American Southwest, which theyclaim still belongs to Mexico. Their slogan is “Por La Raza todo, Fuerade La Raza nada” meaning “For the Race everything, outside the Racenothing.” One chapter says on La Raza’s site that their mission is“empowerment of our gente and the liberation of Aztlán.”
La Raza receives tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to set up charterschools like the Aztlán Academy of Tucson where they fly the MexicanFlag, but not the American Flag and teach students “Aztec Math.”
In 1994, La Raza gave their “Chicano of the Year” Award to Jose AngelGuitierrez who once said, “We have got to eliminate the Gringo, andwhat I mean by that is that if the worse comes to the worst, we havegot to kill him” and that “our devil has pale skin and blue eyes.”
Of special importance when considering a Supreme Courtnominee is La Raza’s position on a variety of policy and legal issues.They support driver’s licenses, in state tuition and amnesty forillegal aliens. They say that virtually all enforcement of ourimmigration laws on the state level is unconstitutional. They filedamicus briefs in favor of racial preferences and in favor of benefitsfor illegal aliens. They led the legal attack against Hazelton, PA fortheir official English and anti-illegal alien measures. Continued…