Comments by "Dean Firnatine" (@deanfirnatine7814) on "Huckabee: Trump's comments weren't racist" video.
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Trump was not wrong in his comments about this judges suitability and ability to be fair. For those criticizing Trump they should know both about the judges connections politically to Hillary and to the group La Raza (The Race) and they should be aware of what honest Latino leaders like Caesar Chavez and other Latino leaders thought about La Raza and accusations of racism within the group. Below are some quotes by Chavez and other Latino leaders
César Chávez
was a critic of La Raza, stating to Peter Matthiessen of The New Yorker,
"“I hear more and more Mexicans talking about la raza—to build up their
pride. Some people don’t look at it as racism, but when you say ‘la raza,’ you
are saying an anti-gringo thing, and it won’t stop there. Today it’s
anti-gringo, tomorrow it will be anti-Negro. We had a stupid guy who just
wanted to play politics with the union, and he began to whip up La Raza against
the white volunteers, and even had some of the farm workers and the pickets and
the organizers hung up on la raza. So I took him on. These things have to be
met head on. On discrimination, I don’t even give the members the privilege of
a vote, and I’m not ashamed of it. No, the whole business of discrimination
can’t exist here. So often, these days, the leaders are afraid, and even though
they feel strongly against racism, they will not speak out against it. If the
leadership is united, then it can say, ‘All right, if you’re going to do things
that way, then you’ll have to get rid of us.’ You have to speak out
immediately, the first time."[13]
Chávez friend and UFW staffer LeRoy Chatfield[14]
stated, ""That's one of the reasons (Chávez) is so upset about La
Raza. The same Mexicans that ten years ago were talking about themselves as
Spaniards are coming on real strong these days as Mexicans. Everyone should be
proud of what they are, of course, but race is only skin-deep. It's phony and
it comes out of frustration; the la raza people are not secure. They look upon
Cesar as their 'dumb Mexican' leader; he's become their saint. But he doesn't
want any part of it. He said to me just the other day, 'Can't they understand
that that's just the way Hitler started?' A few months ago the Ford Foundation
funded a la raza group and Cesar really told them off. The foundation liked the
outfit's sense of pride or something, and Cesar tried to explain to them what
the origin of the word was, that it's related to Hitler's concept."[15]
Richard Garcia quotes Chavez as stating, "La Raza? Why be racist? Our
belief is to help everyone, not just one race. Humanity is our belief."
and noted Stan Steiner[16]
as observing that when Chavez told Chicanos
this, "their faces fell" in disbelief. They had thought he was a
nationalist, not a humanist."
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