Quote:
Originally posted by techweenie
I think you may be confusing La Raza with Aztlan. The latter is a promotion of 'brotherhood' often spun into a paranoid fantasy of "Mexican takeover" by white separatist groups. La Raza is just a rallying cry for protests like those of the UFW.
National Council of La Raza
http://www.nclr.org/
|
Yes, it can have multiple meanings -- more and less militant -- by different groups. But the word is, in all cases, essentially separatist. And "La Raza" is increasingly used as shorthand not only for Moviemento Estudiantil Chicana de Aztlan, known as "MEChA," or "Aztlan," but to La Raza Unida, which sees itself as a Palestine state within America, destined to one day reclaim itws own native land.
As to its sense of "brotherhood", no spin or paranoia is required to understand the calls for "physical liberation" and "secession," for “a people from a bronze culture,” dispossessed by the “brutal ‘gringo’”. And to their claim that “Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to foreign Europeans." That is, "we do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent.” These protestors are well-represented in the current goings-on.