when I was starting out as a teacher at a Coachella Valley USD in the mid-90's I was at a high school that was 95% or maybe 99% latino, and they had a group called "la raza" which I didn't understand at the time. I figured it was some sort of ethnic support group, but also at times realized there were some latinos [both students & employees] at this school who had such immense pride that it felt like supremacy or superiority [over me, a "white" person], perhaps including the new principal, Alex Franco, who was also latino, and a former student of the school. All this controversy about the Trump judge and his affiliation with la raza helps explain some of what I might have experienced as well.
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Of course, Murguia and Judge Curiel's group are lying. La raza can be translated as "the master race," and the concept of the "Hispanic" was only invented in 1972 by President Richard Nixon, four years after NCLR was founded....So la raza really does mean "the Master Race, but rather than based on notions of racial purity, La Raza's inherent, biological superiority is based on its hybridity, on the mixing in Latin America of, in Vasconcelos's words, 'the black, the Indian, the Mongol, and the white,'" writes Krikorian. La raza really means that "Hispanics, and specifically Mestizos, are superior to those of us unfortunate enough not to be part of the cosmic race."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263143/trump-right-be-suspicious-judge-matthew-vadum
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Of course, Murguia and Judge Curiel's group are lying. La raza can be translated as "the master race," and the concept of the "Hispanic" was only invented in 1972 by President Richard Nixon, four years after NCLR was founded....So la raza really does mean "the Master Race, but rather than based on notions of racial purity, La Raza's inherent, biological superiority is based on its hybridity, on the mixing in Latin America of, in Vasconcelos's words, 'the black, the Indian, the Mongol, and the white,'" writes Krikorian. La raza really means that "Hispanics, and specifically Mestizos, are superior to those of us unfortunate enough not to be part of the cosmic race."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263143/trump-right-be-suspicious-judge-matthew-vadum
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