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Originally Posted by Ayatollahgondola
You know, this has always been a point of contention with me. The latino contingent is always claiming that La Raza means "the people" when we accuse them of racist motives. they have said Gente is race. But then they disavow that when something like it crops up. For what it's worth, They seem to contend they have no word for race, because they can't possibly be racist
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If they weren't talking about race the words would be "viva la gente" rather than "viva la raza" and they know it.
That may go back to Vasconcelos and all his racial babbling about the "cosmic race", but I doubt it.
The peddling of how they can't be racist is evident in their apparent contention that only whites are capable of racism, which is a bald faced falsehood.
It's all about weasel fashion spin and redirection. I've read bilingual newspapers where an article in Spanish was a rabid, victimization peddling, rabble rousing racial tirade, but the "English translation" of the article was a bland, sugar coated shadow of the real message.
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