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Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
Saleema
04/03/01 at 11:05:16
LA VOZ DE AZTLAN EDITORIAL http://www.aztlan.net/razajews.htm La Raza and Jews on Collision Course in Alta California There are now significant signs of an impending collision between La Raza and Jews in California. The signs were first manifested during the state's 1998 election primary when a Mexicano defeated the Jewish candidate Richard Katz in the state's 20th Senate District and when the wealthy Jew, Ron Unz, was successful in having an anti-bilingual education initiative approved by the state's electorate. The battle lines between Mexicanos and Jews in California have been drawn and they have been drawn most clearly in the City of Los Angeles. La Raza's battle for the 20th Senate District is a perfect example of how the Jews will fight tooth and nail to maintain their dominance in state government. The victorious battle by La Raza in the 20th S.D., which is located in the middle of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, was only a small skirmish of a larger battle that is about to occur as we seek more equitable proportional representation in state and local governments. The Jews of California, about 3% of the state's population, have an overwhelming and disproportionate share of the state's wealth which they utilize effectively to wield immense influence on the state's political apparatus principally through dominance of the Democratic Party. Both U.S Senators of the state are ladies of Jewish descent and there is no sector of California society, either private or public, in which Jews are not significant policy makers. Whatever sector they can not control directly, they will do it indirectly through the purchase of influence and through cunning manipulation of ethnic and other minorities. La Raza's victory in the 20th Senate District has been a turning point in the relationship between Mexicanos and Jews. It was the very first time that a significant clash for political control, at the state level, has taken place between the two ethnic groups. Political representation in Los Angeles County is presently determined along racial and ethnic lines. For example, the Congressional Delegation of the county is presently divided between Mexicanos, Afro-Americans, Jews and Whites. There are four Congresspersons of Mexican descent (Becerra, Solis, Roybal, Napolitano) , three of African descent, two of Jewish descent (Waxman, Berman) and the rest are Whites. They each represent districts where the majority of the population are of the same racial or ethnic group as they are. The same is true with state assembly and state senate districts. The 20th Senate District was one in transition where Mexicanos were at the time barely outnumbering Jews. The race became wide open when Herschel Rosenthall, a Jew, could not run for re-election because of term limits. A very popular Mexicano by the name of Richard Alarcon, then a Los Angeles City Councilman, decided to challenge the Jewish domination of the senate district by declaring himself a candidate against the Jew Richard Katz . He won by a mere 29 votes but the bloody battle between the Jews and La Raza left a bitter aftermath that has had negative repercussions to this day. The Jews are sore losers and they did not take the defeat graciously. They insinuated that Mexicans were racists and anti-semitic simply because we challenged them and beat them politically. They criticized Senator Richard Alarcon because he publicized, during his campaign, a very nice picture of himself and Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahoney. . . never mind that various Jewish publications in Los Angeles campaigned and had photographs of Richard Katz wearing Jewish kippahs while praying at Jewish synagogues. The battle for the 20th Senate District in California should provide a very valuable lesson for La Raza. In our political struggle for self-determination, we can not assume the certain groups will be our friends. Jews have catered for our vote in the past but when it comes our turn to share in real political power, they will turn their face and become our enemies. Since they are actually a very small percentage of the overall population, they are forced to utilize strategies, other than mere numbers to maintain control. A principal strategy is to utilize their vast supply of funds to manipulate the political system as they are presently doing in the race for mayor of Los Angeles. They are very adapt at manipulating the varied political interests as well as the interests of racial, ethnic and sexual preference minorities. They have formed alliances with, for example, the Black community in order to put in check the rightful political emergence of La Raza as they did when a Jew/Black coalition elected Tom Bradley, the first Black mayor of Los Angeles. Later they formed an alliance with Republicans to elect Richard Riordan as the mayor. Jews are very good at formimg alliances with anyone as long it serves their interests . They play all sides of a fence, this way they guarantee that they will always be on the winning side. What they are doing now in the present race for mayor of Los Angeles speaks volumes as to the varied and effective strategies they utilize to perpetuate their political and economic power. Sensing that Chicanos and Mexicanos have now become an increasing challenge that can no longer be checked with their traditional methods, they have now resorted to investing in the development and empowerment of a small cadre of "vendido hispanic politicos" that they can easily manipulate to carry out their policies. One of these "politicos" is Antonio "Tony" Villargairosa who is running for mayor of Los Angeles. Tony Villargairosa was recruited from East Los Angeles and appointed a Vice-President of the Jewish run American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) which is led in southern California by a Jewish lady by the name of Ramona Ripston. Soon, with the guidance and funding of Jews, he became an Assemblyperson and eventually the Speaker of the State Assembly. As Speaker of the Assembly, Villargairosa did nothing for La Raza. He is presently running under the "Education Banner" but the fact is that he did nothing in opening up higher education for the many deserving Chicano/Mexicano students who are now left without a future. He was a member of UC Board of Regents yet he never took a leadership role in changing their racist and ethnocentric policies. He was merely a "puppet" of Jewish interests in the Assembly. A case in point is his relationship with Jews Ron Unz and Bob Hertzberg. Ron Unz is the wealthy Jewish Mogul who funded the successful passage of the anti-Bilingual Initiative that outlawed Spanish/English bilingual education in California's public schools. This has been a devastating defeat for La Raza yet Antonio "Tony" Villargairosa awarded Ron Unz with an appointment to an Assembly Blue Ribbon Commission. Later Ron Unz went off to Arizona and was instrumental in passing a similar anti-Spanish language initiative there. La Raza considers Villagairosa's actions concerning Ron Unz pure treason. We can not trust him as mayor of Los Angeles because we know that he will not represent our interests. One of his Campaign Finance Officers is Eli Broad which according to Fortune Magazine is the richest man in Los Angeles County and he is a Jew. Another example of Villargairosa's Jewish collusion is his selling out of the Assembly Speakership to Bob Hertzberg. Bob Hertzburg is a Jewish Assemblyman that represents Assembly District 40. Assembly District 40 is one half of Senate District 20 that was won by Richard Alarcon during the bitter fight between La Raza and Jews in the district. The other half of Senate District 20 is Assembly District 39 which is predominantly Mexicano, and is represented by Toby Cardenas. Because of term limits, Villargairosa had to move on and instead of making sure that a Chicano/Mexicano would replace him as Speaker, he instead made a deal with the Jews and helped Bob Hetzberg become Speaker. This is a second act of treason for Villargairosa and more proof that he is simply a lackey for Jewish interests. Our increasing population and voting strength will, in the near future, collide with the interests of the Jews in Alta California and for that matter in the other regions of Aztlan. Our increasing ties with our brothers and sisters in Mexico will also present a challenge for the American Jewish community. The Mexican Dual Nationality Program means that we now have the same status with Mexico that American Jews have with Israel. We are now in the position to question the over 8 billion dollars of our tax money that are sent to Israel each year and soon we will be in the position to remind the American Jews of their shoddy treatment of Mexico when the nation's UN Ambassador voted to equate Zionism with Racism. La Raza has been intimidated, over the years, from bringing the above issues into discussion. La Voz de Aztlan has been the victim of censorship on the Internet because we have dared to dialogue on these matters. Hate e-mail we have received from Jews has demonstrated to us that they can be as bigoted as some white supremacists and their treatment of the Palestinians in Israel shows us that they can be as racist. http://www.aztlan.net/razajews.htm

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
Saleema
04/03/01 at 11:06:25
La Voz de Aztlan Los Angeles, Alta California April 2, 2001 MALDEF sends threat to La Voz de Aztlan over article on La Raza/Jewish Relations Los Angeles - April 2, 2001 -(ACN) La Voz de Aztlan received a threat over the weekend from the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) because of an editorial published recently with the title: "La Raza and Jews on Collision Course in Alta California." A strongly worded message was sent by Thomas A. Saenz, National Senior Counsel of MALDEF that requested La Voz de Aztlan cease from publishing articles on Jews in California and in addition asked for a public apology for our comments previously published on the subject. The message in addition stated that he had received a copy of private conversations La Voz de Aztlan had with Frank Quevedo, Vice President of Southern California Edison on the subject. Southern California Edison is presently under close scrutiny after 8 billion dollars disappeared from the state's treasury as a cause of the contrived electric energy crisis. The incident is significant in that it provides a perfect example of how Mexicanos in the Southwest have been historically censored by those who control the organs of mass communications in the country such as Eisner of the Disney Company. Other examples have been the assassination of Journalist Ruben Salazar and more recent the re-assignment of popular columnist Agustin Gurza of the Los Angeles Times to an area of the newspaper where his articles "will not threaten the status quo ". La Voz de Aztlan has been under constant siege not only by white supremacist bigots but also by Jewish Nazis like Irv Rubin of Jerry Springer fame. There seems to be certain area of political and economic life that are off-limits to Mexicans. We are not supposed to ask questions or discuss certain topics that La Voz de Aztlan believes are of extreme importance to the future of La Raza. Problems with MALDEF began when their former Director of Education Programs, Lydia "Cohen" Camarillo, colluded with other Jews of the Democratic Party to deny La Voz de Aztlan press credentials to cover the Democratic National Convention that recently took place in Los Angeles. Lydia "Cohen" Camarillo, married to a Jew, was appointed because of what were described as her "big assets" to head the Democratic Convention Planning Committee when La Voz de Aztlan applied very early in the process for press accreditation. The required forms and request were sent to the proper Congressional Gallery in Washington D.C and when an inquiry was forwarded by the publication concerning the status, La Voz de Aztlan was informed that it had been sent to Lydia "Cohen" Camarillo's office for action. Calls by La Voz de Aztlan to Mrs. Cohen's office were referred to a Jewish woman who was extremely rude and disrespectful. In one instance, this woman hung the phone loudly in our ear. Needless to say La Voz de Aztlan was never granted press credentials. This is in contrast to the very respectful and considerate treatment of La Voz de Aztlan by the International Communications Press Agency of the Republic of Mexico when it granted us press credentials to cover the President Bush/President Fox Encuentro in Guanajuato and by the Zapatitsta Communications Office when it granted La Voz de Aztlan press credentials to cover the historic Zapatista March into Mexico City. Thomas A. Saenz of MALDEF sent the threatening message to La Voz de Aztlan because he was ordered to do so by Frank Quevedo of Southern California Edison. Southern California Edison gives MALDEF quite a lot of money yearly through Quevedo. Quevedo has been on the MALDEF Board of Directors and has Jewish ancestry. There are many others in MALDEF that have very close Jewish connections including Antonia "Stern" Hernandez who has been the National President for MALDEF for many years. She is married to Michael Stern, an influential Jewish attorney in Los Angeles. Another MALDEF lady with very strong Jewish connections is Vilma Martinez. Vilma was also a MALDEF National President for many years and she is also married to a Jew. Vilma was appointed to the Board of Directors of Anhauser Busch which produces Budweiser beer. That is one of the reasons that we see so much Budweiser beer flowing freely during our Cinco de Mayo celebrations. This poison has been responsible for one major problem in our community, which is acute alcoholism. Sending "vendido" hispanics to do their dirty work is a favorite ploy of Jews in Los Angeles. Many Jewish controlled foundations and corporations fund some of our mainstream organizations but in return they expect that these hispanic organizations toe-the-line on their behalf. Some of the most visible hispanic organizations also receive very significant funding from the alcohol and tobacco industries. The "muertos de hambre" leaders of these organizations do not care about the damage these products are doing to our families. Censorship of publications such as La Voz de Aztlan has grave consequences for our community. Those who want to maintain the status quo, which means keeping La Raza in a political and economic subservient condition, know that there are certain areas of "dangerous thought" that must be kept from emerging into general discussion. This is one reason why Chicano Studies in our colleges and universities have been rendered ineffective and diverted into the discussion of subjects that are trivial and of no consequence. La Voz de Aztlan, could not imagine, back in the early days of La Raza's struggle for self-determination , that one day MALDEF would be utilized as a tool to squelch the free discussion of issues that affect our political and economic future. http://www.aztlan.net/maldefjews.htm

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-califo
PacificBreeze
04/03/01 at 15:31:21
gasp!!! how scandalous!!! how so very anti-semetic of you, Saleema!!! :P jk.. yeah unfortunately this applies to all over the world.. :( n..i wish we had Campbell (who's 'muslim friendly' and a nonjew)for senator instead! i voted for him! :( just curious, but how on earth, were you aware of such articles? ;)

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
haaris
04/04/01 at 07:45:50
Who exactly are "La Raza" and why have they adopted this name?  If my Spanish serves me well it means "The Race" (as in ethnic rather than athletic). Whilst the article raises some good points, it seems to me that anyone who goes under the banner of "The Race" is (deliberately?) courting controversy.  Perhaps I am misunderstanding them and someone can put me straight.

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
bhaloo
04/04/01 at 09:08:06
slm I thought "La Raza" meant the Reason ? ???

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
haaris
04/04/01 at 09:15:39
"Razon" = reason.  Tener razon (lit. to have reason) = to be right, correct. Dear me, where are the latino brothers and sisters when we need them?  Sr. LaBoogie???

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-califo
PacificBreeze
04/04/01 at 14:45:00
aren't they the southern mexicanos? so it's their political ethnical representing org... the zapista or whatever movement..i've heard of them...some local students are actively involved with their issue.. so in other words, i believe this grp is similar to let's say the MPAC or something...or even a CAIR...but with a hispanic or even a latino slant.. or rather according to it's contents, like MER.. :) obvioulsy they'll be keeping an eye out for their interests...and they've got a genuine concern, no? :) check out their homepage, it says La Raza is a hispanic political party..a militant chicano thing.. anyhow, i'm sure saleema will enlighten us :) side note: mehico is awesomeeeeee..y'all should go visit baja california! it was such a blast! beautiful too! :)

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
akbalkhan
04/04/01 at 15:09:09
As salamu alaika, brothers and sisters- First, la raza, means 'the party.' it refers to the much needed aggregation of Xikano and Mexika voices in politics, economics in the u.s. that was started in the 60's and 70's with the Brown Power Movement.   i think that the article is pointed in the wrong direction however it has good points.  as a Xikano i feel the need to focus any criticism towards the political process and representation process in the u.s. in general and not towards a particular group of people. as a muslim i believe in the eventual redistribution of representation in the political process according the changing demographics and that cali is a hot spot right now, no doubt. but, to non-native americans the terms and the discussions on representation can be confusing.  as a Xikano i am a native north american, however i do not enjoy this status in the u.s. it is a large and continuing injustice in this country to not recognize the sovereignity and legitimacy of Mexicans and Xikanos.  one treaty that was suppose to have preserved my families' and my rights called the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, guaranteed the non-taxation and sustained land holding rights that the mexicans in Utah, Colorado, California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas had at the time.  however, history holds that in between 1848 and today, we have been displaced, taxed, stripped of our sovereignity and places as original people of north america.  while navajo, hopi, crow, cherokee and others native north americans were shoved into reservations, forced to subsist in squalor and then weened off of government funds, mexicans and xicanos(mexicans born in the u.s.), were forced to blend into the u.s. without any status as a native group. today there is a great resurgence among young xikanos and mexicans to learn their native customs and there is growing criticism from these same young people regarding the illegitimacy of the u.s. hegemonic relationship with its native mexican and xikano population. i see much opportunity in the revival of native mexican culture in this hemisphere for the large scale conversion of predominantly christian mexicans to muslims.  and from my study of ancient mexican texts (mexicans being one of few cultures in this hemisphere before Euro's, to have a complex writing, library system) their is evidence that points to one of the 144,000 nabiya alayhis salam, having been sent to mexico. as far as jews and mexicans on some sort of collision course, i think that according to census results, mexicans have been on a collision course with the u.s. for years, and perhaps we are only now seeing clearly some of the wreckage. As Salamu Alaika brothers and sisters Kamar Akbal Khan, Full Moon in a House of Jade-sky

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
Saleema
04/04/01 at 15:23:08
Assalam ualykum, Just because I post controversial articles on here doesn't mean that I support their views. I know you didn't mean anything by it and were only joking around. Recently I have been looking into minority political movement aside from ours (muslims) to see what their issues and concerns are, what their struggles are, what they have achieved so far and how do the eradicate the obstacles in their way. I found this to be interesting becuse the Jewish organizations in the beginning formed alliances witht the blacks and showed them a lot of support during the 60s riots and now they have abandoned them. Mexicans and Hispanics are starting to fight for their rights too now, on a large scale than before and the people that they collide with are the Jews. They have pinpointed their enemy, before they would never have declared who their enemies were so openly, not in the US anyway. African nations and Hispanic nations are anti-Zionist and anti-Israel because they have gone through colonialism and are under the rest of the world's hegemony still. Most are not anti-Jewish, (i hate the term anti-semetic--the arabs are semites too!), there's a difference between being anti-zionist and being anti-jewish. Non-Hispanic Muslims need to take Hispanics as their allies for two reasons: (1) Political support and (2) they will receive Islam well if the efforts are directed in the right way inshallah. Wassalam

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
chachi
04/04/01 at 18:28:00
Posiibly because saleema keeps in contact with our hispanic brothers and sisters and they told her or maybe she got it from msanews? aztlan is quite famous because they have been in the media here in the uk unlike in amrika where the media censors them

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
chachi
04/04/01 at 18:30:33
I think Muslims should support affirmative action for ethnic minority and low income white families period I mean Bush didn't get into Harvard/Yale due to his academic qualifications did he...

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
Saleema
04/05/01 at 09:43:41
Assalam ualykum, Yes, I have Hispanic friends. And I beleive that we should support Affirmative Action too. And subsidized Public Housing for those with low incomes. It will keep a lot of the homeless off of the streets. Wassalam

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
haaris
04/06/01 at 06:41:11
Asalaamu aleikoum, Br Akbalkhan, Jazaka' Allah Khairun for the idiomatic correction.  It's weird how something so slight can induce a whole paradigm shift isn't it? (Dear me, I am sounding like a yank now aren't I!!) Salaam

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
meraj
04/06/01 at 19:32:26
slm, [quote](Dear me, I am sounding like a yank now aren't I!!)[/quote] easy there... watch your step buddy ;) [color=green][sub][center][This post was modified by Meraj on 04/06/01 at 19:32:26]

Re: Jews & Mexicans meet head on in Politcs-california
chachi
04/08/01 at 12:23:17
linguistic paradigm shifts hunh? i guess thats where kuhn meets wittgenstein meets ghazali *lol* anybody wanna do a essay on that?
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