Making Texas (sorry, I mean Tejas) great again?

[zinfamous]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/0...media-s-not-what-la-raza-means-spanish/210786

Hush you! Monolingual White conservative racists damn well know far more about the Spanish language and Hispanic culture and their interests groups than even they do themselves, and those racists sure will let you know how right they are!

Edit: Oh look, he already did.

 

[brycejones]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raza_Unida_Party

They are fucking racists.

Awesome some fringe party from the 70s. Not exactly the national association of la Razia or the lawyers group the judge belonged to. In other words you swung and missed.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

Houstonian here.

I remember looking at the demographics in Houston (http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/Demographics/docs_pdfs/Cy/coh_race_ethn_1980-2010.pdf) and Seeing white population is going down (May be moving to the outer suburbs of Houston that are technically their own cities), black/asian population are roughly staying the same, and hispanic populations are booming.

As far as the city itself? Heavily self segregated. A lot of the poor areas in town were gentrified and turned into Hipster/Yuppie paradises, tons of areas where everything is in spanish, and then little vietnam and such. http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/comparinator/pluralitymap.htm?metro=houston

It's all interesting to say the least.

 

[squarecut1]

I was reading this news reporters' piece on his experience with intermingling with folks at a Trump rally. One of the guys he encountered said that he was sick of seeing a taco stand every five minutes. Ok, I get that. But what would Trump do about it? Will he have another ban among the various other bans he is fond of - that is, banning Hispanics from reproducing?

 

[K1052]

I was reading this news reporters' piece on his experience with intermingling with folks at a Trump rally. One of the guys he encountered said that he was sick of seeing a taco stand every five minutes. Ok, I get that. But what would Trump do about it? Will he have another ban among the various other bans he is fond of - that is, banning Hispanics from reproducing?

What kind of monster could hate tacos?

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Awesome some fringe party from the 70s. Not exactly the national association of la Razia or the lawyers group the judge belonged to. In other words you swung and missed.

While they may not be directly linked, they share the same goals and were formed out of the same movement, and in 1994 the Natinal Council of La Raza gave the founder of the La Raza Unida Party, Jose Angel Gutierrez, their “Chicano Hero Award.” The lawyer group is directly connected with the NCLR. All these groups containing La Raza in their name are racist and have the same goals.

The Hispanic advocacy organization known as the National Council of La Raza grew from the radical Chicano movement of the late 1960s, which was inspired in part by Mexican intellectual Jose Vasconcelos and his notion of “la raza cosmica,” a superior “cosmic” race resulting from the intermingling of the Indians of Latin America with the Spanish.

According to a backgrounder from the Center for Immigration Studies by journalist Jerry Kammer, La Raza retains more than a vestige of its roots. Aside from clinging to its name, “the race,” with its linkage to a militant Latino motto, “For the race, everything, outside the race, nothing,” La Raza gave its 1994 “Chicano Hero Award” to Jose Angel Gutierrez, a political-science professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, and a past director of its Mexican-American Studies Center, who memorably said in 1969, “We have got to eliminate the beloved patriot, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.”

In 2004, La Raza’s Chicano hero spoke at the “Latino Civil Rights Summit” in Kansas City, where he stated: “We are the future of America. Unlike any prior generation, we now have the critical mass. We’re going to Latinize this country.”

One is more militant than the other, but they have mutual respect for each other.

 

[agent00f]

Then I would have to say you are oblivious to your surroundings.

I work the typical white collar job. I'm up by 6, at the office by 8. I get home at 7. Cook, cleanup, maybe get a quick workout in and oh look it's 10:00, time to go to sleep unless you want to feel like shit the next day.

Where in any of that (as a daily life) do you expect there to be time for making babies?

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Amusingly ironic that capitalism would be the downfall of (white) western society.

While they may not be directly linked, they share the same goals and were formed out of the same movement, and in 1994 the Natinal Council of La Raza gave the founder of the La Raza Unida Party, Jose Angel Gutierrez, their “Chicano Hero Award.” The lawyer group is directly connected with the NCLR. All these groups containing La Raza in their name are racist and have the same goals.

One is more militant than the other, but they have mutual respect for each other.

Since you're never going to get it unless someone were rather explicit, that someone might as well be me. In the original post you replied to, werepossum was being facetious about the word perhaps in the hopes that some herp derp comes along and take it seriously. That happened to be you, a victim of friendly fire which in all fairness he should've anticipated given the target profile.

 

[sontakke]

It has been declared "inevitable" that Texas will become a purple state within 2 or 3 more election cycles, and likely another Blue stronghold for several cycles after that, assuming both parties continue on their current paths and the various factors that neither party can control (economic and demographic shifts) continue on as they are.

Aside from the growing Latino populations, Texas is a big tech hub in certain areas and while they host some very large, very important education centers, they are only fairly recently becoming important on an international scale. Anytime you have large population centers with a highly-educated workforce, you have liberally-inclined people. This is simply a fact of humanity, and especially the US.

Added to that, the large influx of people moving from CA (much to the strange delight of native Texans--some sort of "haha! you liberals moving from hell to enjoy our freedom!" that is about to bite them in the ass) is going to have no small influence in political alignment.

This is why Colorado is a battleground state, and why my home state, NC, is still considered mildly purple from the 2008 election and beyond (a few decades of northeasterners moving down for work at RTP, along with the same education/tech centers that bring such politically-minded people).

Education and tech innovation represent progress. The only way to survive as a relevant state is to promote both of these things. Sadly, for the conservative-minded regressive types, this means more progressively-minded individuals develop an interest in living in such places, when the work attracts them there.

+1000; This needs to be reposted every day until people start getting it.

 

[squarecut1]

It has been declared "inevitable" that Texas will become a purple state within 2 or 3 more election cycles, and likely another Blue stronghold for several cycles after that, assuming both parties continue on their current paths and the various factors that neither party can control (economic and demographic shifts) continue on as they are.

Aside from the growing Latino populations, Texas is a big tech hub in certain areas and while they host some very large, very important education centers, they are only fairly recently becoming important on an international scale. Anytime you have large population centers with a highly-educated workforce, you have liberally-inclined people. This is simply a fact of humanity, and especially the US.

Added to that, the large influx of people moving from CA (much to the strange delight of native Texans--some sort of "haha! you liberals moving from hell to enjoy our freedom!" that is about to bite them in the ass) is going to have no small influence in political alignment.

This is why Colorado is a battleground state, and why my home state, NC, is still considered mildly purple from the 2008 election and beyond (a few decades of northeasterners moving down for work at RTP, along with the same education/tech centers that bring such politically-minded people).

Education and tech innovation represent progress. The only way to survive as a relevant state is to promote both of these things. Sadly, for the conservative-minded regressive types, this means more progressively-minded individuals develop an interest in living in such places, when the work attracts them there.

I think you are right to a certain extent, but some of the most dire places I see in big Texas cities are solidly Democratic. Those run by what are called progressives in our country. Places / counties which are a cesspool of corruption and mismanagement, all by the so called progressives. Places where most people even from third world countries would never want to live in.

 

[Indus]

I was going through my old CD collection and I found something I used to listen to in my youth.

I found a song that so perfectly describes in 1 line what the problem with our country is today.. how's that for serendipity and prophecy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnzdT_qjaaI

Hey

Detroit got stupid, it was time to blow
I can't dig people when they play control
I rocked to Manhattan and what'd I see
Some great big buildings that could set me free

The bars are open all night
But that damn AIDS test got me so up tight
I said that damn AIDS test got me so uptight

Pay your money to the landlord
Donald Trump is just a money whore
Under my bed there's a baseball bat
Goddamn taxes gonna break my back

I'm in the wasteland, I'm in the wasteland
I'm in the wasteland, I'm in the wasteland
I'm in the wasteland, mama you know it's true
No motherfucker's gonna tell me what to do
I'm in the wasteland

The gangs are doin' drive-by's in L.A.
Quinn is drillin' ink and we're gettin' laid
Your shotgun cops are goin' to hell
L.A.P.D's got an awful smell

In Hollywood the scene's all there
Tommie's always got the drugs to go on a bender
Every time I go I never wanna come back
Breathe the summer air, you'll have a heart attack

You're in the wasteland, you're in the wasteland
You're in the wasteland, you're in the wasteland
You don't buy what the government sells
The goddamn President can go to hell
You're in the wasteland

Here we go

I can't live unless I'm free
You've gotta run to stay with me
I move from town to town
I'm livin' on the underground

Hey baby, come with me
I meet a lot of good company
To beat the system move around
It's the only way to freedom today

Find your freedom today
Find your freedom today
Find your freedom today
Find your freedom today

If I make bail, tell you where I'll go
Gonna cross the border into Mexico
Tequila's cheap as sunshine
Wind up bangin' everythin' in sight
I'm free and that's a fact
Once I leave I ain't never comin' back

I'm in the wasteland, I'm in the wasteland
I'm in the wasteland, I'm in the wasteland
I'm in the wasteland, yeah, I'm in the wasteland, yeah
I'm in the wasteland, yeah, I'm in the wasteland, yeah
I'm in the wasteland

Funny how that explains all my trips abroad and I still keep going as often as I can.

Strange it was written 26 years ago but it has more truth today!