What is logical about this?
It makes sense to be proud of one's heritage even if it's meaningless in reality. I am proud, for example, that my ancestors have the most Neanderthal genes.
What is logical about this?
But honestly, what would retracting it now get him? It's one of those things you say that you can't really unsay esp. when you've said it in so many different ways and repeatedly backed it up.
ok here's a chance for our local drumpf supporters to step up and own this statement from their candidate. c'mon boys, you backed his play so far, back this one, the drumpf ordered you to.
Funny thing is all that needs to be done is I support Trump on many thing but not this.
Like I'll probably vote Hillary but she made a bad call with her email server.
ok here's a chance for our local drumpf supporters to step up and own this statement from their candidate. c'mon boys, you backed his play so far, back this one, the drumpf ordered you to.
It's too late to take back what he said but he could stop saying new stupid things or picking new fights that will keep Trump University in the news.
This has turned into a full on meltdown. Hilarious. He is working overtime to validate every criticism of his temperament. Can you imagine someone this immature in charge of our country?
Funny you don't see a guy determined to buck an insanely liberal bunch of assassins. Who is having the meltdown and where did that concept come from?
Yeah but when you actually spell it out listen to how absurd it sounds: 'I don't like his racist rants and attacks on the judge in charge of overseeing the lawsuit about his scam university but he's still got my vote.'
Yes, funny I don't see it that way, haha. Trump is simply further inflaming the feeding frenzy about Trump University. He's made it much worse than it was because he can't control himself. That's a meltdown to me.
You believe that what you see is a lack of control but what I see is a reaction guaranteed to register as appropriate for all of us stupid common folk who know what we feel. Was Catholic Scalia biased against abortion? Do you take that joker to be objective. Are you the only privileged person with a right to do that.
Yeah but when you actually spell it out listen to how absurd it sounds: 'I don't like his racist rants and attacks on the judge in charge of overseeing the lawsuit about his scam university but he's still got my vote.'
Yeah but when you actually spell it out listen to how absurd it sounds: 'I don't like his racist rants and attacks on the judge in charge of overseeing the lawsuit about his scam university but he's still got my vote.'
And yet, we get that exact same argument from the left every day. Why then does it threaten our very universe if Gonzales says it, but, say, we accept that an all-white jury (even those who are NOT members of a race-based organization) is sufficient grounds for a retrial of a non-white defendant?Here's a total destruction of Gonzalez's op-ed from the Volokh Conspiracy, which is a conservative leaning legal blog:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ous-defense-of-trumps-attack-on-judge-curiel/
Basically, using Gonzales's claims of what constitutes potential bias that could be grounds for recusal would end up with the US court system functionally disappearing. It's a transparently stupid argument, and one that Gonzales seems to have put next to no thought into.
How so? We have a judge who is a member of an organization literally named "The Race Lawyers" and we're expected to accept that a litigant under his authority is the one being racist?You're on the wrong side of this one. Don't dig yourself any deeper, man.
You're a better egg than this.
lol Thanks. All I ask is that racism and racial bias be accepted to have an associative property. If something is racism in one direction, then it must also be racist in the other direction.It is a masterfully intellectually honest comment. Not that's settled we can move on. Jesus Chrirt. What the fuck is wrong with you people. Never mind. I know.
I'm going to take a wild stab and say that 'Mexicans and Muslims can't be judges in cases that involve me' isn't going to be a political winner, haha. I guess time will tell.
ES, lying about what Trump said again. He didn't say they couldn't be judges in his cases.
Lying is great as long as it is about his candidates illegal email usage while SoS and misrepresenting what Trump has actually said.
And yet, we get that exact same argument from the left every day. Why then does it threaten our very universe if Gonzales says it, but, say, we accept that an all-white jury (even those who are NOT members of a race-based organization) is sufficient grounds for a retrial of a non-white defendant?
How so? We have a judge who is a member of an organization literally named "The Race Lawyers" and we're expected to accept that a litigant under his authority is the one being racist?
lol Thanks. All I ask is that racism and racial bias be accepted to have an associative property. If something is racism in one direction, then it must also be racist in the other direction.
Although one can (and often should) certainly argue about the disparate impact of that racism, the underlying definitions HAVE to be exactly the same. Otherwise we are not a nation of law where every man is equal, we are a nation of politically correct whims where some animals are just more equal than others.
How so? We have a judge who is a member of an organization literally named "The Race Lawyers" and we're expected to accept that a litigant under his authority is the one being racist?
I think the phrase is "hold your nose and vote trump"
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/nati...-Grapple-with-Trumps-Candidacy-381955251.html
It amazes me people are still spouting this nonsense. It's a non-partisan professional organization similar to many Asian-American professional organization I'm part of. You provide support and education to others in a profession historically under-represented.How so? We have a judge who is a member of an organization literally named "The Race Lawyers" and we're expected to accept that a litigant under his authority is the one being racist?
The term La Raza has its origins in early 20th century Latin American literature and translates into English most closely as the people or, according to some scholars, as the Hispanic people of the New World. The term was coined by Mexican scholar José Vasconcelos to reflect the fact that the people of Latin America are a mixture of many of the worlds races, cultures, and religions. In contrast, the term Hispanic has its origins in the 1970 U.S. Census, and the term Latino was officially adopted in 1997 by the U.S. Government in the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino.
It amazes me people are still spouting this nonsense. It's a non-partisan professional organization similar to many Asian-American professional organization I'm part of. You provide support and education to others in a profession historically under-represented.
http://sdlrla.com/about/mission-statement/
About their name - it really does appear to be a 'lost in translation' issue.
Aside from the fact that their most "explosive" action appears to have been awarding scholarships to nearly all LAC students, it's amazing how much air this continues to have.
That is a blatant and easily reputed lie. The Spanish word for people is "pueblo", from the Latin "populous". "Raza", possibly from the Latin "radix" (meaning tribe) though possibly also coined within one Romance language and spread throughout the others.Lovely false equivalency. It's not the racial makeup that matters, it's the blatant exclusion of black jurors because they're black-
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...s-out-death-sentence-from-all-white-jury.html
The SCOTUS ruling was 7-1, indicating that you're full of shit up to your eyeballs.
"La Raza" doesn't mean "the race" in Spanish & is deliberately mistranslated for the purposes of propaganda-
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=La Raza
It means "the people".
Like Dogbert, you need a lot of wagging room for that.
lol As much as you guys NEED it to mean "the people", it simply doesn't. It means "the race", and it is far, far older than early twentieth century. Are you guys somehow under the impression that Spanish is some arcane recent construct, as inherently unknowable as the meaning of the word "is"? It's a Romance language descended from Latin, and outside of political needs is well understood and has been for hundreds of years.It amazes me people are still spouting this nonsense. It's a non-partisan professional organization similar to many Asian-American professional organization I'm part of. You provide support and education to others in a profession historically under-represented.
http://sdlrla.com/about/mission-statement/
About their name - it really does appear to be a 'lost in translation' issue.
Aside from the fact that their most "explosive" action appears to have been awarding scholarships to nearly all LAC students, it's amazing how much air this continues to have.
lol As much as you guys NEED it to mean "the people", it simply doesn't. It means "the race", and it is far, far older than early twentieth century. Are you guys somehow under the impression that Spanish is some arcane recent construct, as inherently unknowable as the meaning of the word "is"? It's a Romance language descended from Latin, and outside of political needs is well understood and has been for hundreds of years.
Hell, "la raza humana" would mean the people people.
lol As much as you guys NEED it to mean "the people", it simply doesn't. It means "the race", and it is far, far older than early twentieth century. Are you guys somehow under the impression that Spanish is some arcane recent construct, as inherently unknowable as the meaning of the word "is"? It's a Romance language descended from Latin, and outside of political needs is well understood and has been for hundreds of years.
Hell, "la raza humana" would mean the people people.
The Name
Many people incorrectly translate the name, La Raza, as the race. While it is true that one meaning of raza in Spanish is indeed race, in Spanish, as in English and any other language, words can and do have multiple meanings. As noted in several online dictionaries, La Raza means the people or the community.
Translating our name as the race is not only inaccurate, it is factually incorrect. Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. As anyone who has ever met a Dominican American, Mexican American, or Spanish American can attest, Hispanics can be and are members of any and all races.
The term La Raza has its origins in early 20th century Latin American literature and translates into English most closely as the people or, according to some scholars, as the Hispanic people of the New World. The term was coined by Mexican scholar José Vasconcelos to reflect the fact that the people of Latin America are a mixture of many of the worlds races, cultures, and religions. In contrast, the term Hispanic has its origins in the 1970 U.S. Census, and the term Latino was officially adopted in 1997 by the U.S. Government in the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino.
Mistranslating La Raza to mean the race implies that it is a term meant to exclude others. In fact, the full term coined by Vasconcelos, La Raza Cósmica, meaning the cosmic people, was developed to reflect not purity but the mixture inherent in the Hispanic people. This is an inclusive concept, meaning that Hispanics share with all other peoples of the world a common heritage and destiny.
And this is not just SDLRLAs interpretation. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, La Raza means:
Mexicans or Mexican Americans considered as a group, sometimes extending to all Spanish-speaking people of the Americas.
Furthermore, MSNBCs online Spanish-English website, Encarta, translates the term this way:
Hispanic Spanish-speakers in the Americas: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, or Spanish-speaking people of the Americas, considered as a group.
The Free Dictionary, available online, similarly finds that the term La Raza:
embodies the notion that traditional, exclusive concepts of race and nationality can be transcended in the name of humanitys common destiny.