La Raza

[lwoolley]

How's this for sheer hypocrisy? An organization that identifies itself by
race and that promotes militant racism and denounces as "racist" American
citizens who merely insists that our government enforce our borders. The National
Council of La Raza means National Council of the Race. "The Race" in this
instance refers to people of Mexican descent. Last year's La Raza conference in
Los Angeles features a presentation by Joanna Mendelson - investigative
reporter with the Anti-Defamation League of California entitled "Keeping Our
Institutuions Safe".

Sam Antonio, national immigration spokesman for the John Birch Society
attended the conference as a correspondent for the New American Magazine. He
described the ADL program as a vicious example of the sandwich smear: "Responsible,
patriotic organizations such as the Minutemen were repeatedly cited as
"virulent" and "anti-Hispanic", and grouped together with the Ku Klux Klan and
neo-Nazi groups.

The ADL slide show particularly focused on Mrs. Barbara Coe, the head of the
California Coalition for Immigration Reform. "Mrs. Coe was mentioned by name
several times as though she were some dangerous Public Enemy No. 1," said
Antonio. "I know Barbara very well. She's a wonderful lady who has done
tremendous work to secure our borders, certainly not the racist ogre the ADL and La
Raza try to make her out to be." When informed that she had been singled out at
the La Raza conference, Mrs. Coe replied, "I guess it could be considered an
honor of sorts to be singled out for attack by the real racist, the leaders of
La Raza."

Sincerely,

Floyd T. Martin