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Posted on 10/14/2003 11:47:00 AM PDT by Spiff
California DMV Contact Information
The Director of the DMV is Steven Gourley -- (916) 657 6941
His boss is Secretary Maria Contreras-Sweet Business, Transportation and Housing Agency -- (916) 323-5400
Not only is California DMV claiming that they are closed for some racist holiday called "Day of the Race", but they are claiming differently in the English language announcement.
Strike while the iron's hot. The press has been covering Bustamante's MEChA connections - this might be something the press will pick up too. We need to expose the racism being practiced by certain groups like MEChA, La Raza, and others. So, FReep these jokers and disseminate to your media contacts.
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I have no recording. I think the message is gone as the holiday was yesterday.
Try this article on for size:
Dia de la Raza
Celebrate and renew our commitment to community
By Carlos G. RodriguezCertain voices from the American past, long past, sound very futuristic. For example, the ancient voice that still tells us we are children of the earth and that our mother is not for sale or for hire.
In New Mexico, the Isleta and Cochiti Pueblo Indians salute this ancient voice. These tribes tell their children that if they bring harm to each other or to anything belonging to the earth, the Water People will take them. Each year, during their respective feast days, many Pueblo men paint themselves in bold black and gray stripes (from head to toe) and pay their "Water People-visits" to the children. The parents of the misbehaving children give gifts to the Water People in the hopes that they will not take their children. Although the children have different offenses, they are clearly united in their renewed respect for each other and Mother Earth!
The Latino community as a whole is extremely diverse - from Salvadorans to Mexicans to Puerto Ricans to Dominicans. Like the Pueblo children, in spite of their diversity, Latinos are united by many common experiences. Forged through discrimination, language, culture and resistance, our experiences transcend national origins. All our struggles have attempted to bring life into balance and into line with our natural tendency toward community. What has marked these struggles?
The capitalist system this continent has been burdened with for centuries marked these struggles through the pitting of people against each other. Through legislation and warfare it has brought disharmony to human relations. In response, people have attempted to reform, resist and curtail its excesses. A Civil Rights Movement was born. Bilingual education was promoted. All the time, however, the capitalists maintained their rule through bribery. They point to the Latina professional here or the Latino legislator over there as examples of advancement. But the capitalist system is one of detachment: to keep silenced people isolated from participating in controlling which way society should go.
What stamps the struggle for Latinos entering the 21st Century? Today, resistance goes beyond being Latino. A new way of life is trying to emerge which calls into question the very principals of capitalism's "culture of money." People are being compelled to cooperate, regardless of race or gender, in order to survive. A new idea is being seized: the material basis for a paradise on earth exists and we are on the brink of realizing it! People instinctively know that there is no justification for anyone to starve, for any child to be homeless and for anyone to go without medical care. What blocks us from moving forward are the old, outdated ideas of "dog-eat-dog" or "looking out for number one."
A new voice is arising which is calling forth another world different from this one that poisons the water, soil, air and soul. This voice, one that the Zapatistas of Mexico have embraced so courageously, calls for a communal vision of the future. The call is not only for resistance to the culture of money, but demands we create a vision of the future that brings us back into balance with our natural tendencies.
"The ancient voice that speaks to us of community heralds another world as well," writes Eduardo Galeano in his Book of Embraces. "Community - the communal mode of production and life - is the oldest of American traditions, the most American of all. It belongs to the earliest days and the first people, but it also belongs to the times ahead and anticipates a new New World. For there is nothing less alien to these lands of ours than socialism. Capitalism, on the other hand, is foreign: like smallpox, like the flu, it came from abroad."
The MEChA and La Raza Atzlan warriors have put an anti-Columbus racist face onto this holiday.
The proper name for Columbus day in Spanish is "Día De Columbus", not "Día De la Raza".
Columbus Day draws protest
By Greg Romero
Contributing Reporter
http://www.azteca.net/aztec/mecha/ya10_13_95.htmlMembers of MEChA, Yale's Mexican-American student organization, gathered in yesterday's early-morning chill to chalk anti-Columbus Day slogans on Cross Campus and Old Campus walkways.
Group members met at Old Campus's High Street gate at 1:30 a.m. to protest the celebration of Columbus Day. After a brief meeting, students dispersed to scrawl such messages as "Celebrate the survivors," "Rethink Columbus Day," and "Whose holiday is it?" across campus.
Emotions ran high as members of Movimiento Estudantil Chicano de Aztlan lined stone pathways all over campus with their messages.
"If we had come to your home, stolen your land, made you speak our language, and raped and murdered your family, would you celebrate our coming?" Danielle Garcia '96 said.
Other MEChA members said their primary aim was to refute the perception of Christopher Columbus as a hero. "Why are we celebrating the deaths of 20 million? Why celebrate Columbus? It's not right that this country celebrates the legacy of a murderer," Anna Maria Garza '97 said as she worked on a chalking.
"Columbus did not discover this country. How could he have found a land that had been inhabited for centuries? It makes no sense," Garza added.
Several students walking on Cross Campus yesterday morning questioned the relevance of the slogans.
"It's difficult for me to see the connection between the present social problems of our country and the fact that a holiday is named after an explorer who is now perceived as evil," Tom Piernikowski '99 said. "He may or may not have been, but what is taking away Columbus Day going to do for the country?"
Others who saw the campus chalkings responded more positively to the messages they represented.
"I think it is important that people see that there are two sides to this issue. I think it will create a dialogue that will hopefully be meaningful," Randolph Cardona '99 said as he walked across Old Campus.
Members of the group said their main goal was to spark discussion of the holiday. "We're expecting a lot of reaction and a lot of shock. People who think this is just empty social protest are wrong," Alegria De La Cruz '97 said. "We've done a lot to promote awareness of our group and our issues. The important thing is that we get a dialogue going and we educate people."
Other members of the group proposed an alternative to Columbus Day, advocating a celebration of racial unity -- Dia de la Raza Cosmica (Day of the Cosmic Race).
"Dia de la Raza Cosmica is a celebration of the coming together of the two races, to form one, the cosmic race," said one MEChA member who did not wish to be identified. "It emphasizes that there is a real mix of peoples and cultures, not just European dominance."
La Voz de la Raza
Austin ChronicleThe Texas chapter of Coordinadora 2000, a national coalition of Latino and other grassroots minority groups, rallied at the state Capitol on Sunday, Oct. 12 (Dia de la Raza) in support of civil and human rights. The coalition held similar protests around the country. In Austin, about 1,000 people marched to the Capitol, with many young marchers explaining their participation in two words: Lino Graglia, the University of Texas professor who suggested during a recent news conference that blacks and Latinos cannot compete in higher education because their cultures are inferior. His remarks sparked angry protests at UT, and calls for his resignation.
Marcelo Tafoya, a member of Coordinadora 2000's Austin committee, said that the group's central objective is to encourage Latinos to vote in the 2000 presidential election. The coalition is non-partisan but promotes a distinctly liberal political agenda. Francis Bazan, a senior citizen who participated in the Austin rally, said she joined Sunday's march because she remembers when Hispanics were not welcome downtown, recalling one restaurant that used to post a sign that read: "No Mexicans and no dogs." "It's so emotional, but it's true," Bazan said. "We've attained some respect, but we're still waiting for justice."
Also Sunday, New York leaders of Coordinadora 2000 rallied outside the United Nations building to protest attacks on affirmative action and social welfare programs, and to show their support for immigrants rights. In Chicago, about 400 marchers chanted pro-immigrant slogans and protested the Oct. 23 deadline for some immigrants to either pay $1,000 and apply for a visa or leave the country.
About 70,000 supporters of Coordinadora 2000 rallied in Washington last year on Dia de la Raza to protest what they regard as anti-immigrant and anti-poor government initiatives. The group was formed in response to California's Prop. 187 -- a voter-approved initiative designed to ban illegal immigrants from access to state funded services, including public education. Implementation of the ballot initiative has been stalled by court challenges.
For information about Coordinadora's upcoming events, call Raul Garcia in Austin at 282-4430, or visit the group's website at http://www.coordinadora.org. -- J.G.
Marchers proclaim 'Brown power' on El Dia de la Raza
Jennifer Valentino
The Daily Texan
October 13, 1997
http://www.tsp.utexas.edu/centennial/01109909_s07_October.htmlHispanic leaders stressed the need for unity in the fight against racism as they held a rally at the Capitol Sunday celebrating El Dia de la Raza.
In spite of the rain, thousands of people marched from Austin's Fiesta Gardens to the steps of the state Capitol Sunday carrying picket signs reading "Brown Power," "Latino Children Need Equal Access to Education" and "Chicano Power" and chanting "Viva la Raza" and "Human rights for all."
El Dia de la Raza celebrates Hispanic culture and ancestry, specifically those native to the Americas.
The rally, which took almost a year to plan, was designed to promote unity within the Hispanic community and call attention to political issues important to Hispanics.
"Unity and education in our culture are the most important things," said Lupita Pacheco, one of the event coordinators. "We need to be fully informed of the issues, and we need to make an impact on elected officials."
Pacheco said student involvement is especially important to the Hispanic community, adding that she hoped that the rally would make "University students feel more united to their elders."
On the steps of the Capitol, many speakers denounced institutional racism and called for action against those in power who hold racist views.
"In this Divided States of America, we are still encountering racism," said Oscar de la Torre, a UT public affairs graduate student.
"We see it in Proposition 187, Proposition 209, and in the Hopwood decision."
Proposition 187 is a California law that prevents illegal immigrants from receiving publicly funded benefits such as health care and education. Proposition 209, which was enacted this year, banned affirmative action in public employment and education in California.
De la Torre said Hispanics must have unity if they want to achieve their goals.
"We must fight. We must organize. We must work together," he said.
Antonio Diaz, who spoke on behalf of the group Mestizos en Marcha, said civil disobedience was the best way to fight against government racism.
Many of the speakers addressed the comments made by UT Law Professor Lino Graglia last month.
"This gentleman at the law school reminds us that there are still many racists out there," said Judge Albert Pena, adding that Hispanics should let elected officials know that they will not tolerate such racism.
Speakers also denounced restrictive immigration laws and called for a decrease in the amount of military forces on the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Our border has been invaded, and not by someone else," said the Rev. Melvin La Follette. "Our border has been invaded by our own military forces." La Follette spoke of the death of Ezequiel Hernandez Jr., a high school sophomore who was mistakenly shot by Marines patrolling the Texas border.
Got it? It is obvious that Christopher Columbus has been removed from the Dia De la Raza celebration and it has been replaced in America with a racist holiday about "brown power" and how the evil white man has invaded and is oppressing the poor Xicanos.
1)You made up the title.
2)Your title is inaccurate and misleading.
Neither problem would have occured if you had simply followed the rules when posting :)
The title is neither inaccurate nor misleading. A day celebrating "The Race" is by definition racist. That the CA DMV phone recording would say in English "Columbus Day" but in Spanish "Day of The Race" demonstrates that the DMV was telling its Spanish callers that they were off for the racist holiday. This disparity between what they are telling their English callers and what they are telling their Spanish callers has been "exposed" and they should be FReeped on that account.
If the "race" in question were an automible race you could easily see your error and that's the problem with the assumptions in your vanity title.
Raza is tranlated to mean race in English but the words have different meanings in the two languages.
At best the DMV is guilty of a case of over active PC and at worst a case of cultural pandering.
The reason for tagging you is my near anger over Clinton's success in brainwashing even Freepers into believeing that a racial assignment is now justified on the basis of cultural heritage, ethnicity, religious beliefs and skin color and thereby increased the ability to raise a wedge issue, the ability to accuse almost anyone of being a racist.
Most educated Mexicans understand that the modal Mexican is racially classifed as a subset of European Caucasoids. They are caucasion. Those who started the movement used a conveinent Spanish word which portends that anyone from a different ansectory is of another race.
Here's an example that may help you better understand my point. The word "American" which we in the US use very casually to mean a US citizen but is literally anyone living in North or South America from the perspective of Canadians, Guatamalans, Bolivians and Brasilians to name but a few.
Because of my anti-illegal immigration and border protection stance I have been called a racist by these losers. Yet it is they who represent one of the most racist groups in this country right now.
This crap is intolerable. It is Orwellian. I get called a racist by the racists. California DMV claims they're taking the "Day of The Race" off.
One more try.
They are not racists. They are ignorant, cultural bigots.
They are the enemy of our culture, yet desire to adopt many aspects of our culture and benefit from it.
If you want to "stop the madness" find someone, anyone to challange Bush and all thirty of the Democrats in the upcomming presidential primary. Any reasonable candidte who can sieze upon the abuses of our current immigration policies will be a serious threat to all those good old boys who are pandering to the emerging Hispanic voting block.
Even "made" Hispanics are frightened by the economic threat and potential backlash that the unrelenting masses from Mexico represent to their little piece of the American dream.
I agree, Spiff, we should Freep those State employees who are hired and paid by our tax money, loud and proud!
Perhaps, we should also call our State Senators and Assemblymen.
I'm sick of State bureaucrat social engineers forcing a foreign language down our throats. It's the English, stupido!
Yes, except that they hate white people and trumpet the brown or bronze "race".
You have summed up very well the modus operandi of MEChA and other reconquista groups. Yet, our borders are still wide open, everybody is accepting the intruders' fake ID cards (matricula consular), giving them drivers licenses or free tuition, etc. We're cutting our own throats.
There is an inexhaustable supply of new Aztlan warrior recruits arriving daily, pouring over the border like an invading army. Do the math. My friend JackelopeBreeder did and here's what he came up with. The Border Patrol estimates they apprehended around 932,000 intruders along the US/Mexican border over the last fiscal year. This number is fairly consistant over the last 5 years. The BP also estimates that they only catch 1 out of 5 who cross the border. So, 3.6 million per year times 5 years gives us 18 million for just the last 5 years. That would mean that given these numbers, the number of illegals living the United States that is often quoted is just plain wrong - there are far more than 8-10 million here right now. And they're not here just to mow lawns, pick lettuce, and do day labor. We're being quietly conquered.
Amazing such literal and overt racism gets a pass.
Thanks for the post!
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