From 1969, they could never do what Arafat did with only Mexican membership. Arafat recruited his terrorists from ALL the Arab nations surrounding Israel.
Enter MEChA. Get militant. Get rowdy. Partner up with established terrorists. Make threats and demands on them damn gringos until you get something. Anything. Because THEN you become "legitimate." Just like a "palestinian."
From 1969 until now, the LaRaza Unida Party, aka, MEChA, aka LaRaza Commission Center, invited ALL the "similar" people they once desparaged to join, continued to evolve into National Council of LaRaza and became a "unity" struggle for ALL Spanish speaking peoples. They have copied the palestinian model right down to their fabricated "history" which is without any foundation or basis in reality.
It is poison they have rammed down the throats of children for thirty-six years and realize that those children are now in THEIR thirties themselves and this has become their reality as surely as the Arabs' vision of "palestine."
Tier 1 is the poorest and most uneducated, increasingly illegal, Latinos up to MEChA student organizations recruiting on campus, pronouncing solidarity with the radical Islamist groups for purposes of anti-white, anti-America, and anti-Israel protest. They reach deep into the self-imposed segregation of their "communities" to the youngest of children using exactly the same kinds of hate rhetoric you will see in any Jihadi organization which teaches from the top down while supposedly promoting (providing) education, providing healthcare to those who could receive it elsewhere but are "taught" not to, KEEPING them poor and uneducated to control the population. THIS LINK is La Raza in 2004 from one of their "news bulletins."
If you don't want to click the link on their page to see LaRaza and Arafat in "the old days," I'll save you the trouble.
La Raza and Arafat in the old days
LA RAZA MISSION STATEMENT
The history of La Raza Commission Center is one that was conceived and fostered by student political activism. La Raza Commission Center was originally founded by Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan (M.E.Ch.A.) in 1981. M.E.Ch.A. was born out of the barrios in 1969, at the height of U.S. social unrest as communities of color demanded social and economic justice. M.E.Ch.A. formulated its direction from the barrios, committed to grass roots organizing and taking actions on behalf of its communities. M.E.Ch.A. Commission changed its name to La Raza Commission Center in 1997 to ensure inclusion amongst all Latin@s and breakdown nationality division as we see social and economic issues and concerns in Latin@ communities related and interconnected.
Although the name of the Commission has changed to La Raza to make all Latin@s feel included and to develop a comprehensive understanding of Latin America, its political philosophies remain parallel to M.E.Ch.A. Political alignment with M.E.Ch.A. philosophies maintain a progressive effort to improve the conditions of our communities.
The long and short of it,is that NCLR has gained mainstream acceptance exactly like the nonexistent "palestinians" and have now become an exceedingly strong political voice with ties to established politicians, and are catered to even though they maintain their support of MEChA in the barrios and on college campuses across the US JUST like Muslim America, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, aka Islamic Jihad.
PS, Note Obama's teleprompter. Even there....