Biden Census Pick Santos Recalls Government Slush Fund for National Council of La Raza
Inspired by a racist tract, rebranded nonprofit remains cozy with government
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Biden pick Robert Santos, a “Latinx statistician,” is being hailed as the nation’s first “census director of color.” If embattled Americans find that puzzling, they might take a look at the Biden pick’s actual record.
The Texas-born Santos serves as vice president of the Urban Institute, where “his specialty areas include undocumented immigrants and other disadvantaged populations.” In 2007, Santos co-authored “Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children,” a publication (pdf) that was produced for the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), an organization with origins that Americans might find troubling.
Mexican Americans Speak Up in Pollak Library’s Special Collection April 29, 2021 Share This:
This illustration from the California Librarian, the January 1973 special issue on Chicano Library Service, is by Jorge Enciso s Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico, Dover Publications, 1953.
Daisy Gomez-Fuentes listened in awe to an audio-visual recording of Chicano activist Rudy Acuña speaking to a group of Cal State Fullerton students in May 1974. The lecture gave her insights into the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and ’70s.
“He spoke about the cultural conflicts that Chicanx students faced in academia,” said Gomez-Fuentes, a Chicana and Chicano studies major and daughter of Mexican immigrants.
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At a time when the economy remains in tatters, the coronavirus continues to kill, and Texas is colder than Stephen Miller’s heart, does Joe Biden
really need to worry about what we call those who are in this country illegally?
Oh yeah.
So say
adiós to any official mention of “assimilation,” and
hola to “civic integration.” Time to replace “alien” with “noncitizen.” And “illegal alien,” the harsh-sounding couplet that conjures up images of intergalactic invasions? Biden’s team wants his people to instead go with “undocumented noncitizen” or “undocumented individual.”
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The move has triggered expected responses from the Left and Right the former applauds the move as a humanistic touch after four years of Trumpian ugliness, while the latter cries PC Reconquista. It’s a test balloon for the rancor to come as President Biden tries to push through the first immigration amnesty in 35 years. A dust-up over language will seem l
By: Herman Baca
Fifty years later, I can still vividly remember what happened to me personally and politically in Los Angeles, California on August 29, 1970.
At the time, I was 27 years old, today I’m 77.
Herman Baca
In those 50 years, many persons I knew that marched in the Chicano Moratorium are no longer with us. In other words,
“An era is slowly, but surely coming to an end.”
In 1970 unlike 2020 La Raza was a minute minority, known to U.S. institutions as the,
“Forgotten, silent & invisible minority,” today we number 70 million Chicanos/Mexicanos/Latinos.
In 1970, thirty to forty thousand Chicanos from throughout the U.S. marched in the streets to protest and call for an end to the war in Vietnam. A war, like Afghanistan today, that was destroying our most precious legacy, our youth.