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Thread ID: 8092 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-07-13
2003-07-13 21:36 | User Profile
** Uncontrolled Mexican Invasion: "La Raza" gather in thousands to plan political takeover
U.S. Latinos now number 38.8 million, making them this country's largest minority group. Their population grew by 3.5 million between the 2000 Census and July 2002 alone. In Texas, about one in every three people is Latino.
Democratic presidential candidates Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas; and U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, among others will attend to kiss Mexican "tacos"
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2003-07-13 23:40 | User Profile
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CONTINUED GROWTH OF U.S. LATINO POPULATION POINTS TO OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Washington, DC ââ¬â The U.S. Latino population grew 9.8% between the 2000 Census and July 1, 2002, reaching an all-time high of 38.8 million people, according to new national population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Hispanics accounted for one-half of the nation's population increase since April 1, 2000. The growth among Latinos is roughly equally due to both immigration and natural increase by births. The estimates released today confirm previous projections that the nation's Hispanic community would soon become the nation's largest ethnic minority group.
In addition, a report profiling the socioeconomic characteristics of the Hispanic population, also released today, shows both promising and troubling signs. For example, more than one-quarter (26.3%) of Latinos who worked full-time, year-round earned more than $35,000 last year, reflecting the strong work ethic, earnings capability, and asset-building potential among this community. However, that proportion is half as much as that of non-Hispanic Whites (53.8%) who earned at least that amount, highlighting a large and worrisome disparity. Additionally, one in five (21.4%) Latinos is poor, and while Hispanic children represent 17.7% of all children in this nation, they constitute 30.4% of all children in poverty.
"These data have significant implications for our community. They reflect our growth, both in size and influence. However, they also shed light on areas for investment," noted NCLR President Raul Yzaguirre. "Disparities in areas like earnings and poverty highlight the continued importance of collecting data by race and ethnicity," Yzaguirre said. This is especially relevant given recent efforts, such as the ballot initiative in California, to prohibit the collection or analysis of information by race and ethnicity. Such steps threaten to undermine the ability of elected officials and other community leaders to identify and solve the problems facing Latinos and all other Americans. "We need this kind of information to genuinely address the issues facing the Hispanic community. The value of these data in telling the story about Latinos compels us to fight efforts to disregard our nationââ¬â¢s diversity, for it is one of our greatest strengths," concluded Yzaguirre.
2003-07-13 23:59 | User Profile
I lived in San Jose, CA when they erected that giant dogpile-like statue of Quetzlcoatl. Anyone who bothered to think about it for even a moment knew that the claims that it was commemorating the area's "Hispanic heritage" were a lie. If they wanted to do that, they could have put up a statue of one of the Mission fathers, or of some old, prominent Californio like Vallejo. But that would be celebrating Europeans, when the point was "People of the Sun" racial nationalism. A statue of Quetzlcoatl in California is like a statue of Odin in Minnesota - it has nothing to do with the beliefs or culture of anyone who ever lived in those areas.
2003-07-14 00:43 | User Profile
How many statues of Quetzlcoatl are there in large Mexican cities? It's called devolution when the dimwitted alien mestizos are allowed to openly proclaim their plans on taking over American territory and accepted as mainstream (and pandered to by politicians).