Tancredo: La Raza Is 'Latino KKK Without The Hoods Or Nooses'

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The liberal media ignores it. Shame.

It's an inconvenient truth...

However, the actions of a portion of a population, should not taint the whole population. Something to be considered by all sides.

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[Ban Hammer 13,366]

The liberal media ignores it. Shame.

It's an inconvenient truth...

maybe they hate poor black people.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

The liberal media ignores it. Shame.

It's an inconvenient truth...

maybe they hate poor black people.

Black people are so last decade.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The word racist is tossed about ignorantly.

Bingo!

So can we add newt Gingrich and tom tancredo to the ranks of the intellectually lazy?

[almaty 19]

But it is also one of the nation's oldest mainstream Hispanic advocacy groups, with 300 neighborhood affiliates and corporate sponsorship that includes Citigroup.

And it has not been implicated in a 150-year history of lynchings, night rides, voter registration obstruction or enforcement -- at the barrel of a gun -- of Jim Crow segregation laws.

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But it is also one of the nation's oldest mainstream Hispanic advocacy groups, with 300 neighborhood affiliates and corporate sponsorship that includes Citigroup.

And it has not been implicated in a 150-year history of lynchings, night rides, voter registration obstruction or enforcement -- at the barrel of a gun -- of Jim Crow segregation laws.

Well said, brother.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Like the Nazis, the KKK gets wheeled out way too often as a historical comparison. Its particularly lazy coming from elected officials.

Just mention one of the two and their job is done. Stupid.

Never mind that in both cases the groups had the full backing and power of government behind them.

[Heracles 417]

But it is also one of the nation's oldest mainstream Hispanic advocacy groups, with 300 neighborhood affiliates and corporate sponsorship that includes Citigroup.

Ahhh is that what it is.

While the double standards of certain particular posters who have with certain similar views is nothing new, it is funny to see you guys (yet again) defend particular ethnicities. Yet we know for a fact that if a white group had the equivalent "advocacy group", it would be all over for them here. (source: your 12 trillion posts)

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[almaty 19]

But it is also one of the nation's oldest mainstream Hispanic advocacy groups, with 300 neighborhood affiliates and corporate sponsorship that includes Citigroup.

Ahhh is that what it is.

yes..like the naacp..which was called a communist group by bigots...

[Heracles 417]

But it is also one of the nation's oldest mainstream Hispanic advocacy groups, with 300 neighborhood affiliates and corporate sponsorship that includes Citigroup.

Ahhh is that what it is.

yes..like the naacp..which was called a communist group by bigots...

Thanks for that. I forgot about that group: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

I'd rather be a bigot than some moron who cannot even see the racist, promote one race, intention of such groups. It is obvious that for some of you 'geniuses', you just cannot fathom the thought of other races being racist. In your minds only white Caucasians are racist. deeerrrr.

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[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Whites don't need an "advocacy" group.

[Heracles 417]

Whites don't need an "advocacy" group.

Must be like the 'whites don't need a history month' statement.

There is zero justification of either of those groups. Especially the NAACP which specifically states COLORED people. AKA no pale azz Britt like you allowed.

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[Heracles 417]

To see the same people who attack someone the nanosecond they mention a cultural negative about either minorities, then defend those groups, shows they are full of #######.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yep exactly the same.

[almaty 19]

Yes, australia has a rich history of injustice...

The Australian government has made a formal apology for the past wrongs caused by successive governments on the indigenous Aboriginal population.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in parliament to all Aborigines for laws and policies that "inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss".

He singled out the "Stolen Generations" of thousands of children forcibly removed from their families.

The apology, beamed live around the country on TV, was met with cheers.

But some Aborigines say it should have been accompanied with compensation for their suffering.

'Indignity and degradation'

In a motion passed unanimously by Australian MPs on Wednesday morning, Mr Rudd acknowledged the "past mistreatment" of all of his country's Aboriginal population.

For the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry

"We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians," the motion said.

Mr Rudd said he apologised "especially" to the Stolen Generations of young Aboriginal children who were taken from their parents in a policy of assimilation which lasted from the 19th Century to the late 1960s.

"For the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry."

Aborigines are the most disadvantaged sector of society

Australia has no Aboriginal members in parliament, but 100 leaders of the community and members of the Stolen Generations were present for the historic apology.

The leader of the Liberal opposition, Brendan Nelson, said he "strongly" welcomed the apology.

He decided to take a different position on the issue than his predecessor, former Prime Minister John Howard, who refused for over a decade to apologise to the Stolen Generations - a stance supported, polls suggest, by about 30% of Australians.

Mixed response

The government hopes the apology will repair the breach between white and black Australia and usher in a new era of recognition and reconciliation.

The parliamentary session was shown live on television as well as on public screens erected in cities across the country.

Mr Rudd received a standing ovation from MPs and onlookers in parliament, and cheers from the thousands of Australians watching outside.

Blackfellas will get the words, the whitefellas keep the money

Noel Pearson

Aboriginal leader

Michael Mansell, a spokesman for the rights group the National Aboriginal Alliance, said the word "sorry" was one that "Stolen Generation members will be very relieved is finally being used", reported Associated Press news agency.

But the refusal to accompany the apology with any compensation has angered many Aboriginal leaders, who have called it a "cut-price sorry".

"Blackfellas will get the words, the whitefellas keep the money," summed up Noel Pearson, a respected Aboriginal leader, in The Australian newspaper.

Mr Rudd has also outlined a new agenda on Aboriginal issues, including a commitment to close the 17-year life expectancy gap between Aborigines and other Australians within a generation, was well as halving Aboriginal infant mortality rates within a decade.

Australia's 460,000 Aborigines make up 2% of the population and are the most disadvantaged group.

They have higher rates of infant mortality, drug abuse, alcoholism and unemployment than the rest of the population