Democrats, slavery, Irish, and Indians

[ilbegone]

I found a very cheap $3.50 plus shipping), used version of one of of racist ethnic studies professor Armando Navarro's books (peddling race enmity at the university must not pay all the bills - new retails around $60.00).

While I have read a first hand account in a book by Jose Angel Gutierrez of the events surrounding the take over of the school district and local governments in Zavala county in Texas during late 60's and early 70's, I was not aware of the extent to which Gutierrez assembled a get out the vote political machine for La Raza Unida.

It was much like Tammany Hall concerning organization and patronage of the poor and immigrants and was called Communidadados Unidos, United Community of which Gutierrez was the head. There is some alleged looting and embezzlement, but it would not have been on the grand scale of Tammany Hall nor even approached what my understanding is of what some of the United Farm Workers leadership did with the members dues.

Gutierrez realized that once an election had been won, the next election campaign immediately started and that the La Raza Unida party needed both a consistent cash flow in the form of contributions and consistent voter turnout for its platform.

Territory was divided into precincts with precinct captains over block leaders and volunteers under block leaders. There were sound trucks prowling neighborhoods, and radio stations played political spots.

This was funded through payroll deductions of Communidados Unidos members (presumably government and school district jobs handed out to reward political activism) along with fundraising dances and other entertainment. Communidados Unidos also campaigned for La Raza Unida by holding political and organizing fetes with free beer and food a la the Mexican PRI.

Employees of occupations controlled by the machine who were not favorable to La Raza Unida were ran off. While attention was nominally paid to all areas of the community, neighborhoods which voted La Raza Unida got first priority.

The leadership of Comunidados Unidos was comprised of elected officials, county and school administration, organizations which included the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and leaders within the community.

Saul Alinski's methods of community organizing were utilized as well as the universal racist tactic of polarizing racial consciousness.

Polarization of the races is what I mean when I say that racists need racial hatred. It is an organizing tool which invents racial grievances for propaganda purposes when the real deal isn't enough to legitimately address. The goal is to instigate regular people on both sides into hating each other so much that nothing can be worked out and only one side is going to win in an epic race battle - and racist puppeteers of that one side achieve their agenda.

The issue of the children of illegal aliens is one example of this tactic, they are tools, pawns, and propaganda fodder in a game not of their making. After all, goes the reasoning, who would be so hard hearted to throw out children who were born elsewhere but don't truly belong to their parents' country, and deportation of parents and other relatives will be long remembered in the political consciousness of children of illegal aliens from Latin America who are citizens by virtue of the 14th amendment. This is cynically accomplished by pressure on politicians by American brown supremacists not to enforce immigration law. Several goals are advanced in one stroke.

[ilbegone]

My impressions from Armando Navarro's book concerning La Raza Unida and the community are so many and varied that they can't really be condensed into a few words. Mostly it's "WOW". So many things from power consolidation (even includes a Latino beer franchise war) to education to political implosion and racial hypocrisy.

Navarro's general references and quotes from participants concerning brown people in Zavala county and beyond as "Mexicanos". This is further broken down into "Chicanos", "vendidos" (sell outs), and "Coconuts" (brown on the outside, white on the inside). In his writing, this is not so absolute as this paragraph seems to make it. The references to Caucasians are generally "whites" and "Gringos" (with the general meanings of oppressors, racists, or opposers of La Raza Unida) or Anglos (those in sympathy or at least neutral with La Raza Unida). While his prejudice is obvious, I do believe his assertion that he tried to leave his prejudices behind for writing the book.

There are several different impressions concerning brown people in the book. There were migratory workers with a home base in Zavala county and Crystal itself and there are no references concerning illegal residence or distinction between birth citizenship nationality or naturalization, but the story revolves around people who appear to have been American for generations. The Latino base for La Raza Unida support appears to have been poor people, it seems those with a middle class income tended to oppose La Raza Unida.

It may surprise some (I've understood this for some time), but a portion of brown resistance to La Raza Unida had to do with the manner of imposition and type of bilingual education in the local schools. There were parents who believed their children weren't learning English well enough under the party direction (instruction was primarily in Spanish) and Jose Gutierrez and the party turned a deaf ear to complaints. Some believed Gutierrez placed too much emphasis on race, that he needed to knock it back a notch.

Political machine Comunidadas Unidas (the power behind La Raza Unida) wielded complete control in the county concerning public and educational jobs, which were just about the only decent paying jobs in the county. There was influence in other occupations. Jobs were used to reward supporters of the party agenda and dissenters were fired. Gutierrez himself, without legal education, became a county judge.

Politics were nasty indeed. There was a lot of scurrilous polarization both between races and within the "brown community". Once in power, Communidadas Unidas engaged in voter intimidation and arranged such things as turning the power off to buildings hosting opposition meetings. There were threats of suing power companies and telephone companies which provided service to opposition groups. Proof of residency was sometimes required of whites and opponents in order to vote - contrasting with the fact that before La Raza Unida took power, Gutierrez brought in federal observers to ensure there was no white voter fraud. There was some voter fraud by Communidadas Unidas, but it was inconsequential to election outcome.

Towards the end, Gutierrez and his Machine were brought down not by hostile whites, but by (including but not limited to) increased brown hostility to policies, increased taxes, power consolidated in too few hands, resentments and aspirations within the machine, a police department which was infused with party politics and machine directives, bringing in people from outside the community to fill high pay jobs no one in the brown rural community were qualified to do, Gutierrez over reaching and dictatorial presumption, and the La Raza Unida trip to learn and bring back ideas from Cuba. Navarro quotes a local individual (which requires reading between the lines as to what is really meant concerning "Mexican" and self identity among multi generational Americans with Mexican ancestors):

They were totally Mexican. They were also citizens of Texas and the United States. I don't think ideologically they identified with Cuba, Nicaragua, or even Mexico.

These were people, regardless of ancestry, mix of culture, or status in society who had a mentality shaped by multi generational American experience.

In the end, there were even death threats by Latinos against Gutierrez, and three Latinos were apprehended by police trying to assassinate Gutierrez with a large rattlesnake with its rattles cut off. It was in a burlap bag and the intent was turning it loose in an enclosed area Gutierrez frequented. Gutierrez got a gun permit.

There was infighting within the machine (the machine grew so large Gutierrez had to subordinate some power) as well as attacks from a Latino opposition party - La Raza Libre (formed of long term opponents), and there lawsuits from within and without.

One of my more prominent impressions is corroboration of my belief that brown supremacists and ethnic nationalism need a continual influx of poor foreigners from Latin America and their children to shower goodies and privilege on as well as invoking the Anglo Sajon boogie man (the white man is out to get YOU!!!!) in order to fulfill their racist agenda.

[ilbegone]

I'll get back to the Irish, democrats, and voter fraud after one last diversionary tirade concerning Armando Navarro and his book "the Cristal experiment".

I'm not sure where to start, and there is so much I'd like to say - and my head hurts with it all.

Navarro seems to be preoccupied with the concept of "internal colonialism", that "whites" invade a geographical area, take economic control of all the resources and export the money from the community to white held bank accounts elsewhere. Brown people are purposefully prevented from becoming educated and excluded from the fruits of their manual slave labor. http://academic.evergreen.edu/b/bohm...rnalcolony.htm

In other words, purposefully racist, oppressive capitalism with the solution being redistribution of wealth and property as well as "community control" and takeover of industry. His words dance all around an implied mission of driving "whites" out without coming right out and saying it.

The first observation is that Navarro is a hypocrite in this regard. His students are over a barrel with the requirement to buy his overpriced books for study, as many as three per class. The "Cristal experiment" retails $60.00 new, and his latest book “Global Capitalist Crisis and the Second Great Depression” is listed at $90.00.

Does that not make Navarro an opportunistic capitalistic pig working the system? "Who Are We?" by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington sells for less than thirty bucks hardcover big box new.

There were a lot of things wrong with race in the 1950's which needed to be righted. On the other hand, Navarro and his racist buddies don't understand that it's not 1956 anymore.

Zavala county was and is farm and ranch country, with a Del Monte processing plant and government being the only stable industries in the area. Yes, the farm workers are paid a pittance. So, what happens if they strike for higher wages? Their distant cousins flood across the border to displace the striking farm workers and work for even less. Uncontrolled oversupply of labor much more than white racism plagued Cesar Chavez all his activist life. Same thing happened to construction, with a great degradation to quality of workmanship.

If it weren't for the Anglo American of 200 years ago, there would be nothing worthwhile to emigrate to. The sparsely populated Spanish colonies along the Rio Grande from the Gulf of Mexico to southern Colorado and along coastal California were separated from populated Mexico by a whole lot of desert and hostile nomadic Indians. From California to Mexico, the trip was by boat. And, when Mexicans (from Mexico, not the US) began moving into Los Angeles around the 1880's, the Californios of the Hispanic California 1769 through 1848 era moved out. They might have had Mexican governors for 27 years (I believe a majority number from California), but they weren't Mexican. As well, Californios didn't participate on either side of the 1810 Mexican war of independence.

It's as if Manifest destiny took the best part of Mexico, the part that was paved and had all the modern conveniences as well as high incomes for everyone (non producers included) and free medical for all.

I would love to see the drop out rate of Latinos improve. However, brown takeover of school district management and bilingual education have done nothing to change the Latino drop out rate - which has been virtually unchanged since the 1960s. White racism can't be blamed for that and no amount of money thrown at education is going to fix the problem until it is recognized for what the problem truly is.

Navarro, as assimilated as he is, assails assimilation to American culture.

There is a lot of the remnants and reverberations in my house of a long ago Mexico, a mixture of cultures. However, lets imagine that the course of the 1775 American Revolution followed the course of the 1910 Mexican Revolution.

King George III would have been exiled with his successor being an unrealistic dreamer from the upper class. The successor would have been assassinated by a drunken Army General who assumed the throne. After a long, bloody war the General would be exiled, whereupon all the revolutionary factions would war with each other for power. By the time everything settled down, nearly all captured prisoners from all sides would have been executed, the population would have suffered depredations from all governmental and revolutionary sides, a large segment of the population would have fled the empire, and the biggest change from one era to the other would have been that the king could only stay on the throne 6 years instead of over forty and the successor would be hand picked by the king himself. As well, the revolutionary generals would assassinate one another in turn, which would be the only way to become a cultural hero and unspeakable treachery would be a virtue.

And America would be an east coast country and we wouldn't have all the paved streets and modern conveniences.

[wetibbe]

I'm reading your posts?

Interesting but where are you going with this?

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

No doubt the readers appreciate someone who cares enough to post.

I haven't as yet been able to peg you and determine where you are coming from and where your allegiance lies !!!!

If you keep on posting I will keep on reading.

[Jeanfromfillmore]

Originally Posted by wetibbe

I'm reading your posts?

Interesting but where are you going with this?

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

No doubt the readers appreciate someone who cares enough to post.

I haven't as yet been able to peg you and determine where you are coming from and where your allegiance lies !!!!

If you keep on posting I will keep on reading.

I understand where he's coming from. He has personal experiences and those of research. I see his point as this 'crap didn't just happen overnight', there's a history that has been building.

[ilbegone]

I haven't as yet been able to peg you and determine where you are coming from and where your allegiance lies !!!!

What you see is what you get.

Essentially I am alternately regarded either as a racist or some sort of a traitor to my country by both far sides of the "bring 'em all in" and "throw 'em all out" crowds.

I witnessed a whole industry largely taken away from Americans of all races since the 1981 recession. My country is in a process of deconstruction by the "elite", politicians, racial groups, educators, judges, and unelected bureaucrats who have taken the civil rights act and turned it inside out so that almost everything revolves around ethnic groups and racial preference is made into the order of the day - the inequality of affirmative discrimination is one example among many. As another example, it's almost as if people and their descendants from the diverse and often mutually exclusive countries of Asia are compressed into "Asians" in America and are all supposed to wear Chinese coolie hats all the time, eat with chopsticks at every meal, and receive voter ballots in an obscure language which might cost over $60,000.00 to be provided to a group of maybe 600 people rather than do as immigrant citizens and their assimilated children have done for over 200 years.

On the other hand I know people of all ages with Mexican ancestry who grew up in America from children of the 1930's depression to toddlers who sit in my lap and have me read to them.

Some of the stuff brown supremacists come up with is exaggerated or invented, but there really was such a thing prior to certainly 1965 as pools placarded "NO MEXICANS" (didn't even have to mention blacks - that was implicitly understood) and whole blocks in towns they just couldn't go to, and the stuff about being back across the tracks before dark was a reality to many. It was clear that the brown man worked for the white man and not the other way around. Those who were on track to become successful had to adopt names which didn't sound so "Mexican". Freddy Fender and Ritchie Valens are two examples among many.

I also know adult children of post 1980 illegals as well as people who were illegal at some part (if not currently) in their life.

These are all different people and there are lots of individuals within those groups, no such thing as "one size fits all" when it comes to either white or brown.

For example: there are people whom I'm close to who grew up in the same time frame, segregated conditions and communities near the aforementioned ethnic studies professor Armando Navarro - some in the families might have known some of the Navarro family. Quite a few don't relate to illegals, whether or not they can communicate with Mexicans. Not a lot of them seem to have common cause with Navarro, he seems to be to a lot of them what recently deceased Neo Nazi Jeff Hall might be to an average white guy just trying to make a living - if they even hear of either one or both of them those two will usually be regarded by most as racist nuts. There is a saying that if you are fighting monsters you need to take care not to become a monster yourself.

In fact, one of the local brown oldsters even commented that Navarro "was educated on the white man's money". Might have a lot of basis to it because Lyndon Johnson started the ball rolling and Richard Nixon clearly made it possible for people like Navarro to cut in front of the education line (maybe Navarro should hang a big framed picture of "Tricky Dick" in his classroom as a token of gratitude, maybe have some lighted candles with the Mexican Virgin on them on a little shelf in front of it while class is in session).

Otherwise without ethnicity based presidential patronage Navarro might be working in a tire shop in Bloomington or maybe even Muscoy rather than making a living peddling racial enmity at the university while churning out a gushing torrent of race obsessed literature.

I'll get back to the 19th century Irish and voter fraud by political machines, because it is relevant today. I just can't believe the brazen schemes, and some are entirely possible now. Tammany Hall was the original reason for voter registration.

I just needed a little break to wind down from discussing Navarro's narration of Gutierrez' race based take over of government and education (which control over the curriculum is essential for the full deconstruction of America) - and it's still the blue print for doing so with Navarro's advice on sticking to the plan.

[ilbegone]

Voter fraud in 19th century New York City politics was shameless and unparalleled, if New York state was not the first state to require voter registration it was among the first.

The original method, utilized by both democrats and republicans, concerning the vote in the heavily immigrant 6th ward of New York city had to do with voter intimidation, both sides had their thugs out to drive off the other vote. This evolved into the democrat political machine using Irish immigrants who were not naturalized to cast ballots. The republicans pressed for a New York voter registration law, which was passed.

The democrat machine merely changed its tactics.

In 1863 an Irish immigrant sailor and cabinet maker from northern Ireland named John McCunn ( http://localhistory.morrisville.edu/...mccunn-37.html ) was nominated by Tammany Hall for a state superior court bench. He was outvoted in the returns (20,000 votes down in the democrat primary and just a few short in the election itself between democrat and republican cadidates), but it seems that republican ballot inspectors were bribed to let the numbers on both sides be changed without changing the total numbers of votes and McCunn ascended the bench. This tactic continued for many years. (Note Jose Angel Gutierrez becoming a county judge in Zavala County in the 1970's)

Another was to allow the ineligible, especially immigrants who had not been naturalized, to vote. (Nativo Lopez' Hermandad Mexicana Nacional during the Bob Dornan - Loretta Sanchez middle 1990's congressional race).

The most utilized method was to have groups who would vote multiple times under different names.

Some of this was accomplished by Irish immigrant judge McCunn and judge Barnard ( http://www.harpweek.com/09cartoon/Br...th=May&Date=25 ) banning journalists from proceedings (witnesses who would surely question the proceedings, a good case for open government) which naturalized 37,967 immigrants in 1868 (McCunn naturalized 27897, Barnard 10,070), of which a single city denizen, Patrick Goff, "verified" the date of arrival and attested to the "good character" of 2,161 of those immigrants in the fall. In October, Goff was a witness for more than 1000 applicants in three days. Thousands of naturalization certificates were awarded in the name of fictional immigrants, others were given to ineligible immigrants.

In each ward groups of paid voters were given multiple false identities, addresses, and voting districts to register and vote under ("vote often, and vote for me"). One election a group operating in the 6th, 8th and 14th wards were given hundreds of identities to vote under. There may have been over a thousand fraudulent registrations for the 1868 elections in the 6th ward alone. One man voted the democrat ticket 16 times for $30.00, another 9 times for $8.00 in the 10th and 7th wards.

On at least one occasion, the democrat voting inspectors waited for the early voting crowd to thin out, then copied names from the registration book. They left momentarily, and soon after returning the the polling station was inundated with voters casting ballots on those names. Republicans who came later in the day to cast their vote found that their name had been already voted on.

It seems that republican election inspectors were physically threatened, bribed, drugged, or had their registration books stolen.

It was revealed from the 1870 census that there were more votes cast in one five Points District than there were men, woman, and children living there, and only adult male citizens were eligible to vote then. In other districts, there were more votes cast than eligible male citizens. Between 1867 and 1869 6th ward ballots cast increased 80%, even though available lodging decreased by several tenements.

After federal laws were passed concerning voter fraud (again, Democrat political machine Tammany Hall was the inspiration for the statutes), the tactics changed again. The democrat party machine simply miscounted the votes which were cast.

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I found some video by Alfonzo Rachel which brings out a succinct version of part of what I'm trying to say about racists who harp on the distant past to "prove" their points. The man unmercifully shreds revisionist democrats: http://alfonzorachel.com/382/i-almos...ments-of-toure You have to scroll down to get to two related videos.

Here is another location which you can get the same two videos: http://callmestormy.com/2012/08/21/d...ory-of-racism/