Gibson suspicious that Hispanic-American advocacy groups are set on "retaking old Mexico territories ... by pure birth rate"
SUMMARY: While saying that he was citing an internal e-mail from The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Fox News' John Gibson claimed he was suspicious that "open immigration groups" like the NCLR favor "the so-called reconquista," which Gibson described as the "retaking of old Mexico territories, which are now part of the United States, by pure birth rate." Gibson also asserted that the NCLR "is a group dedicated to the betterment of the race," adding, "good, but try being American while you are at it, guys."
While saying that he was citing an internal e-mail from The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) during the "My Word" segment on the April 3 edition of Fox News' The Big Story, host John Gibson claimed he was suspicious that "open immigration groups" like the NCLR favor "the so-called reconquista," which Gibson described as the "retaking of old Mexico territories, which are now part of the United States, by pure birth rate." Gibson also asserted that the NCLR, which describes itself as "the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States," "is a group dedicated to the betterment of the race," adding, "good, but try being American while you are at it, guys."
As Media Matters for America has noted (here and here), in recent weeks, conservative media figures and pundits have attempted to link protestors of a recent immigration bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives with advocates of the theory that "the American Southwest belongs to Mexico," or reconquista. Reconquista is a term associated with El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, the founding document of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (Chicano Student Movement of Aztalan, or MEChA), a group with affiliates at numerous college campuses and several high schools that claims to work toward "improving the social and political situation of the Chicano/Latino community."
Media Matters also noted that according to a March 30 column by Alex Koppleman, a columnist for Drexel University's biweekly online magazine Dragonfire, reconquista is now a concept promoted more by "white supremacists and neo-Nazis" than by Mexicans or Mexican-Americans.
From the April 3 edition of Fox News' The Big Story with John Gibson:
GIBSON: Reading about a memo or an e-mail from a group called la Raza, I'm also convinced there are some Hispanic political groups who think assimilation is a bad idea, and they actively lobby to keep Mexican-Americans more Mexican than American. This story has been reported in the Richmond Times Dispatch among others. It talks about an e-mail from la Raza on a specific piece of proposed legislation, which would give immigrants English classes and permit those who demonstrate English proficiency to apply for citizenship a year earlier than others and it would give immigrants classes on civics and U.S. history, which of course they need to pass citizenship tests.
The la Raza e-mail warns that, quote, "While the bill doesn't overtly mention assimilation, it is very strong on patriotism and traditional American values language in a way that is potentially dangerous to our communities," close quote.
Potentially dangerous? Patriotism and traditional American values are bad things? I think this kind of discussion by a major Hispanic political organization like la Raza casts a lot of suspicion about what open immigration groups are up to. There has been much discussion -- much discussion about the so-called reconquista, which is the retaking of old Mexico territories, which are now part of the United States, by pure birth rate.
We hear people say we are going to take it back and eventually -- that will eventually color the immigration debate in the way that Mexican-Americans and Hispanic immigrants will not want. La Raza is a group dedicated to the betterment of the race; good, but try being American while you are at it, guys. Eleven million people say they want to be Americans, they want to stay here, they want to be legal. Fine, just be Americans, learn the language so you can deal with the rest of us while you maintain your identity and your language and assimilate into American culture. That's how you make yourself welcome.
To encourage Aryan births, they had all sorts of incentives.
They even had institutions that housed young Aryan women, who were made available for insemination by the SS officers.
His definition of patriotism and American Values is diametrically opposed to mine. He is also a racist. How many second generation Americans have parents who are immigrants who became citizens but are not proficient using English? Or, they can't be understood because of their "accents"? Oh, but then they're Irish, English, German, or Italian, Russian, Hungarian, CUBAN, or Polish, so that's OK.
Even if we were to deport all of the undocumented Mexican people in this country, in 40 years or so, English will not be the most used language in this country.
I have a little advice for Gibson and the rest of the Fox lackeys, why not trying to be a little more American yourselves? True Americans are kind, compassionate, tolerant and informed.
If the right would read sometimes, instead of insulting academia, they may learn something. Good grief.
"I.....I.....suspect.....but I never read anything....because I don't want to be one of those left wingnut liberals......"
Okay, the target group of the month for the NeoCons are Hispanics and Mexicans. Since 9/11, it has been Arabs, Muslums, and Islamics. During the Presidential Campaign, it was gays and Democrats who were going to break up families. During the build up to the Iraq war, it was the French and US war protestors. They always find enemies so the can make themselves look better.
because the Hispanics are 'getting some.' I mean let's face it. The man looks like he sprays is hair to his head. He probably can't dance but thinks he can. And I'm sure he doesn't speak a lick of Spanish. He makes white people look white. The botttom line is his stereotypical opinion of immigrants is disgusting. What's even more disgusting is his sources. 'Reconquistas' is a new term to me. I've now heard it for the first time in one week from Gibson and Michelle Malkin. They are merely parrots.
"E-mail from la Raza" = "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
Where is this neferious e-mail, John? Have you seen it? Did you contact La Raza about it?
In your own words, the e-mail isn't concerned about "patriotism and traditional American values" - it is concerned about "patriotism and traditional American values language."
Regular Fox viewers know what the difference there is. One is genuine American patriotism - the other is a cheap jingoism designed to make angry rubes even angrier, so they continue to watch the propoganda on Fox.
Soon, some of those rubes are going to start burning cross on the lawns of Mexican-Americans. But John Gibson will still sleep soundly, as the gutless and immoral always do.