Kansas City Has A Problem

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/276246.html

"Several city officials were angered Friday by the announcement that the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps will hold its first-ever national convention in Kansas City to support a member embroiled in controversy."

"“I am concerned our city is looking like the hotbed of right-wing vigilante groups, and that’s not how I want Kansas City to be portrayed,” Councilwoman Jan Marcason said."

"Marcason and Councilwoman Cindy Circo also worry that the Minuteman convention will undermine their efforts to find a compromise that will keep the NAACP and the National Council of La Raza conventions in Kansas City. The two civil rights organizations have threatened to pull their conventions because Mayor Mark Funkhouser appointed Frances Semler, a member of the Minuteman group, to the city parks board."

"The civil rights groups have complained that the Minuteman organization is a vigilante group that is hostile to minorities, although Minuteman leaders say their prime concern is fixing the nation’s broken immigration system."

Well, the obvious question to me is why the Minutemen are a "right wing vigilante group" that no one wants, and LaRaza is middle stream? Also, what problem does the NAACP, a black group, have with the Minutemen?

Thanks to bh684!

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From the Minutemen Pledge:

"A Minuteman believes that just as ethnicity, race, religion and all such factors are incidental and do not affect our God-given, constitutional equality as American citizens, such factors are also irrelevant in the debate over illegal immigration. There is no tolerance among Minutemen for racism or bigotry - E Pluribus Unum - Out of Many, One"

The translation of LaRaza is "The Race". See a difference? The LaRaza movement is linked to the group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA).

"Chicano is our identity; it defines who we are as people. It rejects the notion that we...should assimilate into the Anglo-American melting pot...Aztlan was the legendary homeland of the Aztecas ... " (Statement on University of Oregon MEChA Website, Jan. 3, 2006)

Thanks to ORD neighbour for the pic.

Members of Aztlan posing for a friendly photo with Arafat. Take a look at the pic behind them.

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