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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Neeka who wrote (163940)4/18/2006 4:10:55 PM
From: Lane3   of 793914
 
I've done a bit of googling, and I'm more confused than ever. As of this moment I really don't know what la raza means.

I think that the question has been confused by the introduction of the familiar usage of the word, "raza." The term raised in the article was "La Raza," not plain old "raza" and the context was an identity group political movement, not casual banter. Even in its simplest English translation, "race" is pretty obviously not the same as "The Race."

To illustrate the usage as I understand it by putting it in the context of a different "race," to speak of one's "raza" is the equivalent of one's "homeboys." To speak of "La Raza" is something else again, along the lines of the Black Power movement. Either that or the abbreviated name of the interest group, National Council of La Raza, which would be somewhere between the NAACP and the Black Panthers, I know not where.
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