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To: Lane3 who wrote (163882)	4/18/2006 10:32:11 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

But you must put your encounters with "La Raza" in context. How many encounters have you had with Mexican-Americans who have used the term "raza" in its popular meaning? None, I daresay, for there would be no reason to address you as a member of "mi raza." The analogy would be a hypothetical black racialist society called "The Bro's". If Hanson had addressed the term "bro'" as racialist, he would have probably included a short sentence or two on how the term "bro'" is used as a figure of speech denoting friendship, even by whites. Simply put, Hanson is ignorant about Mexican Americans and did not make a distinction which should have been made. I generally agree with Hanson but like a lot of gabachos, he is not taking into account the subtleties of Mexican American culture. There are a lot of good cuates in it, and they are being thrown out with the bathwater. They are going to get unnecessarily offended by Hanson's and others' blunders. The whole "they are illegal, they gotta go" line of reasoning makes me ill.