Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Volk = Raza   [Victor Davis Hanson]

John: Precisely, and I have written and spoken about those synonyms. In a debate once, a Razista was trying to "convey" the richness of Raza (that I apparently didn't grasp), and going on about how it meant so "many things."

I added that so did Volk, a word that cannot really be translated into English, given its long historical and cultural baggage, that goes back to Tacitus and became enshrined in German folk lore and ended up in National Socialism as the people 'beyond the Rhine' whose racial purity supposedly was not corrupted and adulterated by the Roman mongrol mess.

Those who attend that convention should understand that Raza means a people in its racialist sense, its essence as something that transcends nationality and is used as a means of elevating people who look a particular way from others—in other ways, a way of thinking not unlike Rev. Wright's right brain/left brain geneticism.

In the 1960s the Raza literature unabashedly spread the racial message (and you can still find it on MEChA websites that have not been sanitized—“Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada" and a few documentaries focusing on some strange things that California politicans have voiced.

Now I don't think those at NCLR are so candid. It would be simple to change their name, but officials prefer to say officially Raza doesn't mean 'race,' and apparently what flak they catch is more than outweighed by the racial fides that "The Race" confers. After all, as many posted and wrote, John McCain will attend their national conference, and has no problem with the title.

05/06 09:34 AMShare