Your Nativo Lopez summary
News of Nativo Lopez has been featured here in the past. He's the president of the groups Mexican-American Political Association and Hermandad Mexicana and he tends to get a fair amount of almost always favorable press attention.
Just a week ago he was featured in a discussion of the San Bernardino Sun article "Club to remove barriers". Before then, AP gave a previous boycott threat some attention. There's more on him here.
Yesterday, while announcing his latest boycott threat, this is what he had to say about KFI and the use of the term "illegal alien":
"We are not niggers. We are not kikes. We are not paddies. We are not homos. Uh-kay?"
As pointed out many times in the past, "illegal alien" is the correct, legal term. In fact, that's the term used to describe illegal aliens in the U.S. Code, a.k.a. the law of the land.
What's interesting is the ease with which these derogatory terms fall from Lopez' lips. Listen to the quote here, or directly in either this file or, if that doesn't work, in this file.
The next time you see a press article with a quote from Lopez, email them the links to that audio.
Comments
Rory Jordan (not verified)
Tue, 12/14/2004 - 12:48
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I was listening to Jon and Ken that day and called in, I was the one who worked on the recall, and talked about being called "cocanuts",Nativo is corrupt and is gets alotof his power through the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, they recruit members from his Hermandad group and pay him and them to protest non union companies.The union ironically looks to the cheap labor that they scream the coporations exploit and exploit them for their own power.
Rory Jordan (not verified)
Tue, 12/14/2004 - 12:48
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I was listening to Jon and Ken that day and called in, I was the one who worked on the recall, and talked about being called "cocanuts",Nativo is corrupt and is gets alotof his power through the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, they recruit members from his Hermandad group and pay him and them to protest non union companies.The union ironically looks to the cheap labor that they scream the coporations exploit and exploit them for their own power.
Ontario Emperor (not verified)
Sat, 12/04/2004 - 20:27
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Note his use of the term "we" - i.e., the assumption that Latin American illegal aliens have the same agenda as Latin American legal residents, and Latin American citizens. That in and of itself is the most racist thing that you can assume.
Imagine the howls of disbelief if someone said, "We're going to get the views of the white community. We're going to ask a sports figure, a preacher, a university professor, and an entertainer. Once we have interviewed these people, we will have the official views of the white community." Yeah, right. But that's what they did to the black community years ago - at least until Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice, and others came into prominence.