A parade and fiestas fill Hispanic Heritage Month * For years the exploits of European men saturated the history books. To honor other groups that influenced the nation's development, activists instituted Black History Month and Women's History Month, which have become fixtures on the cultural calendar. As the country's burgeoning Latino community increasingly flexes its political and economic power, Hispanic Heritage Month is also destined to become more prominent.
"It's only a matter of time,'' In 1968, Congress designated a weeklong commemoration  pegged to coincide with Mexican and Central American Independence Day on Sept. 15. The observance was expanded to a month in 1988 and ends Oct. 15 around Columbus Day, known in Latin America
as El Dia de la Raza(which is variously translated as "The Day of the Race"
"Remember the Alamo" or  "We don't need no stinkin' Green Cards".

Also, various interest groups are lobbying Committee members for inclusion of 
important holidays from various cultures and campaign contributors including 
significant days from Aztec, Mayan, Earth Mother, Muslim and Zoroastrian calendars. 

That's a load of crap that Americans don't want these jobs picking crops. I have a friend of mine that is White, and went to check out a job 
picking apples. We live in upstate NY by the way. My friend was told that, "Only immigrants could get these jobs." Soooooo, there you go! 
     - TH
 

Mistake: Discrediting the Matt Fong Campaign

I can understand why notable immigration reform activists such as 
Terry Graham   might attempt to discredit Republican neo-conservative Matt Fong for his pro-legal immigration stand, but I would hesitate to recommmend that we vote repeatedly for prospective election candidates based solely on a one dimension/issue condition. That is, immigration reform and even European American interests, although of paramount importance and concern, are not the ONLY issues to be contemplated when considering who to vote for. 

In this case, Matt Fong's liberal Democratic rival, Barbara Boxer, cannot 
be construed as being more considerate of either immigration reform OR 
inherent European American interests. In fact, there should be no need to point out that Boxer is a rabid new left advocate favoring everything from strict gun control; rescinding welfare reform; crackpot environmental schemes involving government coercion; pro-affirmative action; pro-illegal immigration; pro-bilingual education; anti-school voucher and public education reform; open support of one world government and global economies of scale; big government and continued federal budget deficits, and on, and on... 

Furthermore, I do not buy into the insinuated argument that because 
Matt Fong is Chinese, Ward Connerly is black, or David Horowitz
is a reformed radical left-wing Jew -- that any of these folks cannot be sincere non-hyphenated conservative Americans who are just as disgusted as we, at the recent blossoming of liberal ethnic identity politics in American life.  In short, in this current election for California's U.S. Senate representative, there is no other choice but to give our votes to Matt Fong. 

Let us never forget that because conservative oriented European Americans split there vote for Perot in the 1992 presidential election (20%), we got stuck with the great slut, Bill Clinton.  May we not repeat the same mistakes. If we don't have a viable candidate in a particular election that meets ALL of our political interests -- then support the next logical and best choice. There is no other sane alternative in American politics. 

     -G.E.J. 
 

"Generally  speaking, they're set up for dissenters
who will not go along with the New World Order.
The 'resisters' are gun owners who refuse to give up their weapons;
the 'dissidents' are Christians, Patriots and Constitutionalists.
These camps are set up. I've seen many of them."