Major Hispanic Group Launches 'Hate Speech' Campaign Targeting Dobbs, Beck

The country's leading Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization is set to begin a campaign targeting several newscasters and presidential candidates for what it deems "rhetoric that demonizes immigrants and Hispanic Americans."

The National Council of La Raza, which includes nearly 300 affiliated organizations, will launch a new initiative on Thursday titled "We Can Stop The Hate," aimed at curtailing the influence of CNN's Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck as well as MSNBC political commentator Pat Buchanan. In addition, the organization is petitioning for Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to renounce the endorsement of Jim Gilchrist, a cofounder of the Minuteman Project, an anti-immigration group.

"There's a bully in the room," said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CE, "and each of these candidates has a choice. They can stand up to the bully or they can cater to him. It is a question of courage or cowardice. To date, we have seen far too little courage."

The NCLR campaign, which will likely last through the presidential election, will catalogue the use of code words that paint immigrants as threats. The website accompanying the launch will included fact sheets and video samples documenting examples of inflammatory immigration-policy rhetoric.

The organization has requested a meeting with senior executives at CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, to discuss the philosophical viewpoints of their respective anchors and commentators. The ultimate goal of the campaign, officials say, will be to stem the "surge in hate speech and violence" that has emerged in the immigration debate.

"The immigration issue deserves serious debate and serious solutions," said Murguía. "We cannot have that debate as long as hate has the floor."

Comments

[sklfcats]

Glenn Beck is a moron.

[FedupwithMexico]

Hispanic pro-illegal Mexican groups have started a war with the American people!
Watch for it coming to a state near you.

Form Immigration groups in your area to fight back!
We are fed up with the attacks on our American citizens!
Lou Dobbs is married to a Mexican/American woman
he is such a big racist!

http://www.saveourstate.org
go to forums!

[johnnyjust]

If controlling your southern border is racist, then Mexico must be the most racist country in the world. They have armed troops patrolling their southern border and prison camps to send those caught entering illegal, who are then quickly sent back.

Guess they just don't want any of those DARKER people coming up from Central and South America.

[mouselion]

A great video of Graham Nash's 'Immigration Man':

http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwvideos/immigrationman_qt-hi.html

[celticjag]

In my humble opinion Lou Dobbs is not a racist and it is disingenuous to conflate him with such a racist neanderthal as Glenn Beck! I do not always agree with Dobbs, but for the most part he is spot on concerning illegal immigration and its affects on the middle class and working poor. Before you attack me, let me say that I am a first generation Irish American who lives in a neighborhood consisting of four immigrant fammilies, two first generation immigrant families, three Afro-American families and five white American families!
Let me review Lou Dobbs:
1. He is against illegal immigration and promotes legal immigration.
2. He calls for securing our borders and ports, not done 6+ years since 9/11. This is the duty and responsibility of a sovereign nation. There is nothing racist about this.
3. He is the only media person advocating for the working poor and middle-class against Corporate America and our anti- worker government.
4. He has called for the arrest and fining of employees and corporate officers who violate the law and hire illegal immigrants.
5. He also points out that only 40% of illegal immigrants cross over from our southern border.
6. He always has as guests on his show, people of differing views and backgrounds. Chief amongst them is Rep. Luis Gutierrez from Illinois. This gentleman's views are diametrically to Dobbs', yet he calls him a friend and states that Lou is not a racist. Gee, a Hispanic American saying that Dobbs is not a racist, but most whites on this site know better.
Lastly, I wonder where all the compassion, caring and understanting is for the workers who lose their jobs to illegals!!! When they come to this country, they DO NOT bring jobs with them, they steal jobs of working Americans. Guess who make up the vast majority of those workers who lose their jobs? Afro-Americans and Hispanic-Americans. Who gives a f--k about these people? Oh, I forgot, how racist of me!

[joja]

Why a hate campaign?

Have they no legitimate arguments they can make?

Why resort to hate?

[AndiMedi]

If this effort by NCLR helps marginalize the folks who are standing in the way of realistic immigration reform that gets those here in the system and creates ways for people to come legally in the first place, putting immigration back on a legal pedestal, then great. The 20-25% percent of the electorate most in a boil over illegal immigration are blocking solutions to the very problem they say they want to solve. The majority of us are getting pretty uncomfortable with all the rhetoric and this persistent fantasy that these 12 million people are going to leave. They aren't and we don't want them to. Let's move on already.

[shadow322]

Once we regain control of who is and is not in our country I am sure this percieved hate will dissolve. We have every right (and responsibility) to control who is in and/or working in our country. This problem has only gone on this long due to political sell-outs and proffitiers. It is going to have to stop and the sooner the better. I did not fight for this country, only to turn it over to anyone who sneaks in.

[NBAFan21]

funny how all the racist come out to defend dobbs and beck. mexicans are the ones under attack and the klan comes out to call them racist. next they will blame the mexicans because they cook the food that makes them fat.

[TWOSHORT]

And hispanic's won't vote for a Black Man!!!Welcome to America

[Boobaloo]

Hate speech is exactly what most of the rhetoric surrounding immigration issue is contaminated with; whether it be Dobbs or Huckabee the hate and racism and scapegoating of immigrants is coming predominantly form white males.

Im glad the Hispanic Group is standing up to the bullies and the racists because this is a nation of immigrants and each group contributes immensly to our society,economy and culture.

Blaming border crossing on just the poor of Mexico and absolving the American corporations and American employers of any responsibility is counter productive. Not to mention the active racist campaign to keep Iraqi immigrants out and other groups. It's deplorable and it's about time this hate speech is challenged.

[OhgReaTone]

"Hate Speech" is a good term to describe the wrangling over immigration. Some folks act like these are burglars in the night, here to rob us and run laughing into the night. The reality is something much different.
Ohg
http://thefiresidepost.com/2007/10/03/immigration-underground-railroad/

[Orikinla]

Most of the so called political analysts on the CNN are intellectual MORONS, except for the older African American woman. The others are just posing and posturing armchair quarterbacks.

They lie about where they have never been.
Paying lip service aand eye service to their paymasters.

[cheech62]

It's about time somebody stood up to the haters who get invited onto the shoutfest shows as if they were "experts." I'm shocked by what I see on the airwaves, and appalled at how much it has shaped what people in this country think about immigration.

[Tator]

You folks can banter all you want about this, but the US is never going to seal the borders and the current batch of illegals will get citizenship.

Both political parties want them here. The Democrats see them as the next African Americans they can farm for votes. The Republicans what them here because business interest want them here.

The Republicans and Democrats also see them as providing extra tax monies to put off the day Americans will have to be told Social Security, Medicare and the coming National Heath Care can no longer make currently promised payments.

Even under the best estimates, by 2040, they all start to fail and that is before you factor in the coming National Health Care.

My suggestion, accept it psychologically ( still fight it at the ballot box as long as you can) and drop the anxiety, then plan your future , financial and where you plan to live, accordingly.

The cities will be over run with them ( so move out) and income taxes on the middle class HAVE be raised significantly, because if you take ALL the income of the wealthy it will not be enough.

Facts: The top 25% pay 86% of all income taxes, , the top 1% pay 39% of all income taxes.

The top 50% pay 97% of all income taxes-now let that sink in. Making the top 50% pay 100% of income taxes will not generate the needed money. So where are the politicians going to get the extra needed money-from the working class. Yo have been warned, get ready.