Minutemen Scream "F@$k You Brown Boy!" at Latinos Attending Obama Talk

[proud2BlibKansan]

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So rather than attend Barack Obama's speech, I thought it would be best to cover what was happening around Barack Obama's speech. I went outside where a crowd of a few hundred was gathered. There was a sizeable group of Obama supporters, a few people holding signs for 9/11 Truth (Noam Chomsky says all that needs to be said on that), as well as a loud and bosterous group that identified themselves as the San Diego Minutemen.Supporters of the San Diego Minutemen held signs that said things like:

"Support Americans Not La Raza",
"La Raza Means 'The Race'",
"La Raza Stop the Hate Against Americans",
"La Raza, Neo-Nazi, KKK, Racist Groups",
"Obama: 50% White, 43.75% Arabic, 6.25% Black, 100% Brown RACIST"

Just as I was about to turn away from filming a man holding a sign of a boy urinating on the phrase "La Raza", I heard him begin to chant, "Fuck You Brown Boy. Fuck You Brown Boy. Fuck You Brown Boy." The San Diego Minuteman supporter was walking up a ramp to the convention center and was speaking to another full-grown man that looked to be of latino descent to me.

In all fairness, I have no idea what the latino man was saying to the San Diego Minutemenn supporter. It could have been just as hateful. I followed them until they parted ways and just as I was about to stop filming again, a group of people walked through chanting, "Viva La Raza. Viva La Raza." The Minuteman supporter then went at it again, "Fuck La Raza. Fuck La Raza. Fuck La Raza."

It was heated out there. I tried to interview supporters of the San Diego Minutemen, but most walked away when I asked them. I was able to interview one woman, and they'll be back tomorrow when I will try to interview them again. It's not fair of me to call them out like this without getting an official comment from them.

Still, I find it ironic that the San Diego Minutemen were holding signs calling out the National Council of La Raza for their supposed racism at the same time that this man was engaging what was clearly blatant racism to me. How can you call a grown latino man a "boy" and condemn an entire race without being racist?

more (good read) . . . http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/91440/

[Gormy Cuss]

1. "Brown boy"? Who are these people?

How fucking small are their minds?

[SeattleGirl]

2. What minds?

:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Microscopic

They had their convention here in Feb. Small minded is a perfect description.

[ulysses]

3. don't have to scratch hard, do you?

[Cleita]

4. Well, bless their little skinhead, neo-Nazi hearts.

And imagine that people here on DU were defending them as older vets and patriots when those of us who knew better were trying to convince people of their covert association and sometimes open association with white supremacist groups. At least now they have been outted.

[Drum]

5. They have no clue about the people their group is named after, do they?

Oy. :eyes:

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. I call them the 60 second men

:)

[arcadian]

6. People in this country, especially California, and desert southwest

Need to get over their Anglo-centric worldview.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. It really is very ignorant

[muntrv]

7. Minutemen, KKK, Aryan Nations. All the same.

[zeemike]

9. I could add a few more to that

But they know who they are.
And eventually they all come out of the closet.

[backscatter712]

10. When Lou Dobbs and his CNN crew aren't rolling their cameras...

they're breaking out their Confederate flags, swastikas and white sheets.

[Ian David]

8. Minutemen = NAMBLA (North American Minuteman Border Legionaries Association) n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. LOL!

[muntrv]

15. Aren't these guys supposed to register as sex offenders?