One of the more troubling aspects about the "dual loyalty" charge against Cruz Bustamante is the notion that there is something insidious about ethnic pride. Like Jewish politicians who have their loyalty to America questioned any time the issue of Israel comes up, Bustamante (and, one suspects, other non-Anglo politicians) is now the target of those who pretend that there is somehow a moral equivalence between the Klan lynching blacks and burning crosses, and the slogan Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.

Translated, that slogan means "for our people, everything. Beyond our people, nothing." It has no racist connotations. It isn't meant to be hate speech. As far as I can tell, no white person has ever been dragged out of his house in the middle of the night by a hooded MeChAtista, tied up, castrated, and then burned alive because of the slogan. Stop trying to pretend otherwise.