Our New Anahuac

No disrespect intended: I always wondered why so-called Latino business groups “mix” and meet at places not owned by Latinos. I think that if you told Asians that their groups would meet at Mexican Restaurant, owned by Mexicans, they would laugh. Why don’t these sorts of groups use their vast influence to keep the money [...]

I was reading this post called Union Busting is Market Manipulation and Wage Theft. The post was on DirtyHippies, and part of the argument I found to be very insightful. I love theory, even though it is often difficult to debate via the internets. Here is a portion of the argument, along with my response. [...]

Perhaps if I had never worked in the world of mortgages, I would count myself among my friends who decry “subprime mortgages” merely as a way to rob minority communities of wealth. As an ex-mortgage broker I am intimately familiar with the products known as subprime mortgages. Admittedly, there is a great deal to criticize [...]

I have often said that small business ownership is one strategy to success for our community.  For years, scholars have documented the systematic limits and barriers for minorities in the corporate world.  One does not need to believe that every Anglo is racist to believe that there are many structural barriers which inhibit the success [...]

These two tidbits involve the highest echelons of power in the US, a Congressman and a candidate for US Senate. Good Americans Are Losing Their Homes, “not minorities…defective…useless…wasteful…” Just watch it. I mean what else can I say or analyze about this video? I guess what pops into my head is that many minority policy [...]

A friend of mine, Pancho Arguelles, forwarded our coalition a statement from Immigrant Communities In Action, which stated emphatically that the call for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR), must not be an endorsement for the Schumer/Graham Four-Pillar Blueprint.  The statement reads: Our call as immigrant workers, families, and youth is for a reform rooted in our [...]

Listen to the interview.  The disparity shocked even me.  The lack of wealth (assets) in our community is a great contributory factor to us being unable to be proactive (nation building) in our approach to Our Restoration (O/R).  Young “Latinas”: stop buying Coach purses before you own any assets.  Twenty-year-old “Latinos”: stop buying forty thousand [...]

Those of you who know me personally know that I have a deep respect for some of the ideas taught by the Nation of Islam, specifically their social, political and economic stances. At times, however, some of their economic stances, such as “do for self” have the ring of individualism and capitalistic development.  Some of [...]

A few days ago, less than a week, I believe, I was listening to a report on KPFT or NPR and they were discussing the Glass-Steagall Act, the act which essentially limited banks from taking major lending risks. In 1999 the act was repealed. This repeal is largely blamed for having caused the financial crisis [...]

A big thanks to Brother Rodolfo X of the Houston Mosque of The Nation of Islam for the heads up on this article. According to an AP report published in the FinalCall.com, Spain has turned to immigrant so-called Latinos (racial mestizos) to fill the ranks of its military. Spain has struggled to recruit soldiers since [...]