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(For a refresher on Proposition 187's substance and tortured history, see Tom Shuford's review here. Note for politics junkies: the electorally-triumphant proposition's "coattails" also rescued the re-election campaign of Governor Pete Wilson, who came from far behind to beat state treasurer Kathleen Brown—so much for the myth that it the GOP. In subsequent years, the GOP ran away from the immigration issue and got clobbered because it failed to mobilize its base. Note for immigration aficionados: Some years ago, American Patrol’s Glenn Spencer discovered that at least part of Proposition 187 is actually on the books in California! Of course, it's not being enforced.)

In response to 187's passage, Armando Navarro [Email him], Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, organized the "Latino Summit Response". It was held on the Riverside campus over two days in January, 1995, with the university's chapter of MEChA as host. The conference's theme: encouraging massive non-compliance with Proposition 187.

(For those new to the fray, MEChA is the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, which translates as the "Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán," Aztlan being the homeland, perhaps mythical, of the Aztecs. The sentiment most frequently associated with MEChA, which has hundreds of chapters in high schools and colleges across the U.S., is their statement "Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada", meaning "For the Race, everything, outside the Race, nothing.")

Probably the most famous "product" of the UC Riverside meeting was a line in one Art Torres's speech to the throng:

"Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white America in California. Understand that."

That smoking howitzer of an utterance by Torres is no mere urban legend. If the computer you're using has sound capabilities, you can hear it for yourself right now.

But you may object: "So a Hispanic man said something both frank and inflammatory about illegal immigration and California. So what?"

Well, Torres isn't just some obscure Joe Shmoe or even Jose Shmose. He is—and was, at the time he spoke—Chairman of the California Democratic Party. [Send him mail] He'd previously spent 20 years in the state's legislature.

So how did the world learn of Torres's blaring case of ethnocentric foot-in-mouth? For that we can thank the derring-do of Evelyn Miller.

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