"We are above that. Leave that to the Negros."

Many Mexican Americans opposed black protests at both the state and the national level. They did not participate in demonstrations with African Americans, and they generally detested the fact that blacks throughout America engaged in these protests. As labor leader Pancho Medrano remembered, LULAC, the G.I. Forum, PASO, and other groups always rejected protesting. 

“Even at their state conventions,” Medrano stated, “when you tried to say, ‘Start demanding or picketing or marching,’ they say, ‘No. We are above that.’ Especially the LULACs; they say, ‘We have more pride or education than that. You leave this to the Negroes.’”... 

Some leaders rejected demonstrations, others denigrated protests, and some went so far as to criticize the most momentous protest of the 1960s: the March on Washington. LULAC, for example, drew up a resolution denouncing the march... 

Once again the league’s leaders firmly communicated to African Americans that they could not look to LULAC for aid or support. Like Felix Tijerina before them, Paul Andow and William Bonilla made sure that association with groups like the NAACP would not besmirch LULAC’s image.

Behnken, Brian D. Fighting Their Own Battles Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Felix Mexican Restaurant

A prominent and respected restauranteur, Felix Tijerina practiced a form of white supremacy that was common in the 50s. For one thing, he took the unusual step of posting a detailed policy statement, titled "Negroes," on the serving of blacks in his Felix Mexican Restaurants... 

Tijerina charted out specific situations and gave his staff stock statements to use if African Americans attempted to be seated at one of his restaurants... 

Other entrepreneurs shared his view. G.I Forum official Manuel Avila told Forum leader Ed Idar "The Negro knows he can't go into white businesses," Avila argued, "but he will try and use the Mexican as an ally and as self defense unless the Chicano says "I'm white and you can't come into my restaurant." Like Tijerina and other Mexican American business people, Avila wished to show no sign of unity with African Americans in order to promote cooperative relations with whites.

Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle For Civil Rights in TexasBrian Behnken - University Of North Carolina Press - 2011