Showing posts with label Pedro Ochoa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pedro Ochoa. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

"Don't allow nigger integration in schools"


The patriotic Spanish-speaking Tejano organizations have their eye on you; they want to find out if you're a Tejano patriot or a simple traitor. My "Ochoa" newspapers have been instilling more patriotic American faithfulness to each resident in Texas. You will have noticed in your town, those persons that hated Texas and called themselves citizens of latin, hispanic or Mexican origin, etc., now they are informed by way of the press; and with pride they say "I'm an AMERICAN." No, no, it wasn't hunger that won them over. Help us make Texas better. You, your neighbor and I, of AMERICAN origin, are the example to be followed; this is our country. Don't allow nigger integration in schools or homes. Look for improvement and not retardation for your family. It's better to be alone than in the bad company of negroids. Equality means not permitting improvement. Millions of people of the black race hope that their candidates win the elections, and that way the niggers will be able to equalize and place themselves in high society and compete with your business. Your electoral vote is for you to improve your job and standard of living, and not to destroy social morality. 

Ochoa, Pedro. "Texas Necesita Mas Lealtad de Usted" The Dallas Americano May 28, 1958. Vol. 5 No. 58  Retrieved From The Dallas Public Library. 

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

"Vote against integration. Don't look to a black future"


Mexican American civic groups fought to eliminate segregated Mexican Schools on the basis that Mexican-origin pupils were white. They made little mention of the segregation of African Americans in black schools. When the Supreme Court handed down the Brown v. Board decision, Mexican American civic groups barely took notice...
And when the state legislature began passing laws to prolong segregation, the most prominent Mexican American organizations sided with the state government and not African Americans.
For example, some in LULAC debated the idea of joining forces with the NAACP to defeat the flood of racist bills coming from the legislature in 1957. League president Tijerina dismissed this idea. Similarly, LULAC's legal advisor, Phil Montalbo, explained to Tijerina, "[A] stand taken by you on such bills would tend to admit to our Anglo-American (sic) friends that we considered ourselves separate and apart from the majority of American citizens." Montalbo reminds us once again that, as whites, Anglos were the Mexican Americans' allies.

Numerous LULACers, and Mexican Americans more generally, agreed with this stance. For instance, A.G Ramirez stated succinctly, "[M]y district does not want our people and our beloved LULAC to be affiliated with the Negroes. We are white..."

Similarly, Dallas newsman Pedro Ochoa berated anyone wishing black-brown unity, explaining that many Mexican Americans "do not accept the integrationist precept at public schools, and perhaps churches and housing projects." Ochoa also warned Mexican Americans to "preserve your white race, vote against integration, don't look to a black future".

Sunday, August 19, 2018

The Mexican White Supremacist


Pedro R. Ochoa, owner of Ochoa Auto Parts and Publisher of the weekly six-page paper Dallas Americano, was a staunch White supremacist during the 1950s and printed headlines such as "conserva su raza blanca" (preserve your White race) and "segregacion es libertad" (segregation is liberty). Ochoa's whiteness embodied extremes of nativism and White supremacy... 
He regarded Mexican Americans who joined African Americans in the struggle for civil rights as race traitors and encouraged his readers to join the "Spanish Organization of White People."... 
Ochoa wrote: "...the NAACP, chamber of commerce and other nigger groups ["agrupaciones niggerianas"] have consistently promoted integration to raise the equality, intelligence, and superiority of the black race". 
Ochoa strongly believed that every improvement in the lives of Black Americans came at the expense of Latino Americans and that only by keeping blacks down could White Mexicans raise themselves up.

Reflexiones 1997: New Directions in Mexican American Studies Neil Foley - The University Of Texas, The Center For Mexican American Studies - 1998