LEIMERT PARK — A coalition of community activists from diverse backgrounds came together in Leimert Park Wednesday to denounce homeless activist Ted Hayes’ recent alliance with the ultra-conservative Minutemen Project as a means of battling illegal immigration.

During an afternoon news conference at the Lucy Florence Coffeehouse, activist Najee Ali said he believed Hayes is being used as a pawn by what he called a racist faction that never has affiliated itself with the black community until now.

“Ted Hayes and his involvement in the Minuteman group is certainly an issue that we should be concerned about,” Ali said. “We feel that [the Minutemen] will polarize the [black and Latino] communities. It will bring us farther and farther apart instead of [bringing us] together collectively to talk about tolerance, peace and resolution.”

Hayes, who did not attend the news conference, said he approached the Minutemen about eight months ago, in part, because they were in support of helping the homeless. Hayes help organize Dome Village, the homeless encampment west of downtown.

“I’m realizing that illegal immigration is taking away the resources of the homeless,” Hayes said. “The Minutemen are right. They want to help the homeless. I can’t get Jesse [Jackson] or [Rep.] Maxine Waters to work with the homeless. Who’s helping me? White people.”

Others speakers at the Leimert Park news conference faulting Hayes’ alignment with the Minutemen included Randy Jurado Ertll, executive director of El Centro De Accion Social; Gideon Krakov of the Progressive Jewish Alliance, attorney Cynthia McClain-Hill and writer and activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson.

“We [have] enough violence between black and Latinos in schools, jails and in the community,” Ali said. “We’re speaking out against potential violence that may happen based on Ted Hayes.”

Ertll agreed with Ali saying that “we need to unite both communities. I think it’s time that [blacks and Latinos] start talking to each other more and finding common ground and common issues that we can work on together.”

“I think the president and Congress need to find a solution to [illegal immigration] because it will create more divisions in the future,” Ertll said.

It’s a matter of learning to listen and “walk in other people’s shoes,” added Krakov “and not being a part of the problem, but being a part of the solution.”

Hayes, a Republican, his newly formed Crispus Attucks Brigade, and some of his Minutemen allies held a forum Sunday in Leimert Park, drawing more than 100 people. It became an intense war of words between him and another group, the Progressive Alliance, a coalition of blacks and Latinos urging unity.

The argument grew into a physical altercation for which Hayes later apologized.

During the Sunday forum, Hayes announced a plan to hold a protest march in downtown Los Angeles on May 21 and invited gang members to join the border patrol.

Tuesday Hayes said he went to the downtown Mexican Consulate to “clarify” the goals for his new group.

“We support civil rights for illegal immigrants — but in Mexico, in the country that drove [illegal immigrants] out — whatever country that drove you out,” he said. “[Iillegal immigrants are] coming here to get my civil rights, something [blacks] fought for. You just can’t come here and take our civil rights.

“We’re going to champion your cause for civil rights in Mexico. We, as blacks, are going to be your champion,” he said. “You might not understand now, but in time you will.”

Hayes said he wrote the Mexican consulate general a letter about five weeks ago, asking President Vicente Fox to allow a multi-ethnic delegation led by blacks to talk with Fox, Cardinal Roger Mahony and other Mexican civic and social leaders as a means of restoring civil rights back to Mexicans.

Hayes has called illegal immigration the “biggest threat to blacks in America since slavery.”

Why are people giving so much free press to this nobody whose years on the streets have obviously caused him to lose his mind. Before all of this anti-immigrant hoopla, Ted Hayes was just some wacko from the streets whose only claim to fame was that he managed to build a biodome facility for homeless peope and that he once got shot by the LAPD during the DNC and was stupid enough to blame other protestors for his calamity. This guy would be about as absent on the public radar as Linden Larouche or David Horowitz, but now everybody from the 5 o'clock news to the African American and Latino activist establishment are acting like he really has an impact on what people say and think, even amongst homeless people, who could really give a s$#t. African American gang members could give a s@#t too, as many of them "do business" with Latinos on a daily basis and even have relationships with Latinos, especially in South L.A. But people have been so brainwashed by the news media's ability to divide our communities that they're bamboozled into thinking this guy has influence with dudes who'd probably rather jack him for getting on their nerves rather than listening to a goddamn thing he has to say.

America's distraction with the immigration issue has to end so we can get back to the business of kicking bush's ass out of office. Then you'll see what happends to wackos like Hayes, the minutemen, and others, since they love him so much (Hayes is also an ardent supporter of bush and the war in iraq)--they'll jut be another fart in the wind. Of course we'll have to register the minutemen with the Department of Homeland Security, since once their movement is defeated in the court of public opinion (i.e. once the press stops giving them free airtime and once we also kick the governazi out of office) the remainders of their ilk will probably devolve into the American taliban. Intelligent and humane Americans will prevail over the moronic minority.

There aren't enough Mexicans to execute your paranoid fantasies of "reconquista."

Also, I found some info, on Free Republic of all places, that linked to some reliable Library of Congress info, that implies that there won't even be enough Mexicans to emigrate to the US in 20 years. Mexico is approaching zero population growth among Mexicans.

The US is already at a negative population growth among natives. All the population growth comes from immigration.

I never really thought about the combined effect of zero population growth in Mexico and the US. It could get interesting, because we'll be trying to attract immigrants from other countries, farther away. The border with Mexico will probably be opened significantly, in both directions.

It could be funny. There will be a lot of new Indians here in Aztlan, but they won't speak Mixtec or Nahua... they'll speak Hindi. And the SOS/MM/KKK will probably find some irony in the fact that some of these Indians will be Aryans (or maybe not... it's a controversial point, but I don't know much about the arguments.).

READ IT AND WEEP YOU IGNORANT STOOGE...

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Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets; "Go back to Boston! Go back to
Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and
tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old
white people. It is your duty to die . . . Through love of having children,
we are going to take over.

Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council. "They're afraid we're
going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions.
They're right. We will take them over . . . We are here to stay."

Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico, "The American
Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without
firing a single shot."

Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas; "We have an
aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The
explosion is in our population . . . I love it. They are shitting in their pants
with fear. I love it."

Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party,
"Remember 187--proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to
non-citizens--was the last gasp of white America in California."

Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor, "We are
politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of
this country . . . I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, "I'm
going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back."

Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and
California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under
Governor Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton, "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who
doesn't like it should leave."

Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General , "We are practicing
'La Reconquista' in California."

Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University; "We need
to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos . . . "

Are these just the words of a few extremists? Consider that we
could fill up many pages with such quotes. Also, consider that these are
mainstream Mexican leaders.

THE U.S. VS MEXICO:
On February 15, 1998, the U.S. and Mexican soccer teams met at the
Los Angeles Coliseum. The crowd was overwhelmingly pro-Mexican even though
most lived in this country. They booed during the National Anthem and U.S.
flags were held upside down. As the match progressed, supporters of the U.S.
team were insulted, pelted with projectiles, punched and spat upon. Beer and
trash were thrown at the U.S. players before and after the match. The
coach of the U.S. team, Steve Sampson said, "This was the most painful
experience I have ever had in this profession."
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No Reconquista? Whites didn't make up that term... Mexicans did.

Get with reality or get gone.

Ted Hayes = a nobody ?

And just what have you given your life to ? Help anyone lately ?

You are not worthy to carry his shoes.

Ted is right. 'Black leaders' are hypocrites. They are not interested in helping those in need in their communities. They are only interested in their own fame and fortune. The MM's on the other hand are very interested in the plight of the homeless.

Don,

Man you are ignorant. Ted Hayes may not be a nobody in the Black community, but he's a JOKE in the Black community.

Oh. Yeah. Please provide us a link to the plank in the Minutemen platform on the homeless.

Right, that's what I thought...

Oh, you probably don't know about Hayes calling for Food Not Bombs activists to be arrested because they were feeding the homeless during the holidays...

And I guess it's not totally fair to call Ted a joke in the Black community.

He's more thought of as a Judas. Just like THAT.

Damn, what poops you are as activists. Don't even do your homework.

Slobbering all over yourselves to get a Black activist. And you pick the ONE guy held in such contempt by the community that you've mobilized the whole Black leadership of the city against you.

Of course no one who's respected in the Black community would give you the time of day.

Arrogant white racist clowns.

Pitiful.

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