There is also a relationship between La Raza and YPI charter schools, with scores of La Raza fellows teaching in the charter schools.
The National Council of La Raza, or “The Race,” advocates “comprehensive immigration reform,” calling for “the 12 million undocumented people in our country to come forward, obtain legal status, learn English, and assume the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.”
La Raza has opposed legislation to make English the official language of the U.S.
Former La Raza president Raul Yzaguirre reportedly declared in the 1990s that U.S. English, an organization dedicated to adopting the English language as the official language U.S. language, “is to Hispanics, as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.”
Obama Supporter Invests In Electric Voting
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, a top supporter of President Obama, is investing $40 million in Scytl, the Spain-based firm that in January 2012 acquired 100 percent of SOE Software, the leading software provider of election management solutions in the United States.
Allen made the investment via his Vulcan Capital, the investment management firm that oversees Allen’s multi-billion dollar portfolio.
Abhishek Agrawal, Vulcan Capital’s managing director, told the Wall Street Journal’s blog he expects countries to eventually become comfortable with digital-only elections.
Allen has donated to both Democrats and Republicans, including to the campaigns of Democratic Reps. Norm Dicks and Dennis Heck, both from Washington State, where Allen owns the Seattle Seahawks NFL football team.
One of Allen’s philanthropic organizations, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, earmarked a $60 million annual donation to support Obama’s initiative to map the activity of every neuron in the human brain.
In April 2013, Obama announced his plan, titled, the BRAIN Initiative, or the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative.
Another of Allen’s charitable groups, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, donated a total of $250,000 to the immigration reform advocacy group Centro de la Raza.
The same foundation provided $450,000 to the Urban Institute.
The supposedly nonpartisan Urban Institute’s employees have a record of donating nearly 100 percent of their political contributions to Democrats, and officially, the Urban Institute advocates for socialized medicine, carbon taxes, and amnesty for illegal aliens.
Allen’s partisan donations may concern some watchers of Scytl as the U.S. moves closer to online elections. In January, President Obama’s special commission on election reform recommended electronic voting in the future, even suggesting that such items as iPads may be suitable to cast votes,
