That is what you call a hasty generalization

It's also called smearing with a wide brush. The problem with doing that is some of it gets on yourself.

I'm not familiar with MECha so I did a little research on it.  Before I post what I found, would one, or some of you explain it?

I'm off to work now and will be back this evening.  Work really does get in the way of blogging.  Sigh.

 MEChA is an Hispanic separatist organization that encourages anti-American activities and civil disobedience. The radical members of MEChA who refer to themselves as "Mechistas," romanticize Mexican claims to the "lost Territories" of the Southwestern United States -- a Chicano country called Aztlan. In its national constitution, MEChA calls for self-determination by its members to liberate Aztlan. MEChA's national constitution starts out: "Chicano and Chicana students of Aztlán must take upon themselves the responsibilities to promote Chicanismo within the community, politicizing our Raza with an emphasis on indigenous consciousness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlán."

 These anti-American "Mechistas" live with the false illusion that they are being racially discriminated against because they are Latinos while totally dismissing the idea that maybe it is their ideology that is being discriminated against.

 At the MEChA National Conference on March 15 - 18, 2001, the official MEChA Philosophy was ratified. An excerpt from the document states: "as Mechistas, we vow to work for the liberation of Aztlan."

MEChA is anti-semitic:

One event of particular note took place at California Polytechnic State University, located in San Luis Obispo, California. In early November, the campus MEChA (the Mexican-American Student Association) organization sponsored a statewide youth conference, drawing approximately 1,200 college and high school students. Astonishingly, the printed conference program began by welcoming the participants to "Cal Poly State Jewniversity" and including a reference to the city of "Jew York." Such references reflect the rhetoric and style of Khalid Abdul Muhammad, who had been a featured speaker on campus the year before.

As a result of the work of ADL and the campus Hillel, the Cal Poly MEChA organization issued a formal apology, a repudiation of the anti-Semitism and expelled those students who had been responsible for the production of the printed conference program. In addition, the president of the University as well as the chairs of the Academic Senate and student government issued a strong statement denouncing the distribution of such anti-Semitic material on campus. The statements were circulated throughout the campus community and sent to all those who had attended the MEChA conference.

MEChA advocates killing INS (Now ICE) employees:

FIRE - Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - reminded UCSD of a case in 1995 involving MEChA's own publication, Voz Fronteriza, when the University in general, and Vice Chancellor Watson in particular, issued an unequivocal defense of the right to free expression. In May of 1995, Voz Fronteriza published an editorial on the death of a Latino Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) agent, entitled "Death of a Migra Pig." The MEChA editorial termed the dead agent a "traitor...to his race," stated, "We're glad this pig died, he deserved to die," and argued, "All the Migra pigs should be killed, every single one...the only good one is a dead one...The time to fight back is now. It is time to organize an anti-Migra patrol...It is to [sic] bad that more Migra pigs didn't die with him."

The official slogan of MEChA is: “For the Race, Everything. For Those Outside the Race, Nothing.”

The INS Agent they are degrading is Enrique Camarena, who was tortured to death with pliers and a blowtorch. This is just a sample of what this bunch stands for, as there is quite a bit more.

They were a big force at BC during the 70's.  I'm not sure what they do now.

They were a big force at BC during the 70's.  I'm not sure what they do now.

Most of them were just taking up space where a real student could have been, but since Prop. 209 put an end to racial preferences in university admissions, there will be only a scattered few who are actually students at a UC or CSU campus. Most of the Latinos who show up for "rallies" at any of these campuses are either non-students or are community college students like the woman featured above.