It always amazes me when someone points the "you are racist" finger at someone else. I usually find that the finger-pointer either doesn't know or doesn't care.
From what I understand, "La Raza" is a term used to denote, for me anyway, a survival-oriented 'philosophy of oneness' between all peoples, for the benefit of all peoples.
"La Raza is a Spanish-language phrase which, while literally translated as the race, is more often used as a synonym of "el pueblo" or "la gente", both of which mean "the people". It is used to denote the people of Latin America who share the cultural and political legacies of Spanish colonialism, including the Spanish language and culture. Often, the term "La Raza" also encompasses a racial significance associated with "mestizaje", or race-mixing.
In this sense, "La Raza" is a term that is inclusive of all the racial identities that compose the Iberian peninsula, including Arabs and Spanish people, as well as the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the descendents of African peoples brought to Latin America as slaves, European immigrants, and all the mixtures therebetween.
In his 1925 essay La Raza Cósmica, Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos draws on the idea of the cultural synthesis propelled by Latin American racial mixing as a source of strength and hope for Latin Americans and for humanity as a whole."