Read this commentary by the editorial board. They argue that male, White men are being given unfair treatment in admissions to college as a form of unqualified admissions. White women are being hampered in college admissions. At the end, the article mentioned that the differences, academic, were even greater when compared to Black and latino males.
The assumption is that women do not get any societial favorable treatment. Everywhere I go and have been at, women are treated more favorably. From the younger years, females are better treated, better taken care of and not viewed as a threat even when they are cunning and deceiving.
Even in high school, women were better treated. They at least got attention. They received male attention which is what makes a woman feel like a woman. They would feel something wrong if males did not stare and yes gawk at them. They got the whistles or the psss, psss, psss. They got free coffees and burritos.
What have I received as a Mexican male? No burrito, much less no coffee and no psss, psss, psss except for the gay guys at UCLA. I took it as a compliment with a "no hands on" policy. I had to work for my grades even in high school. I had no easy grade, my 3.2 high school gpa was actually earned from 9th to 12 grade. That should have been my B.A. I had extra curricular activities, the helmet hits should have given me the spring semester off. The football grade of A was the most painful grade I have earned. It still hurts, 23 years later. Our helmets did not even have cushion the way they do today.
My high school teachers, never gave me a grade because I didn't have cleavage and had hairy legs. How are White women being left out? They get compliments, are not considered threatening and that alone is a great stress reliever. White women, are fortunate, they get preferences from their male teachers--most of which are White and their teachers--most of which are White too. Their grades are at best social promotions. My wife mentioned arrogant White females complaining about their grades in English at Orange Coast College, because their teachers at Newport Harbor High never gave them true grades. Once held accountable, they complaint and those same White men and White women were sure to hear their complaint out. If you are a Mexican American and you hear the word "illegal alien" by your White professors, don't waste your time complaining because they won't pay attention, academic freedom.
And if White women feel they are persecuted in their college endeavor, I would ask them the following, "Do you have to register for the draft"? I go to the Post Office and see the Selective Service registration cards. "Attention Men: You must register, it is the law". And yes, I was scared when I filled it out in 1987. Adulthood had set in and I do not remember any White female having to register at the post office in Hawthorne.
What more do White women want? The law protects women more even when they instigate. Divorce laws benefit them. Easier grades are given to them. They can at least get free coffee by smiling and never have to spend a dime. Free rides and never have to pay for sex as males do. By the way, sex is just as beneficial to women as to men. Males are not doing females a favor. While Mexican American males generally get left overs even by Mexican American females.
And the end result is the economy of today. White women are surviving the depression much better than males. This is the maleession. When racialized, Mexican American males are living the depression, ask me, I have 2 Masters' from UCLA and am on unemployment. But I see White females go about their merry ways in the places I like. If White males think they have it hard, walk in my shoes or my buddy Ruben who has been unemployed for 9 months.
For you Mexican American females who think White, keep thinking that way, sooner or later you'll wake up and see that you are still taking orders from White or now Black females.
If all you can do is discredit my sayings as rumblings, I know my reality and do not depend on your reaffirmations, like you mattered.
So according to the LA Times article, we Mexican American males are academically quite inferior to White females. Or better said, more stupid.
I would be ahead if I could sell my body for a grade, coffee, marriage or a job which still amounts to working the world's oldest profession.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Chalino: A Chronicle Play of Fulgor and Death
Is officially out! I received my copy from www.floricantopress.com or you can purchase it on amazon.com too.
I came across a book titled, "Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department" and the author Clemens Brown stated that outsiders teaching Black Studies has been detrimental to Black Students. I use the word Black because I am originally from Inglewood and Blacks called themselves Black. That is the only identity they have created themselves which should be valued.
But Mr. Brown stated that "Carribbean, Asian and White females teaching Black Studies has hurt Black students and Black professors". Meaning US Blacks.
This made me think about the points that I say about Mexican American Studies and the negative affects of outsiders teaching including those born in Mexico. First and foremost, any Centro American, Carribbean or South American who teaches Mexican American Studies is detrimental to Mexican American students. The simple reason is they do not know the culture and facts do not substitute for culture. These people are stealing from those Mexican Americans who have limited opportunities in higher education.
And White administrators who permit this should be held accountable for their racism including non-white administrators. How dare them disrespect the culture and our specific US Americaness.
Second, I would throw in Whites who have a Mexican parent and those born in Mexico. Those Whites who want to claim the Mexican American card, because this word is used now more for Whites who have a Mexican/White parent than for us US born Mexican Americans, the answer is simple. I do not have a White card in my pocket. I should know, I married one. They can morph into Whiteness, I cannot. So just because you dress up in folkloric dresses like the chair of Chicano Studies at CSU Dominguez Hills, that does not make you Mexican American. And for the record, no mother of mine ever dressed with those ballet folclorico dresses, she would think you were dancing in some festival. In addition, Mexican American mothers do not dress that way, they are in the US not in some Oaxaca market. Talk about stereotyping. The only time I see women wear those dresses are White women who want to be Oaxacan, travelled to or they moved to Oaxaca and feel they are now Zapotecs.
For those born in Mexico, the rule should also apply because they were not born in the US must the same as a Mexican American is not born in Mexico. They are two foreign entities. And if you think I am wrong, for Mexican Americans go to the Mexican Consulate or el Registro Civil in Baja California and ask them for your birth certificate. The Consulate in Los Angeles will make you feel quite American even if your parents are born in Mexico and in Baja California they will do a data search for your birth certificate and tell you that you do not exist. I learned that the hard way from both places.
So my Mexican Americaness is strictly American.
But the hard hear is to assume that somebody born in Mexico who is moved north will have the same upbringing as those from the US. The answer is simple, no. You can't arbitrarily say that they have the same upbringing. They do not.
US Mexican born have their own culture and if you throw in geography I would argue that Tejanos and Califorences have nothing in common. We don't even eat the same food. If you have travelled to Nuevo Mexico and Tejas one should know the difference. I have driven throughout the Southwest and the Sierra Madre Occidental east of Meza, Arizona serves as a true cultural continental divide.
But returning to the Mexico born who teaches Chicano Studies. The danger falls in one case I have seen from teaching in Glendale College. A full time job was given to a man named Carlos Ugalde who taught he was Che Guevara. He was hired to be a Mexican American Studies professor and in his warped communist vision of we are the world he killed Mexican American Studies. There was never any growth from 1980 for Mexican Americans. He felt he had to be Mr. Latin America. Like they care about us.
He created courses on Centro America, the Carribbean, South America and neglected Mexican American Studies. The same Mexican American course from 1980. This was a rotten hire for the future by these White administrators who wanted to have a brown face there. In addition, he made us look like clowns with his Fidel Castro look and usage of the word companhero, like we were "comrades". That is not even Mexican American cultural lingo from Los Angeles.
Thus he killed Mexican American Studies and created a curriculum that amounted to foreigners teaching classes versus Mexican Americans. No courses were created for MexAm literature, culture, sociology, male or family studies much less on the diversity of Mex Am communities. It's like we died. No wonder I use to think that Chicano Studies were low class grade studies; just take a look at the professors who did teach these subjects. The barrio mentality was present. Or how to differentiate between MexAm and recent arrivals from Mexico. Because immigration is not a Mexican American topic. We don't care about immigration, we were born here. If people don't have their residency what this demonstrates is new history which means not Mexican American. Ugalde killed any curriculum and pedagogical growth for the pleasure of his make believe mentality that all people from the Western Hemisphere is one when they are not.
So he retired and with budget cuts made it essay to just continue with one miserable course that amounts to peanuts. In 28 years of teaching he proved that Mexican Americans are not thinkers or philosophers but idiots of the modern era. And with a non Mexican American chair who believes in the Latinoness of the era and his feminist mindset, it is not shocking to see the Ethnization of Mexican Americans into a Feminization that amounts to "we hate Mexican American males" and that is the curriculum of today. If women want a feminization curriculum, why don't they attend female colleges. Go join the Wellesleys and Mills Colleges.
Thus foreigners not only monetarily take away from Mexican Americans they kill the curriculum.
And as a female from Saltillo, Coahuila once told me when I asked her what she thought about Mexican Americans, "We don't think about you guys, you are lost to us".
And we should not lose ourselves!
I came across a book titled, "Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department" and the author Clemens Brown stated that outsiders teaching Black Studies has been detrimental to Black Students. I use the word Black because I am originally from Inglewood and Blacks called themselves Black. That is the only identity they have created themselves which should be valued.
But Mr. Brown stated that "Carribbean, Asian and White females teaching Black Studies has hurt Black students and Black professors". Meaning US Blacks.
This made me think about the points that I say about Mexican American Studies and the negative affects of outsiders teaching including those born in Mexico. First and foremost, any Centro American, Carribbean or South American who teaches Mexican American Studies is detrimental to Mexican American students. The simple reason is they do not know the culture and facts do not substitute for culture. These people are stealing from those Mexican Americans who have limited opportunities in higher education.
And White administrators who permit this should be held accountable for their racism including non-white administrators. How dare them disrespect the culture and our specific US Americaness.
Second, I would throw in Whites who have a Mexican parent and those born in Mexico. Those Whites who want to claim the Mexican American card, because this word is used now more for Whites who have a Mexican/White parent than for us US born Mexican Americans, the answer is simple. I do not have a White card in my pocket. I should know, I married one. They can morph into Whiteness, I cannot. So just because you dress up in folkloric dresses like the chair of Chicano Studies at CSU Dominguez Hills, that does not make you Mexican American. And for the record, no mother of mine ever dressed with those ballet folclorico dresses, she would think you were dancing in some festival. In addition, Mexican American mothers do not dress that way, they are in the US not in some Oaxaca market. Talk about stereotyping. The only time I see women wear those dresses are White women who want to be Oaxacan, travelled to or they moved to Oaxaca and feel they are now Zapotecs.
For those born in Mexico, the rule should also apply because they were not born in the US must the same as a Mexican American is not born in Mexico. They are two foreign entities. And if you think I am wrong, for Mexican Americans go to the Mexican Consulate or el Registro Civil in Baja California and ask them for your birth certificate. The Consulate in Los Angeles will make you feel quite American even if your parents are born in Mexico and in Baja California they will do a data search for your birth certificate and tell you that you do not exist. I learned that the hard way from both places.
So my Mexican Americaness is strictly American.
But the hard hear is to assume that somebody born in Mexico who is moved north will have the same upbringing as those from the US. The answer is simple, no. You can't arbitrarily say that they have the same upbringing. They do not.
US Mexican born have their own culture and if you throw in geography I would argue that Tejanos and Califorences have nothing in common. We don't even eat the same food. If you have travelled to Nuevo Mexico and Tejas one should know the difference. I have driven throughout the Southwest and the Sierra Madre Occidental east of Meza, Arizona serves as a true cultural continental divide.
But returning to the Mexico born who teaches Chicano Studies. The danger falls in one case I have seen from teaching in Glendale College. A full time job was given to a man named Carlos Ugalde who taught he was Che Guevara. He was hired to be a Mexican American Studies professor and in his warped communist vision of we are the world he killed Mexican American Studies. There was never any growth from 1980 for Mexican Americans. He felt he had to be Mr. Latin America. Like they care about us.
He created courses on Centro America, the Carribbean, South America and neglected Mexican American Studies. The same Mexican American course from 1980. This was a rotten hire for the future by these White administrators who wanted to have a brown face there. In addition, he made us look like clowns with his Fidel Castro look and usage of the word companhero, like we were "comrades". That is not even Mexican American cultural lingo from Los Angeles.
Thus he killed Mexican American Studies and created a curriculum that amounted to foreigners teaching classes versus Mexican Americans. No courses were created for MexAm literature, culture, sociology, male or family studies much less on the diversity of Mex Am communities. It's like we died. No wonder I use to think that Chicano Studies were low class grade studies; just take a look at the professors who did teach these subjects. The barrio mentality was present. Or how to differentiate between MexAm and recent arrivals from Mexico. Because immigration is not a Mexican American topic. We don't care about immigration, we were born here. If people don't have their residency what this demonstrates is new history which means not Mexican American. Ugalde killed any curriculum and pedagogical growth for the pleasure of his make believe mentality that all people from the Western Hemisphere is one when they are not.
So he retired and with budget cuts made it essay to just continue with one miserable course that amounts to peanuts. In 28 years of teaching he proved that Mexican Americans are not thinkers or philosophers but idiots of the modern era. And with a non Mexican American chair who believes in the Latinoness of the era and his feminist mindset, it is not shocking to see the Ethnization of Mexican Americans into a Feminization that amounts to "we hate Mexican American males" and that is the curriculum of today. If women want a feminization curriculum, why don't they attend female colleges. Go join the Wellesleys and Mills Colleges.
Thus foreigners not only monetarily take away from Mexican Americans they kill the curriculum.
And as a female from Saltillo, Coahuila once told me when I asked her what she thought about Mexican Americans, "We don't think about you guys, you are lost to us".
And we should not lose ourselves!
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