Who are we?

I once read by a female writer on why should she be labeled an identity, versus a human then when on to identify herself as a Latina. 

I found this to be the most contradictory of points because the word Latina which I use to believe was either the metal tub or the name of a Black woman has now become the entry point to heaven.  If you don't say the word with a Spanish last name then you won't be allowed into the new panteon of an informal racial category that came forth some time in the 1990's.

The imposition came from the Puerto Ricans and Cubans in the US East Coast and the Spanish media outlets and then the few academia centers of the East who attempted to make sense of not only Puerto Ricans but Dominicans and Colombians but excluded Haitians.  Why?  Because they speak French which is also a Latin based language.  Where is the logic?  The Haitians are on the same island as the Dominicans.  The same island.

This lumping of people has really really hurt generational Mexican Americans--Califorences much like mixing with other groups have hurt Mexican Americans.  The answer is simple, whether the label is Latino or mxing with Whites, Blacks or other people from Centro America--the Mexican American stops being Mexican American.  I should know, I see it in my family.  I even see it when southern Mexicans from Michoacan or Jalisco mix with Califorence Mexican Americans.  The food is different--I can't handle those corundas and that horrible white menudo without maize.  I'm glad I never stayed with those exes from Michoacan.  They don't even eat flour tortillas or pinto frijoles, they eat black beans.  The Apache needs his flour tortillas and pinto beans.  I don't even know what Cuban or Puerto Rican food is and neither do the Puerto Ricans because they are always eating Cuban food in Los Angeles.  Show me a Puerto Rican restaurant in Los Angeles.

Thus just because media outlets have told the younger generations those 25 and under that they are Latinos they accept it blindly. Much like young soldiers who are given orders to walk on the minefield and they do so without realizing they are fodder for the officers. So they march blindly and accept the orders.  What makes a Mexican American a latino?  What does latino mean?  Language?  More than half of Mexican Spanish is Uto Aztecan whether Nahuatl, Cahita, Purepecha or Apachean.  The same would apply for every country south of Mexico.  I should know, I traveled to all of Central America, Bolivia, Peru and Argentina and I was linguistically lost.  I was even lost when I would meet people from Centro Mexico who moved to Inglewood, I would not understand their lingo and only others from those regions would explain the linguistic variations.  If Spanish is the sole determinant, then English would also be considered a Latino language because half of it is Latin based at least British English.  California English is based on Mexican American Spanish--rancho, valle, delfin, chota, burritos.  Where is the logic?

 But if these individuals are accepting the label they can't be faulted either because the so called "leaders" Chicano Studies of the academes accept the same logic.  Didn't this group of identiy less souls work so hard to create the "East Los Angeles' term of Chicano only to trade it in for Latino 30 years later.  What do you expect from individuals that were mixing Che Guevara, Benito Juarez, the Virgen de Guadalupe and Cesar Chavez as one.  Talk about being brain dead or brainless. Most of these quasi academics just follow what their White College professors cloned them to be.  Identityless until that position in Chicano Studies opens up for them.  Hence their hire is not based on academics but on perception.  Look at Luis Arroyo at CSULB and David Rodriguez at CSUN and why forget Michael Soldatenko at CSULA.  At best Whitewash clones who themselves don't have an identity and only have their position at these so called "Academes"  if they really are?  What have they produced of their own thinking?  They haven't even updated their courses, they relie on newer clones which they have given access to by hiring them even if they are not Mexican American which historically meant Chicano.

Chicanos only meant US born and should only mean US born Mexican Americans.  It is not Mexico born people, much less Centro Americans or Puerto Ricans.  If you can't notice the difference you really are high and stupid.  At least high you were attempting to find clarity but the academe teaches straight ignorance and confuses the soldier and sends him or her to die without question.

Maybe I should claim my Whiteness as my birth certificate states.  At least that is official versus some stupid Spanish media telling me we are the same when we all know we are not.

Thank God I am not a Latino.