To Trixie, Thank you for your comments, in my world there is always room for a 40 something year old White woman, I need your audience. I do try to be critical but across the board. Just as I will criticize a White woman or male, I will do so to Mexican Americans who are fake, self serving and pretend to be righteous when they are not. I do have biases against southern Mexicans who think they are better than us Northern Mexican Americans and their offspring who want to claim our generational Mexican American space. But that is the Apache in Me speaking, we have history with that.
On another note, my book Chalino was reviewed by the Cal State Long Beach online magazine. I was surprised and honored simply because I was chosen and in this world that means something. The irony was that I was showcased but haven't worked there in two years because I was fired for my ideas through the excuse of budget cuts. I do oppose non Mexican Americans in Chicano Studies and they didn't like that. There shouldn't be people born in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain and Costa Rica in what is Mexican Ameican Studies. Those are immigrants and Mexican Americans are not immigrants apart from being desert Apache and Navajo, Chumash decended people. How can those Mexican Americans born in California be equated with someone born in Sinaloa, Jalisco or Michoacan? The spatial residence proves we are not even if some perceive them to be the same people.
Those born in Mexico have just pushed those of us born in the US aside and we have no say everthough we are Americans by birth. Why are foreigners being given the keys? I didn't fil out an application to become a citizen, it was a fate determined in US law and regional history. I didn't take a test nor get interviewed by a Phillipine worker or attend a swearing in ceremony with people from around the world.
Hence the administration and Che Guevara idealist people like former chair Luis Arroyo have pushed and advocated for Latin America to move into an American realm and with no qualms have killed a department that was intended for US born Mexicans. That is what Chicano means, a Mexican American, not someone born in Mexico and raised in the US much less a Puerto Rican. White people didn't kill Mexican American Studies, illogical Che Guevara followers who believe that from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego are all the same, did. Well Mexican Americans are born north of the Rio Grande or north of the New River in the Imperial Valley so how would they fit in to Che Guevara's stupidity. If that was the case, only one country from Mexico to Brazil-Argentina would exist, but they are not. Their borders prove that and occasional wars over boundaries.
The ultimate damage was that discriminated Mexican Americans have the doors closed like me and I can't use the " I was born in Mexico syndrome and I was undocumented" line while people who are not Americans have moved in an American field and have subverted it and changed it to immigrant studies along with the east Latino identity which has nothing to do with us Mexican Americans. We are not Puerto Ricans.
Thus with a smile in my face I relished the fact that I was show cased as the author of the month even though I don't work there anymore. I am not judged by merit but then again, this is America where a political agenda is always at work.
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