To My Friend Hector Gonzalez

Hec, (Reply to Tejanos claims of Spanish heritage and the immigration debate)


This is too Spanish, most of the Tejanos are not Spanish nor Spanish culture except for some lost people but really Arapaho, Mescalero, Comanche, Apache, Coahuila, Kikapuh and those that claim they are Hispanics are basically Catholic Converts and not somebody from Spain.
As long as US born Tejanos are not threaten southern Mexicans/ citizens from another country don't really matter, they come and go anyway. It's not the duty of Mexican Americans to worry about people that recently arrived if recently was 20 years ago. Mexican Americans can barely afford to pay the rent, its not their duty to be responsible for Mexico's people like they are not responsible for US born Mexicans. They import Argentineans en masse numbers, accomodate them into the economy but those born there are not. That's an internal issue of Mexico and immigration is not an issue for those of US born in the US.

My niece who was born in California and had her struggles with high school can't get a job because they say she doesn't have a diploma but people who arrive from the south do though they don't have a diploma or citizenship of the US. Mexican Americans need to let the immigration issue go because that becomes priority while we get pushed to the side, are forgotten, dont' get hired by many colleges because it goes to immigrant born like at CSULB in Chicano Studies, don't get into graduate schools and can't even get hired to basic jobs because of White stereotypes of being lazy that immigrants from Mexico state themselves.

We have work discrimination for those that remain employed and who defends them, not the LULACS or the MALDEFS.
I'm not going to waste my vote on foreigners which also include Canadians, Europeans, Centro/South Americans and Asians for they sure progress much faster while not US born.
They are also taking our narrative, CSULA wants to change the name to Latino Studies but the precedent of 40 years of a diploma in Mexican American Studies is being intentionally eliminated. What don't people understand, are they that stupid? A person born in Mexico or Central America is not a Mexican American. What am I missing in this? Even the Department of Commerce differentiates in US birth certificate form that Mexican Americans are different from Mexico born people--14th amendment and racially and different from Centro America and South America. The very US knows the difference but mainstream academicians don't, go figure.
As you always say, "in the music world, the paisas have taken the Mexican American slot" and "Mexico doesn't want you to perform over there as they make their permit process impossible".

It's racist to lump US born Mexicans with foreigners.