I recently reread a generic political science book and was surprised to learn not some much generic information. Information that is actually very valuable for many of my arguments in furthering the comprehension of Mexican Americans. As I read the section on civil rights, there was a breakdown as usual revolving around Blacks first though every inch of expansion was on Native American countries including Mexico. Hence to focus only Blacks white red people were fighting for their survival is one example of selective historiality. Whites feel they in essence created the Black but with Mexican Americans they can't say that specifically for the simple reason of our prior existence. And as an Apache I know we were not invented by Whites rather interuppted by them.
Then I came across the section on Hispanics which refers only to Mexican Americans as stated in the chapter and by birth, US which I found interesting because an ongoing theme has been to focus on US born for me. Many disagree with me but US birth means something and these authors agree with me or I with them. Then I came across the United Farmworker info and a phrase that caught my attention: "In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled in the Cisneros vs. Independent School District of Corpus Christi that Mexican Americans were a national minority and were now entitled to the 1964 Civil Rights Act". It blew my mind that even when I was born I was not considered a minority but I was a red man, black hair, spoke the California language prior to the US arrival mixed with so much Apache lingo that even southern Mexicans did not comprehend my workds. Civil Rights and affirmative action did not apply to my kind.
Then I read the section on Women's Liberation which I have extensively written about because in simple terms I don't see White women as a minority because they weren't segregated or looked down upon and even if poorer they could still pick who marry and better their societal position. Afterall they were still White and if the money issue did not pan out they could still chose who to have sex with and that for me is the ultimate power of any woman. The power to chose who they want to have sex with is the ultimate power of the human being.
So I read the prior struggle that even during the carnage days of the Cherokees or Black enslavement, White women were still citizens even if they couldn't vote. States determined that women could not vote but they were still citizens whereas no Native American or Black was a citizen. How bad were White women off? The Supreme Court ruled that voting came from the states yet the White women were still part of the country club so to speak. Not being able to vote was not the worst thing out there. Women are still not allowed to be priest in the Catholic Church and the majority in attendance are women. It must not be that bad.
Then I read that women were given the right to vote in 1919 but Native Americans born in this land were not even citizens until 1924 so who had it rough. An d with Jim Crow Laws, Plessy vs Ferguson the law of the land, poll taxes, No Dogs, Negroes, Mexicans signed and Hombres Aqui abounding plus Mexican schools how bad did White women have it? Then to my amazement when the Civil Rights legislation was passed White women were included though they had not been segregated by any of the laws I mentioned. How in the world did they then get included into the Civil Rights legislation when they were not forced to ride in the back of the bus? Or better yet, the White woman who felt offended by the Emmit Till whistle would have the same protection as Emmit Till.
The end result of that legislation is astounding that White women without ever having been segregated where given civil rights protection yet Mexican Americans who were legally segregated or called "wetbacks" as my father was in Imperial County was not given Civil Rights protection when the Mexicans needed it the most. My birth certificate states my father was a caucasian tomate packer but he was an Apache, how White could he have been. White women later benefitted from Title IX legislation in 1972 in higher education while for my family finishing high school was equivalent to getting a PhD without any professors favoristism in the committee.
White women were given affirmative action 7 years ahead of Mexican Americans yet who was more segregated and doing the low paying jobs. Because without doubt no affirmative action ever came down my road or ever saw White barrios akin to the Lennox's of the world. As a matter of fact the current data reveals the success of Title 9, more White women are earning PhDs than White males. Why even compare to Mexican American males? It's noncomparable.
Yet the irony of this discovery, is that White women, and women in general still choice who to have sex with, marry and now they have the money which amounts as a type of triple societal affirmative action because as females have stated, their teachers always graded them easier or the best quote I liked was this, "We never get our hearts broken". The arrogance.
Next time you think women are persecuted just think that White women were given racial cover while Mexican Americans, a minority by conquest was excluded even when their laws proved dejure discrimination. Something is wrong with this legal animal.
