As I age into my mid 40's I realize I hate ignorant people especially ignorant PhD's like most I have come across in my adulthood because all they do is press the play button of their professors. One in particular was a stupid White woman who was interviewing for a Chicano Studies position at CSULB which proves that the full time Chicano Studies faculty was just as stupid for interviewing a non Mexican American, but what do I expect from people who are not even Mexican Americans themselves.
She was referring to Mexican Americans as immigrants but last I recall, Mexican Americans dont exist in Mexico they would not be and then talked about new Oaxaca people in Baja California which she then referred that because a certain amount had moved in so now they could change the name of my people's land to Oaxacalifornia. That irritated me because it was a direct assault on those who had lived in Baja and were from Cucapah, Kumeyaay or other groups that were now part of the peninsula and the culture. So just because new people show up the identity of the place has to be changed to accomdodate them because they are so deserving. I was mad because my family history is being obliterated and never given an opportunity to be known but now because ugly people from 2000 miles away arrive they have to be catered to. And because some idiotic professor believes they can create new labels they now have carte blanche to do as they please. Lets call women men then and men women.
This is very similar to the definition of Mexican American or Chicano, I only use Mexican American, which somehow now includes Mexico born when it never did and others from Central America. And if we Mexican Americans speak up we are wrong when outsiders as I previously stated have no right to come and impose themselves on us. We didn't ask them to and we don't need them much less do we need so called White or Brown academicians creating false identities or changing the identities to suite their little box.
Call this a gripe, I don't care but don't profess to present an argument and ignore the other millions that live in that place because you believe these exotic subethnic Mexican migrants have to be showcased because they moved and moving is akin to some religious pilgrimmage. The natives of Baja didn't ask them to show up much less like Whites or Asians who want to turn the upper half of California into their homeland while they ignore those that have been living there the longest. This isn't a free for all to take. And as a person who believes space is identity the attempted swap is paramount to destroying my history all because academicians do not want to acknowledge a population existed prior and continue to live there.
Go to your home state and change that name not mine because when I was born in the Imperial Valley we were Mexican Americans only and not Latinos or anything else, well except that we were Apache too. I was born in Apacheria and I kind of like it that way, I don't need no more White woman ignorance.
I will be reading this and posting to youtube and am only two stories away from finishing my new book that has no title but does have 26 chapters. I will post more blogs sooner.
