"The Next Big Thing"
I was invited by Andrea Hernandez Holm.
What is the working title of the book?
If Jesus Could Not Save Himself, How Would He Save Me?
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Could-Save-Himself-Would/dp/0761858830/ref=la_B001JS8OK0_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1361382975&sr=1-7
Where did the idea come from for the book?
I had previously written other books on Mexican American issues but the story that lingered was my experience of having attended an Assembly of God Church as a teenager and I wanted to explore that.
What genre does your book fall under?
Mexican American Studies, Religious Studies, American Studies
What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
Have No Ideal, Don’t Know Any Teenage Mexican American actors and they would have to be tall, skinny, black hair Apache looking because that’s part of the story line.
What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
Attending a Reagan Revolution Anglo Protestant Church as a brown person.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
Two months.
Who or what inspired you to write this book?
I was inspired about to write about this from my grandmother Alberta in Baja California who was a 7th Day Adventist and would spend my summers with her and Ken Hillman Sr. who was the person that would invite me to the church and became my adopted father because we developed a good friendship and burying him at age 17 due to colon cancer was very painful but I've never forgotten him. I wanted to honor both of them.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
The description of the sermons on devil music and against Darwinism.
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
My book was published by Rowman and Littlefield in Lanham, Maryland. They had published four other books of mine.
Please include the names of at least four authors you have invited to participate.
Oscar Barajas- Columnist-News Taco
David Ordaz- Cartoonist
Rodrigo Valles-
Hugo Moreno-
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Backwards
Two weeks ago, East Los Angeles College hired a Salvadorian immigrant named M. Martinez as its new president and had previously had a 15 year terror reign by a white man named Ernest Moreno. In both instances, they both had identifiers that could be labeled Mexican Americans because in the eyes of White people an Spanish surnames makes everybody a latino which is synonomous with being Mexican American because afterall they have the same names. In both instances, these two hires were an affront and a slap to Mexican Americans especially those who have been prepared to or aspired to be a college president.
Mexican Americans are defined as born in the US and two parents of Mexican heritage, or having three grandparents of Mexican American heritage, being born in El Salvador and from a mother who was German does not make one Mexican American yet the LACCD board then and now have hired people that seem latino but as just demonstrated they were not. Even if the White person has a Mexican American father or mother that does not make them one for the simple reason of coming from two Mexican parents is not the same as having only woman parent, yes its racial, cultural and the mixed Whites know that. Whites with a Mexican American parent can morph or hide as a White person and they know that which they do. Take the case in point of baseball's Ted Williams who was born in San Diego to a Mexican American mother and who according to a biography learned baseball from his uncle Salvador in Santa Barbara. Yet he hid that and could because as racial mixing indicates, the offspring with Whites, Blacks or Asians look like them even if they have a Moreno, Venegas or Camacho last name. They can hide racially while those of us with two Mexican parents cannot and we pay the consequences of that. Add to it the White mentally that arises from that because I don't see no White Mexican leading any charge to defend the rest of us. Ted Williams forever hid he was Mexican American and so did Mit Romney and they could. So my conclusion is that they are White and I'm not talking about strangers even family members in my family from nephews to cousins children and I even married one Dutch with a Mexican American mother but looks Dutch, really Dutch. But by reproducing with me there is an attempt of saving that Mexican American Apache blood because if she had married a White guy none of the offspring would be Mexican American as happened with a second cousin. He married a White female, has two females and honestly they are not Mexican anymore but having one Mexican grandmother is not the same as three. They are not by blood or names so endless they say they are this look based society will not judge them that way.
And the proof here is not my analysis but the testimony of people like E. Moreno who would say he was German and not Chicano which meant Mexican American and he said it proudly to distinguish himself from the brown people because he had blue eyes. The White institutions maintained White control by hiring a White person that they belief he could morph and it worked especially because they counted him as an example of an affirmative action when it was not. It was a regressive action and they got away with it under the one drop Black blood but those legal views don't apply to Mexican Americans. And he did alot of damage to Mexican Americans as a whole.
Now they have hired a Salvadorian immigrant as its new president without taking into consideration how contentious the relationship exists between both communities and in my eyes they have learned the anti Mexican rhetoric from mainstream culture much like Italians have learned their bigotry about Blacks in New York. The philosophy of "they're all the same" here is in full force and it just goes to show how Mexican Americans get no respect and are not given the opportunities to excell. I have the same credentials as M. Martinez plus a second Master's from UCLA where we were both in the same Urban Planning program. That same degree has gotten him the presidency while my same degree plus second Latin American Studies has only gotten me unemployment. Forget about the fact I have written 7 books and have 20 years of teaching somehow a person born in Central America is more knowledgeable from English speaking to American culture is preposterous and disrespectful. I too had applied for the position and my same credentials only got me a rejection letter but on the second round of hire of which he was asked to apply got him hired. They should just say don't apply and really why apply when the doors have been closed and they place people who supposedly look Mexican American but are not.
All this proves that in reality the post affirmative action era has resulted in the backward era and the losers are Mexican Americans but afterall whose really given a damn about us. I don't think we even give a damn about us.
Mexican Americans are defined as born in the US and two parents of Mexican heritage, or having three grandparents of Mexican American heritage, being born in El Salvador and from a mother who was German does not make one Mexican American yet the LACCD board then and now have hired people that seem latino but as just demonstrated they were not. Even if the White person has a Mexican American father or mother that does not make them one for the simple reason of coming from two Mexican parents is not the same as having only woman parent, yes its racial, cultural and the mixed Whites know that. Whites with a Mexican American parent can morph or hide as a White person and they know that which they do. Take the case in point of baseball's Ted Williams who was born in San Diego to a Mexican American mother and who according to a biography learned baseball from his uncle Salvador in Santa Barbara. Yet he hid that and could because as racial mixing indicates, the offspring with Whites, Blacks or Asians look like them even if they have a Moreno, Venegas or Camacho last name. They can hide racially while those of us with two Mexican parents cannot and we pay the consequences of that. Add to it the White mentally that arises from that because I don't see no White Mexican leading any charge to defend the rest of us. Ted Williams forever hid he was Mexican American and so did Mit Romney and they could. So my conclusion is that they are White and I'm not talking about strangers even family members in my family from nephews to cousins children and I even married one Dutch with a Mexican American mother but looks Dutch, really Dutch. But by reproducing with me there is an attempt of saving that Mexican American Apache blood because if she had married a White guy none of the offspring would be Mexican American as happened with a second cousin. He married a White female, has two females and honestly they are not Mexican anymore but having one Mexican grandmother is not the same as three. They are not by blood or names so endless they say they are this look based society will not judge them that way.
And the proof here is not my analysis but the testimony of people like E. Moreno who would say he was German and not Chicano which meant Mexican American and he said it proudly to distinguish himself from the brown people because he had blue eyes. The White institutions maintained White control by hiring a White person that they belief he could morph and it worked especially because they counted him as an example of an affirmative action when it was not. It was a regressive action and they got away with it under the one drop Black blood but those legal views don't apply to Mexican Americans. And he did alot of damage to Mexican Americans as a whole.
Now they have hired a Salvadorian immigrant as its new president without taking into consideration how contentious the relationship exists between both communities and in my eyes they have learned the anti Mexican rhetoric from mainstream culture much like Italians have learned their bigotry about Blacks in New York. The philosophy of "they're all the same" here is in full force and it just goes to show how Mexican Americans get no respect and are not given the opportunities to excell. I have the same credentials as M. Martinez plus a second Master's from UCLA where we were both in the same Urban Planning program. That same degree has gotten him the presidency while my same degree plus second Latin American Studies has only gotten me unemployment. Forget about the fact I have written 7 books and have 20 years of teaching somehow a person born in Central America is more knowledgeable from English speaking to American culture is preposterous and disrespectful. I too had applied for the position and my same credentials only got me a rejection letter but on the second round of hire of which he was asked to apply got him hired. They should just say don't apply and really why apply when the doors have been closed and they place people who supposedly look Mexican American but are not.
All this proves that in reality the post affirmative action era has resulted in the backward era and the losers are Mexican Americans but afterall whose really given a damn about us. I don't think we even give a damn about us.
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