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.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Immigrant books in Chicano Studies Courses
I recently found out where UC Irvine was located at, next to some creek and on the edge of some rolling hills. Can't say I was really impressed, rather disappointed as I expected something like UCLA's architecture that made you believe you were seeing something ancient or at least well kept up.
Fortunately with a handicap pass as I now chauffuer a person with health issues, I was able to park closely to the bookstore and peaked at their Chicano Studies books and was I disappointed. Actually I began my disappointment in the Spanish section and realized those professors were using similar books I had to read back in the late 80's while at USC. No innovation in their book collection. I'm not sure I would pay big money again to read books about the Mexican Revolution or others from Spain. You would think there would be a better collection considering the population of generic Spanish speaking countries is quite high. I know their Spanish is all different but it seems much like the Chicano movement activists or artists who seem to be the same five people always competing. Here they were the same five books.
Then I moved to the Chicano Studies section and out of 10 authors, 8 were immigrant authors from Mexico. One was interesting about the Mexican American race formation while the other one was from my former boss Graciela Limon but still based on the immigrant Mexico. To be honest, I am tired about the immigrant Mexican infiltrating Mexican American Studies. Can't they tell there is a difference? Mexican Americans are born in the US, northern people. Immigrant Mexicans are not and maybe I would be sympathetic if they were border people from northern people because they would be in the terrain of the deserts but not these people who move from Zacatecas, Jalisco, Guerrero, Colima, Michoacan that are not even desert lands.
They act like they are the first ones here and no other Mexicans were present before they stepped foot on Mexican American realm. It's like if they show up to Mexicali on the Baja side and write their narrative as if nobody else was living there. They do bother me as they lament their immigrant narrative onto the rest of us. Why don't they write about their culture shock in Mexico of moving to a region they are not from even within Mexico?
It bothers me to see that the weak intellegentsia believe that the Chicano narrative is undocumented or foreign and for us born here, the word Chicano only referred to Mexican Americans and nobody else. What don't they understand that there is a difference between people born 1300 miles south to somebody born in California? We are not the same and neither are my children who are Apaches so far back that their descendents cannot be traced to anywhere other than the US. And if that is what is being taught I rather my children not learn that immigrant narrative which has nothing to do with them.
I left disgusted.
Fortunately with a handicap pass as I now chauffuer a person with health issues, I was able to park closely to the bookstore and peaked at their Chicano Studies books and was I disappointed. Actually I began my disappointment in the Spanish section and realized those professors were using similar books I had to read back in the late 80's while at USC. No innovation in their book collection. I'm not sure I would pay big money again to read books about the Mexican Revolution or others from Spain. You would think there would be a better collection considering the population of generic Spanish speaking countries is quite high. I know their Spanish is all different but it seems much like the Chicano movement activists or artists who seem to be the same five people always competing. Here they were the same five books.
Then I moved to the Chicano Studies section and out of 10 authors, 8 were immigrant authors from Mexico. One was interesting about the Mexican American race formation while the other one was from my former boss Graciela Limon but still based on the immigrant Mexico. To be honest, I am tired about the immigrant Mexican infiltrating Mexican American Studies. Can't they tell there is a difference? Mexican Americans are born in the US, northern people. Immigrant Mexicans are not and maybe I would be sympathetic if they were border people from northern people because they would be in the terrain of the deserts but not these people who move from Zacatecas, Jalisco, Guerrero, Colima, Michoacan that are not even desert lands.
They act like they are the first ones here and no other Mexicans were present before they stepped foot on Mexican American realm. It's like if they show up to Mexicali on the Baja side and write their narrative as if nobody else was living there. They do bother me as they lament their immigrant narrative onto the rest of us. Why don't they write about their culture shock in Mexico of moving to a region they are not from even within Mexico?
It bothers me to see that the weak intellegentsia believe that the Chicano narrative is undocumented or foreign and for us born here, the word Chicano only referred to Mexican Americans and nobody else. What don't they understand that there is a difference between people born 1300 miles south to somebody born in California? We are not the same and neither are my children who are Apaches so far back that their descendents cannot be traced to anywhere other than the US. And if that is what is being taught I rather my children not learn that immigrant narrative which has nothing to do with them.
I left disgusted.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Chorizo Moments and Death
http://www.amazon.com/Chorizo-Moments-and-Death-ebook/dp/B004K6MJRM/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1295666338&sr=1-4
My new ebook, "Chorizo Moments and Death".
My new ebook, "Chorizo Moments and Death".
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Epublishing on Nook and Kindle
http://productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?store=EBOOK&WRD=julian+camacho&page=index&prod=univ&choice=ebooks&query=Julian+Camacho&flag=False&ugrp=2
I have published 4 books on the Nook and the Kindle. Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com
Books that would have just sat but now they are in.
1)Repossession (Fiction)
2)My Lifeforce (Fiction)
3)Amexican: A Southern California Story
4)If Jesus Could Not Save Himself, How Would He Save Me?
They are up for purchase and I'm proud of them.
I have published 4 books on the Nook and the Kindle. Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com
Books that would have just sat but now they are in.
1)Repossession (Fiction)
2)My Lifeforce (Fiction)
3)Amexican: A Southern California Story
4)If Jesus Could Not Save Himself, How Would He Save Me?
They are up for purchase and I'm proud of them.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Last Comments of 2010
I am not a Christian but I'll take the holidays. So much has happened, well really nothing.
Last week some events happened that are worth mentioning, Don't Ask Dont Tell was repealed which is good, all who want to fight should be allowed to join. But it also got me thinking, they must have too many gays in the military to be pushing this or they must not have enough soldiers. Either way it passed and many consider this a progressive issue. Lets clarify this, this is not a progressive issue. It doesn't bring minorities out of poverty, it really helps White people who seem to be successful middle class which eliminates the progressive rule and it really helps both conservative or liberal Whites who seem to be beholden to this issue. It just seems Whites have too many gays and they do not seem to be hindered by that, especially the Republicans which counters their core values when there is a segment requesting extra rights for bodily acts.
A second place which has too many of a certain people, was UCLA and other colleges. As the vote was counted for the Dream Act I couldn't help but notice that there were too many undocumented students anxciously waiting for the vote. Life must not be that hard if a student is undocumented and their parents can afford to send them to UCLA. I am an American by birth and I could barely afford to attend UCLA in the early 1990's when many of these students were being born in their countries of origen. So how does a population that technically does not have legality have the money to pay cash when my mother, also an American citizen could not afford to pay for my schooling nor me when tuition was much less. Granted in the early 1990's there was a major recession and I remember because I couldn't find employment as a young many in my early 20's and even with a USC degree in hand it did not help. Yet at the highest cost of tuition these undocumented students can.
I opposed the Dream Act because non citizens should not be given access over US citizens of any color, especially when it comes to Mexican Americans. These undocumented students are doing what took me 4 generations to do which was to complete college but they do it as an immigrant population. They are not even first generation Americans and yet they get through. Because the undocumented students who come from Mexico south to Latin America, can easily morph as a Mexican American, they easily by permission of colleges trumph Mexican Americans and really push us out. How is this fair to those of us born here with the mental scar of being raised American and segregated?
I have to realize that the longer we are in the US, the more psychologically we are harmed were we learned to self doubt even as toddlers. Immigrants don't have that history because they believe this is the land of promise and it's not. Especially, when their undocumented parents are employed and our American parents struggle for employment. The immigrant thinks the opportunity is the same when it's not.
I saw the tears on many students but I didn't feel pity for them because who has pitied or given me that hand of help. I would even argue that I have lost out to those that were amnestied in 1986 because they write their woe is me story and the system seems to always have a place for them while I as a person born in this country find myself looking in. The people who voted against them were not bigots they just felt that citizens have to be considered first by not bringing in more foreigners as permanent people. Foreigners cannot throw the racist card when they are not even citizens of that nation and are employed. If the Whites in Congress were bigots they would enact laws that made it impossible to be hired like in France.
I hear the clamor that they were brought here as children but birth is the sacredity of citizenship and that is what makes one a legal entity defined by space. We all have to abide by the law, when we drive we are to have a driver's license, when we apply for a job the id and social security card, when we travel a passport. There is nothing absurd about this and why should one be compensated for irresponsibility of the parents, who overstayed their visit. Maybe ICE isn't as bad as made out to be.
People might be against my opinions but truth of the matter, those of us born in the US should have a right to our opinion and truth of the matter, I don't have any relationship to these people. We are both of entirely different nationalities, I don't have any legal or even racial connection so why would I be guilt into supporting a group of people I believe are a direct competition to me and my friends.
The Senate did right by rejecting the dream act because ultimately, the country belongs only to those born here and not foreigners who show up because they are greedy and that includes the Naturalized. Lets have a Dream Act for the unemployed Mexican American who truly needs it as the LA Times reported that immigrants have gained 1.2 million jobs while US born Mexican Americans have lost 600,000 jobs. Who really has it bad? I have lost friends over this issue but if you were to listen to this unselfishly all would comprehend the dire crisis.
Congress needs to act more to ensure that US citizens are educated and employed first and the home countries need to become responsible for their citzens because I as a non citizen cannot petition anything from Mexico or Ecuador. Even though my name is Julian Camacho, I am still a gringo and a foreigner in Mexico.
Last week some events happened that are worth mentioning, Don't Ask Dont Tell was repealed which is good, all who want to fight should be allowed to join. But it also got me thinking, they must have too many gays in the military to be pushing this or they must not have enough soldiers. Either way it passed and many consider this a progressive issue. Lets clarify this, this is not a progressive issue. It doesn't bring minorities out of poverty, it really helps White people who seem to be successful middle class which eliminates the progressive rule and it really helps both conservative or liberal Whites who seem to be beholden to this issue. It just seems Whites have too many gays and they do not seem to be hindered by that, especially the Republicans which counters their core values when there is a segment requesting extra rights for bodily acts.
A second place which has too many of a certain people, was UCLA and other colleges. As the vote was counted for the Dream Act I couldn't help but notice that there were too many undocumented students anxciously waiting for the vote. Life must not be that hard if a student is undocumented and their parents can afford to send them to UCLA. I am an American by birth and I could barely afford to attend UCLA in the early 1990's when many of these students were being born in their countries of origen. So how does a population that technically does not have legality have the money to pay cash when my mother, also an American citizen could not afford to pay for my schooling nor me when tuition was much less. Granted in the early 1990's there was a major recession and I remember because I couldn't find employment as a young many in my early 20's and even with a USC degree in hand it did not help. Yet at the highest cost of tuition these undocumented students can.
I opposed the Dream Act because non citizens should not be given access over US citizens of any color, especially when it comes to Mexican Americans. These undocumented students are doing what took me 4 generations to do which was to complete college but they do it as an immigrant population. They are not even first generation Americans and yet they get through. Because the undocumented students who come from Mexico south to Latin America, can easily morph as a Mexican American, they easily by permission of colleges trumph Mexican Americans and really push us out. How is this fair to those of us born here with the mental scar of being raised American and segregated?
I have to realize that the longer we are in the US, the more psychologically we are harmed were we learned to self doubt even as toddlers. Immigrants don't have that history because they believe this is the land of promise and it's not. Especially, when their undocumented parents are employed and our American parents struggle for employment. The immigrant thinks the opportunity is the same when it's not.
I saw the tears on many students but I didn't feel pity for them because who has pitied or given me that hand of help. I would even argue that I have lost out to those that were amnestied in 1986 because they write their woe is me story and the system seems to always have a place for them while I as a person born in this country find myself looking in. The people who voted against them were not bigots they just felt that citizens have to be considered first by not bringing in more foreigners as permanent people. Foreigners cannot throw the racist card when they are not even citizens of that nation and are employed. If the Whites in Congress were bigots they would enact laws that made it impossible to be hired like in France.
I hear the clamor that they were brought here as children but birth is the sacredity of citizenship and that is what makes one a legal entity defined by space. We all have to abide by the law, when we drive we are to have a driver's license, when we apply for a job the id and social security card, when we travel a passport. There is nothing absurd about this and why should one be compensated for irresponsibility of the parents, who overstayed their visit. Maybe ICE isn't as bad as made out to be.
People might be against my opinions but truth of the matter, those of us born in the US should have a right to our opinion and truth of the matter, I don't have any relationship to these people. We are both of entirely different nationalities, I don't have any legal or even racial connection so why would I be guilt into supporting a group of people I believe are a direct competition to me and my friends.
The Senate did right by rejecting the dream act because ultimately, the country belongs only to those born here and not foreigners who show up because they are greedy and that includes the Naturalized. Lets have a Dream Act for the unemployed Mexican American who truly needs it as the LA Times reported that immigrants have gained 1.2 million jobs while US born Mexican Americans have lost 600,000 jobs. Who really has it bad? I have lost friends over this issue but if you were to listen to this unselfishly all would comprehend the dire crisis.
Congress needs to act more to ensure that US citizens are educated and employed first and the home countries need to become responsible for their citzens because I as a non citizen cannot petition anything from Mexico or Ecuador. Even though my name is Julian Camacho, I am still a gringo and a foreigner in Mexico.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Chalino Review & Trixie
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.
http://www.csulb.edu/misc/inside/?p=15885
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.
http://www.csulb.edu/misc/inside/?p=15885
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Writing
I should write more but I'm lazy just as readers are even more lazy. I should then try to be like other Mexican American writers who believe they are spiritual writers or zen zies after a life of danger and desmadre. I'm not quite sure I can believe somebody whose been engaged in a former life of crime for the mentality never stops.
My father in law use to state he couldn't become a born again Christian because everybody attempting to convert him were all losers, he would state they were former drug addicts, criminals, and engaged in every sin possible to now preach to him the virtues of being saved. I feel the same way.
I'm not going to listen to no former criminal turned preacher, come to think about it, I wouldn't even listen to God or his chosen son Jesus much less to someone who's been in jail for harm committed to somebody else. I grew up in Lennox and I was taught by my mother to know the difference. I didn't engage in danger to anybody else except for some emotional pain for ex girlfriends--but that is normal. We didn't like each other's personalities and wouldn't admit to it. Like they were all innocent.
I'll keep listening to my mother and my dogs versus some reformed criminal preaching spirituality. Right.
My father in law use to state he couldn't become a born again Christian because everybody attempting to convert him were all losers, he would state they were former drug addicts, criminals, and engaged in every sin possible to now preach to him the virtues of being saved. I feel the same way.
I'm not going to listen to no former criminal turned preacher, come to think about it, I wouldn't even listen to God or his chosen son Jesus much less to someone who's been in jail for harm committed to somebody else. I grew up in Lennox and I was taught by my mother to know the difference. I didn't engage in danger to anybody else except for some emotional pain for ex girlfriends--but that is normal. We didn't like each other's personalities and wouldn't admit to it. Like they were all innocent.
I'll keep listening to my mother and my dogs versus some reformed criminal preaching spirituality. Right.
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