talk.politics.misc

Ok, I have to step in here, as a MEXICAN person (not Latino, not
Hispanic, Not Spaniard).

"Corky" Gonzales didn't start the Chicano Movement.
A guy named Raul Ruiz did, and he's still alive in LA.
He gets no credit, but he was the organizer and articulator.

The "Yo Soy Joaquin" poem is ignorant foolishness.
It uses the "mestizo" racist caste system as its starting point,
it uses "raza" invented by Jose Vasconcellos in Spain,
it uses Spaniard-centric, Eurocentric definitions of everything.

Notice how no one ever says "I'm an Hispanic Indian"?

These terms are also false, Eurocetric, and loaded with racism against
the Indigenous MAJORITY of our ancestry.

Fuck Spaniards. The few drops of Spanish blood are from rape,
and as such are merely a racial scar, a racial mutilation on our
Indigenous stock.

Nothing more than a scar.


Ask the Minutemen on the border if they are looking for White
Spaniards or BROWN Mexicans...they are not confused at all.




On Aug 24, 1:16 pm, American Patriot wrote:
> One is Spanish and the other is Indian and yet their lives
> areintricately interwoven:
>
> In his epic poem, "I am Joaquin",the poet, and political activist
> Rodolfo Corky Gonzalez reveals thehuman struggle that comes from
> ourMestizo heritage.
>
> We are both "theVictor and the Vanquished, master and slave" the poet
> says. Myresearch led me to explore one of those complexities: the
> story of theTwo Antonio Gurul=E9s
>
> in my own family.
>
> This is the story of two men with the identical name of Antonio
> Gurul=E9, who lived in the same area and the same time frame.
>
> One Antonio is from the Valdez family,on my great grandmother
> SoledadValdez's side, while the other is fromthe Sanchez family, on my
> greatgrandfather Santiago Sanchez's side.
>
> The one distinctive characteristic between these two men is that one
> was the master and the other the servant.
>
> These two different Antonio Gurul=E9s are from two different ancestral
> lines yet both ended up in the same Sanchez family of Bernalillo.
>
> One is Spanish and theother is Indian and yet their lives are
> intricately interwoven
>
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