Professor Predicts 'Hispanic Homeland'

Voice of Aztlan ^ | Year 2000 | AP (supposedly)

[risk]

Professor Predicts 'Hispanic Homeland'

By The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the Southwest and several northern states of Mexico.

Charles Truxillo suggests the “Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, is “an inevitability.”

He envisions it encompassing all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, plus the northern tier of Mexican states: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.

Along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border “there is a growing fusion, a reviving of connections,” Truxillo said. “Southwest Chicanos and Norteño Mexicanos are becoming one people again.”

Truxillo, 47, has said the new country should be brought into being “by any means necessary,” but recently said it was unlikely to be formed by civil war. Instead, its creation will be accomplished by the electoral pressure of the future majority Hispanic population in the region, he said.

Other UNM professors were skeptical

Felipe Gonzáles, director of UNM's Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, said there's a “certain homeland undercurrent” among New Mexico Hispanics who believe land was stolen and promises broken. But, he said, a new nation would need much more widespread support.

“Educated elites are going to have to pick up on this idea and run with it and use it as a point of confrontation if it is to succeed,” Gonzáles said.

Truxillo contends states have the right to secede under the Articles of Confederation of 1777, in which states retained “sovereignty, freedom and independence.” He contends the Articles were not superseded in that regard by the U.S. Constitution and that although the Civil War settled the question militarily, it was never resolved by courts.

History Professor Daniel Feller disagreed

“The Constitution does supersede the Articles of Confederation,” Feller said. “It takes no notice of the articles and is not presented as bearing any relation to them. The Constitution does not declare, recognize or in any way acknowledge the right to secede.”

And, he noted, the full title was “Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.”

The U.S. Supreme Court said in 1869 the union was indestructible, political science Professor Joseph Stewart said.

He also said he was “somewhat skeptical in the sense of minority politics” about a possible Republic of the North. He said Americans of Mexican descent have moved all over the United States and that “I don't see that Hispanic population becoming more distinct but in fact becoming less distinct.”

Juan José Peña, Hispanic activist and vice chairman of the Hispanic Roundtable, said there's not enough political consciousness among Mexican Americans to form a separate nation.

“Right now, there's no movement capable of undertaking it,” he said.

Truxillo, who teaches at UNM's Chicano Studies Program on a yearly contract, believes it's his job to help develop a “cadre of intellectuals” to think about how it can become a reality.

Native-born American Hispanics feel like strangers in their own land, he said

“We remain subordinated,” he said. “We have a negative image of our own culture, created by the media. Self-loathing is a terrible form of oppression. The long history of oppression and subordination has to end.”

Truxillo said Hispanics who have achieved positions of power or otherwise are “enjoying the benefits of assimilation” are most likely to oppose a new nation.

“There will be the negative reaction, the tortured response of someone who thinks, 'Give me a break. I just want to go to Wal-Mart.' But the idea will seep into their consciousness, and cause an internal crisis, a pain of conscience, an internal dialogue as they ask themselves: 'Who am I in this system?”'

© 2000 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Dr. Charles Truxillo is a native of New Mexico. He attended public schools in Albuquerque and Belen. Dr. Truxillo received his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico, majoring in Latin American, Borderlands, and Asian History. Dr. Truxillo also attended St. Michael's Catholic seminary in California. Later, he worked as an instructor in the University College of UNM, serving as director of the University College's Social Science program from 1988 to 1990. Throughout this period Dr. Truxillo traveled extensively in Mexico, Central America, Spain, and Western Europe. Between 1992 and 1997, he was an Assistant Professor of History at New Mexico Highlands University. While at NMHI, he annually organized student tours to Mexico and sponsored student and faculty forums and symposiums.

[risk]

From Hannity & Colmes:

HANNITY: You're making the case, professor, that it doesn't go back based on that. But, you know, look, truth be told, if we apply the standards, for example, that some would want to apply to Israel, I mean, America would turn over land to Mexico from California, New Mexico, and Arizona and Texas. There's some truth in that. But how far back do you want to go? Where does it end?

TRUXILLO: In fact, Israel is a good example because in many ways, the Chicano people are like the Palestinians. They're an occupied people in the southwest.

Your tax dollars at work

[Skywalk]

Charles Truxillo suggests the “Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, is “an inevitability.”

No, it f***in' ain't! I'll be damned if I'm alive to see it, or Aztlaners blowing up civilians to get their "homeland."

They have one, it's called Central America.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

I'm with you, dude. I'll be d@mned if I see it in my lifetime.

Don't worry, when the time comes, sides will fall out on the right lines in this country. And then it'll just come down to what it has to come down to.

[CurlyDave]

Truxillo, who teaches at UNM's Chicano Studies Program on a yearly contract, believes it's his job to help develop a ?cadre of intellectuals? to think about how it can become a reality.

I think it is now time to:

1. Terminate Mr. Truxillo's contract, and

2. Charge Mr. Truxillo with treason.

[noutopia]

Over my dead body!!!

[MCH]

How utterly ridiculous. A hispanic majority is just going to "vote themselves" right out of the US. This didn't even work for white folks back in 1860. What makes this moron think it will work sometime in the next 100 years. What a joke.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

This will continue until we wise up in large numbers and unelect our politicians by holding their feet to the candle. They absolutely ingore us on this issue. Enough is enough.

[tbird5]

Ya, right. Keep dreaming Truxillo.

[Dan from Michigan]

Chicano people are like the Palestinians. They're an occupied people in the southwest.

If you take their tactics and blow up civillians, I'll take my truck and run yer ass over.

[Mr. Mojo]

Chicano Studies Program

About a decade ago at UCLA I witnessed a bunch of Latinos (including one professor) on a hunger strike because Latino Studies didn't have its own department ....it was merely a major. They really took it a long way, and the prof almost died. Result? UCLA caved in and a new dept was born: Latino/a Studies. But for some reason they had to get rid of another dept if they were to do this, and the Astronomy dept got the axe.

Some priorities.

[risk]

I just want to make it clear that I believe people of Latino origins who are legitimate immigrants are fine people. Illegal immigration, hyper-immigration (how many millions in the last decade?), and a lack of will to enforce our fine laws is what has me annoyed.

And now Aztlan. America for Americans!

[RLK]

A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the Southwest and several northern states of Mexico.

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I predict it also, the acquisition to be funded by the U. S. system of social services. The idea apparently gives Bush orgasms.

[martin_fierro]

Mexico's tourism slogan. Really.

[Pubbie]

What this idiot forgets is that.... BLACKS AND ASIANS AREN'T MEXICANS YOU MORON!

Why the hell would blacks and Asians go along with free-loading mexican "Immigrants" and enlarge that cesspool of corruption, stupidity, and illiteracy known today as "Mexico".

As long as over 80% of the US population is non-Hispanic, there will be no "Aztlan".

[noutopia]

Name a California school that is not Liberal.

[martin_fierro]

Let's assume that this Aztlan silliness becomes a reality.

I wonder to what measures the "Aztlantans" will resort to "keep out illegal immigrants" then.

[Skywalk]

Yep.

And indeed blacks and Asians and whites would find common ground if there is an attempt by Mexicans to pull a Kosovo in the Southwest.

I wonder what the UN would say if we had to push a lot of ethnic Mexicans back from the US?

[Mr. Mojo]

I just want to make it clear that I believe people of Latino origins who are legitimate immigrants are fine people

Some are fine people (like my current girlfriend and her family), and some are definitely not. Just because people come her legitimately - legally - doesn't automatically make them fine people. Our jails are filled with legal immigrants Mexico. ....and illegals as well.

[RLK]

In fact, Israel is a good example because in many ways, the Chicano people are like the Palestinians. They're an occupied people in the southwest.

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The delusion that the area was ever Mexican is the result of claims made by Spaniard Hernando Cortez in the name of the king and queen of Spain, claiming most of what is now the Western United States without ever seeing it. The Cortez claims were not even recognized by Mexico who expelled spain ub about 1821.

[Varmint Al]

There are two Thomas Sowell quotes that are appropriate here:

• Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. -- Thomas Sowell
• "The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive." -- Thomas Sowell

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al