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Hispanic activist wants Chicano studies purged (New Mexico)
The Albuquerque Journal ^ | July 26, 2020 | Russell Contreras /AP

Posted on 07/26/2020 9:29:52 PM PDT by CedarDave

A New Mexico Hispanic leader upset about the removal of Spanish conquistador monuments is pushing for the state to end its support for Chicano and Native American studies.

In a letter to University of New Mexico President Garnett Stokes, New Mexico League of United Latin American Citizens Executive Director Ralph Arellanes wrote that the state’s largest university should dismantle both programs because they teach Latino students “self-hate” about their Spanish heritage.

Arellanes, who signed that letter in his role as New Mexico LULAC executive director and chair of the Hispano Roundtable of New Mexico, said he has collected stories of Hispanic students “leaving classrooms crying” after being told by professors that Spanish conquistadors participated in genocide against Indigenous populations.

“The Hispano Roundtable of New Mexico, New Mexico LULAC and our many expert historians in New Mexico request a meeting with you to discuss our concerns,” Arellanes wrote. “We will be calling for the removal of these courses and programs that are teaching our New Mexico students this kind of hate and complete propaganda.”

“It’s incredulous,” Irene Vásquez, the director of the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department, said. “This is not a serious criticism. But we must be doing something right, because we are growing.” According to university numbers, enrollment in Chicano studies classes on campus has jumped from 96 in 2011 to 707 last fall.

UNM spokeswoman Cinnamon Blair said the school supports an environment of free and open inquiry and academic freedom for faculty and students.

“If we ignore pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial history and if we reject what careful peer-reviewed historical research tells us about the past, we abandon our opportunity to build better communities in the present,” Blair said in a statement.

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TOPICS: Education; History; Society
KEYWORDS: academicbias; cancelculture; endwhiteshaming; garnettstokes; hispanics; lulac; newmexico; ralpharellanes; revisionisthistory; uofnewmexico
The truth is the Spanish came and conquered the pueblos, the pueblos revolted and expelled the Spanish who then returned and reconquered the pueblos. Later, the Anglo's arrived and many Hispanics lost their Spanish land grants and other land due to inability to pay taxes or outright fraud. New Mexico Anglo population is about 47 percent; the remaining 53% is a mixture of Hispanics and Native-Americans.
1 posted on 07/26/2020 9:29:52 PM PDT by CedarDave
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2 posted on 07/26/2020 9:31:13 PM PDT by CedarDave (Public schools are nothing more than government-run radical propaganda indoctrination centers.)
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To: CedarDave

Personally, I’m a newcomer - I’ve only been here since 1978. The first wave of Spanish explorers arrived in the mid-1500’s and settlers founded Santa Fe shortly after 1600.


3 posted on 07/26/2020 9:34:52 PM PDT by CedarDave (Public schools are nothing more than government-run radical propaganda indoctrination centers.)
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To: CedarDave

I don’t like generalizing, who does, but the question occurs...how are Hispanics generally feeling about all the riots etc? I have a feeling they’re not fans of the madness.


4 posted on 07/26/2020 9:40:07 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: toddausauras

Remember, Hispanics are not all one group. The traditionals whose family record goes back centuries are well established in small businesses - the initial closure by Dem Lujan Grisham caused many to have financial problems. More recent immigrants (legal) have established restaurants that were allowed to reopen in June and Lujan Grisham closed them again at the beginning of this month. There are a lot of PO’d people of all cultures right now and a lot of them are going to vote against the Dem radical progressives in November.


5 posted on 07/26/2020 9:47:19 PM PDT by CedarDave (Public schools are nothing more than government-run radical propaganda indoctrination centers.)
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To: CedarDave

isn’t he one of the marx brothers?


6 posted on 07/26/2020 9:49:40 PM PDT by dp0622 (Trump!!)
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To: CedarDave

Cannot criticize the Cortez woman’s ancestors.


7 posted on 07/26/2020 9:57:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: CedarDave

““It’s incredulous,”

No, it’s not. It may be incredible, but not incredulous.


8 posted on 07/26/2020 10:11:32 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: CedarDave

Bkmk
Thanks


9 posted on 07/26/2020 10:13:00 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

I’m incredulous that any of these people hold faculty positions in a university. :)


10 posted on 07/26/2020 10:14:31 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: CedarDave

LuLac is a nasty race baiting organization


11 posted on 07/27/2020 1:42:18 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: CedarDave

I thought that after the conquistadors some Spanish settlers came into New Mexico. I think there are some people who are directly descended from them who speak 17th century Spanish and resent being considered Mexicans.


12 posted on 07/27/2020 5:55:02 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: CedarDave
“It’s incredulous,” Irene Vásquez, the director of the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department, said.

I do think that word means what she thinks it means.

13 posted on 07/27/2020 6:27:38 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: CedarDave

Well, at least one “ethnic studies” program in the country was not hiding all the truth. That kind of surprises me, that the “ethnic studies” academics let that much truth in.


14 posted on 07/27/2020 7:32:32 AM PDT by Wuli
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