Elvira Arellano is an Aztlan activist who believes that “indigenous people” should be free to live anywhere in North America. That white Europeans are illegitimate occupiers of this continent
If “indigenous people” want this country back then they can have it so long as they get it back in the same condition it was when we started to improve it. They do not get it. The “country” they are talking about is just land. This country is not simply real estate. This COUNTRY is what many people have made it into with our system of government, our culture, our laws. So, if they want to compensate for the people who have died in wars, all the capital improvements and so forth then we can start to talk. All of this is why our piece of real estate is so much more appealing than those pieces of real estate that they fled. We’ll take our roads and everything else with us.