The Real Hate in Arizona

In recent weeks, the liberal media has tarred and feathered the good people of Arizona before the eyes of the world. The United Nations has launched an official investigation. Cities like Los Angeles, CA, Richmond, VA and Columbus, OH have announced boycotts of the state. Liberal columnists have wailed about how the new law (which explicitly bans racial profiling) will result in racial profiling. President Obama and House Democrats have ganged up on Arizona with President Calderon of Mexico.

A torrent of abuse against Arizona has streamed from the Left. We are told the new law is motivated by "white racial anxiety," racism, bigotry, and plain old fashioned hatred of Latinos. In the midst of all this, Arizona passed another law banning ethnic studies on the grounds that these courses were being abused to encourage racial chauvinism and intolerance. This law has been criticized from the same quarters. In a scaremongering tone, The Huffington Post announced that "Teachers With Accents Can No Longer Teach English."

Meanwhile, Accuracy in Academia investigated these "ethnic studies" courses and uncovered some pretty damaging material. In the high schools of Tuscon, Arizona, a book by Paulo Freire (a Brazilian Marxist) called Pedagogy of the Oppressed is required reading in "Raza Studies" (i.e., Race Studies), otherwise known as "Mexican-American courses." Another favorite is Occupied America by Rodolfo Acuna who is a professor of Chicano Studies at California State University in Northridge.

Here's a choice quote from Occupied America. It gives the reader an idea of the sort of material Hispanic students are being exposed to in Arizona public schools:

"We are fed up. We are going to move to do away with the injustice to the Chicano and if the 'gringo' doesn't get out of our way, we will stampede over him."

"Gutierrez attacked the gringo establishment angrily at a press conference and called upon Chicanos to "Kill the gringo,' which meant to end white control over Mexicans."

Kill the gringo! Stampede over him! Rise up and overthrow the White oppressor in a bloody Communist insurrection! Hmm ... I wonder why Jan Brewer, the Governor of Arizona, felt hateful, racist, and incendiary material like that ought not to be subsidized by the 'gringo' taxpayers.

These woeful tales of oppression and exploitation are laughable. Illegal aliens who literally break into America and demand special privileges under the law are oppressed? If so, they sought out "oppression" by coming here. That's like a random stranger breaking into my house in the middle of the night and demanding amnesty (the lawful right to reside on my property) as a reward for his crime. It says a lot about the state of America that we are even having this silly debate.

Occupied America includes a map of Mexico in 1821 which includes the American Southwest. The story of how Mexico lost the region in a war with the Polk administration is recounted from an ethnic chauvinist perspective. From 1821 until 1848, a mere 27 years, the American Southwest was under Mexican sovereignty. From 1848 until 2010, 162 years, the Southwest has belonged to the United States.

The people of Arizona are under no obligation to subsidize Marxist pedagogues determined to incite violence and racial hatred against them and their descendants. I can't help but wonder why the Far Left groups who are ostensibly committed to fighting "racism" are so quiet about government sponsored racial hatred in American public schools.

In the Southwest, the proper term for “gringo” is Anglo.

Anglos and Mexicans (many of whose families have been in the state for decades or centuries, or are at least legal immigrants) make up the people and culture of Arizona. They like the same foods, love the landscape, the history, the humor, and the laid-back lifestyle, and usually speak English with a few Spanish or Spanish-derived words. Some of them intermarry. They are fiercely loyal to the United States of America and to Arizona, and tend to be Christian and socially conservative.

Illegal immigrants, criminal traffickers in drugs and people, and the “Aztlan” crowd don’t belong in Arizona or any other Southwestern state. They should get the heck out and stay the heck out!!!! The same goes doubly for muslims, and for politicians who exploit the illegal immigration issue or use Arizona as a scapegoat with their bigoted comments about Arizona’s “backwardness” and “racism”.

If anyone wants to develop plans to make Mexico a good country to live in (which it should be—it is a resource-rich country), I’m all ears. But if they’re talking Amnesty, continued unlimited Third World immigration, or Reconquista, I’m not interested!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7xedmvJTzk&feature=related

“The True History of the Southwest,” by Matthew Bracken

The fallacies surrounding the history of the Southwest are staggering, chief among them the “Aztlan” fairy tales. What is the truth? How did the Spanish Europeans conquer the Southwest? The “conquistadores” (that means “conquerors”) did it with the lance, and the lash.

For example, in 1541 Coronado entered present-day New Mexico (which included present-day Arizona during the Spanish era) searching for the “lost cities of gold.” One of his first actions upon meeting the natives was to burn hundreds of them alive in their dwellings, for not handing over suspected horse thieves. That is how Spain conquered the natives of the present US Southwest—not with hugs and kisses. It was certainly no love-fest between long-lost brown-skinned soul-mates, as it is often portrayed today by the delusional Aztlaners, who spin the “new bronze race of Mestizos” toro-mierda fable.

By 1821, Mexico City was strong enough to overthrow the even more decrepit and ineffectual Spanish colonial rule. However, the distant provinces of the current U.S. Southwest were far beyond the reach of the authority of the independent but strife-torn new government in Mexico City. These distant northern provinces received neither military protection nor needed levels of trade from the south. Under Spanish colonial rule, trade with the USA was forbidden, but at least Spain provided trade and Army protection from hostile Indians. Under Mexican abandonment and neglect, the Southwest received neither trade nor protection from Mexico City.

For example, Comanches and Apaches ran rampant in the 1830s in the power vacuum created by Mexican neglect, burning scores of major ranches that had been active for hundreds of years and massacring their inhabitants. Mexico City could neither defend nor keep the allegiance of its nominal subjects in these regions. Nor did it provide needed levels of trade to sustain the prior Spanish colonial era standard of living. Mexican governmental influence atrophied, withered and died at the same time that American pathfinders were opening up new routes into the region.

Increasingly, a growing United States of America was making inroads into the Southwest, via ships into California, and via wagon trains of trade goods over the Santa Fe Trail from St. Louis. The standard of living of the Spanish inhabitants of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas subsequently increased enormously, which is why they did not support Mexico City in the 1846-48 war. In fact, the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Southwest never considered themselves “Mexicans” at all, ever. They went, in their own eyes, from Spanish directly to American. To this very day, if you want a punch in the nose, just call an Hispanic native of New Mexico a “Mexican.”

So how long did Mexico City have even nominal jurisdiction (in their eyes) over the American Southwest? For only 25 years, during which they had no effective control, and the area slipped backwards by every measure until the arrival of the Americans. The Spanish inhabitants of the Southwest never transferred their loyalty to Mexico City, because all they received from the chaotic Mexican government was misrule, neglect, and unchecked Indian raids.

Since then, how long has the area been under firm American control? For 150 continuous years, during which time the former Spanish inhabitants of the region, now American citizens, have prospered beyond the wildest dreams of the Mexicans still stuck in Mexico. To compare the infrastructure, roads, schools, hospitals etc. of the two regions is to understand the truth. The Mexican government has been mired in endemic graft, corruption, nepotism and chaos from the very start until today. The ordinary Mexican peons have been trampled and abused, while only the super-rich elites have thrived. This is why millions of Mexicans want to escape from Mexico today, to enjoy the benefits of living in America that they can never hope to obtain in Mexico.

And because today Mexico is a corrupt third-world pest-hole (despite having more millionaires and billionaires than Great Britain), we are supposed to let any number of Mexicans from Chiapas, Michoacan or Yucatan march into the American Southwest, and make some “historical claim” of a right to live there?

From where does this absurd idea spring?

At what point in history did Indians and Mestizos from Zacatecas or Durango stake a claim on the American Southwest? Neither they nor their ancestors ever lived for one single day in the American Southwest. The Spanish living in the Southwest in 1846 stayed there, and became Americans by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. There were no Spanish inhabitants of the Southwest who were marched to the border and driven into Mexico. It didn’t happen. The Spanish in the Southwest welcomed American citizenship, which brought stability, protection from Indian raids, and a vast increase in their standard of living with the increase in trade with America.

In summary, no current inhabitants of Mexico have a claim on even one single inch of the American Southwest. Not one single citizen of Mexico is sneaking into the United States to reclaim property their ancestors were deprived of. Not one. They are criminal invaders and colonizers, pure and simple.

It’s time Americans learned the true history, as a counter to the currently prevalent “Aztlan” fairy tales put out by “La Raza” (The Race), “MEChA” (the Student Movement for Aztlan) and other radical anti-American groups.

Mexico never had a compelling claim to the Southwest. In the 27 years the region was under Mexican rule, Mexico City exercised little control over the area. Local Indian tribes like the Comanches and Pueblo Indians were the true authorities. Few Mexicans lived in Alta California and the Southwest. This is especially true of the Indians and mestizos from Central and Southern Mexico who are predominant among the immigrants who come from that country and make the usual race based claims.

Everyone ought to read this carefully, then read it some more. Read the history of the old Spanish missions and out posts throughout Texas and the SW and brush up on the Santa Fe Trail. Mexico ignored them, had little trade with them and left them survive by their wits. The Texan settlers and Missouri traders were welcomed with open arms and a once impoverished area began to prosper....and have law and order. Santa Ana didn't take on the banditos and Indians, he went after the settlers. We all remember the Alamo but Remember San Jacinto and the Battle of Monterrey!

Arizona's law is about Mexico's past of banditry, chaos and neglect in it's northern provinces; Pancho Villa and the Commacheros then and the drug cartels today. It's not an export we need see again.

La cuestión es embarazadas; ¿Por qué los mexicanos no quieren vivir en México?

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