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7 de Enero, 2007
The Haunted Land, Pt. VII
Categorized under Historia | Tags: borders, Capitalism, False History, historia, indigenous, Manifest Destiny, Mexicans, Mexico, nafta, Obrador, propaganda, resistance, satire, The Haunted Land, UFW, Victor Jara
| Mexicans are American Indians - It's the Border that is Illegal Will the Real Illegal Aliens Please Stand Up By Barry Carter
All one has to do is look at a pre-contact map of the North American continent to see that the US-Mexican border, is an artificial line, that bisected the territory of Indian people, such as the Ute-Aztecan. The Ute-Aztecan territory covers much of current day Mexico, Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada. Thus the border is illegal, not the Indians. The Indian peoples never approved this border. Thus American Indians as illegal aliens in America is as ridicules as someone coming into your house, taking your house at gunpoint and then getting an illegal court order barring you from entering your own house. It does not matter how many years pass it is your house. If you are the illegal alien in the house, what better defense than pointing the finger at the real owners as the illegal aliens, in order to hide your true status and theft. |
The brown people of Mexico have been on the North American continent for tens of thousands of years. They are American Indians indigenous to America and thus cannot be illegal aliens. One cannot be both indigenous and alien since these are opposites. Euro-Americans renamed them Hispanic, Latino, Mexican, Mestizo, Chicano for reasons of self-gain. By renaming them eventually people forget that they are Indigenous North American Indians. Once forgotten then the American land is free for the taking.| The mislabeling of an entire group of Indian people is no accident. It was/is a common ploy to steal land, wealth and power of the rightful inhabitants of America. In the Southeastern U.S. many Indians pass as light skin black people because for centuries they were forced to deny their Indian heritage or face death. The same is true of Indians in the Caribbean. The Taino Indians were supposed to be extinct, but when DNA testing was done, in Puerto Rico, over 90% of the population had significant American Indian DNA. The motivation of Euro-Americans was and is the possession, ownership and control of American “Indian” land. Europeans inflicted the greatest human holocaust in history in order to attain the land and wealth. This holocaust resulted in tens of millions of Indian deaths, extinction of entire nations, languages and cultures.
What we really have is an apartheid system on the North American continent. The system of apartheid started in the Americas in 1492. Initially millions of east coast Indians were killed to make lands free for Europeans. The remaining eastern Indians were supposedly forced out of the east as indicated with Andrew Jackson proclamation that there were no more Indians east of the Mississippi. In essence everything west of the Mississippi was a large Indian Reservation. As the Euro-Americans came west, the Indians west of the Mississippi, were forced onto apartheid “homeland” reservations or to the south. Eventually a line was drawn to the south (the U.S.-Mexican border) with the majority of American Indians barred south of the line. Euro-Americans argue that the delineating factor is that Euro-English conquered the lands north of the border, for the most part, and the Euro-Spanish conquered the lands to the south. This, however, is meaningless to the American Indians who were already here and thus are indigenous. What the illegal alien issue is really all about is threatening the Euro-American manifest destiny dream. We don’t call Lakota or Navajo or Apache illegal aliens today because their numbers were reduced so greatly that they have little power to threaten Euro-America. They are free to leave their reservations and come and go as they please. However, when they were a threat, to manifest destiny, it was illegal for them to leave the reservations and they were considered illegal aliens off the reservations. And this was true of Indians living east of the Mississippi. After Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of the 1830’s it was illegal for Indians to be east of the Mississippi and Indians were not only considered illegal aliens if they were found east of the Mississippi, they were found DEAD illegal aliens. Today the 100,000,000 Indians living south of the illegal border pose the only Indian threat to Euro-America’s vision of manifest destiny. And believe me the racist notion of manifest destiny is unconsciously still alive and kicking the majority of Euro-Americans heads. The mere notion that the America today is still Indian land is a foreign notion in most Euro-America’s heads. This is why most Euro-Americans are ignorant to the fact that Mexico is part North America. And this buried racial bias is behind the thinking that allows the Indians, in question, to so easily be classified as illegal aliens in their own homelands.
What’s really behind Euro-American fears and the illegal alien propaganda? Euro-Americans in the United States have the same fears as White people in South Africa before the apartheid wall fell. They fear being overrun by 100 million brown people. If the 100 million Indians are let off of the reservation Euro-Americans lose control of government, politics, business, etc. Their dreams of manifest destiny collapses and it becomes clear that American’s destiny has always been brown and the illusion of a “white” America is gone. Many Euro-Americans will refuse to accept the facts of history. They’ll get hung up on all kinds of details. They will argue, show us the Yaqui, Cahita, Tarahumara, Jumano, Seri, Coahuiltec, Karankawa, Tonkawa, Mixtec, Tarascan Indians since these are the people whose land was bisected by the border. However, the “Euro-recognition con-game and other specious arguments do not matter since there is no way to stop the 100,000,000 Indians from crossing the illegal border and thus no way to stop the re-browning of America. There are 100 million brown Indians that cannot be imprisoned on the Mexican reservation indefinitely. They are reclaiming the North American continent one person and one day at a time—American Indians crossing the illegal apartheid border. And there is nothing Euro-Americans can do about it. [...] |
It does not take a rocket scientist to simply look at Mexicans to know that they are American Indians. Demographics for Mexico show that 90% of the population is Indian. So why then does Euro-America see Mexicans as illegal aliens and not as American Indians? Because it conflicts with their self-interest and vision of manifest destiny or “greedifest destiny”. They feel that they have some god given right to American Indian land and seeing Mexicans as American Indians threatens this illusion.
When we really think about it Mexico is a very large Indian reservation. All Indian reservations are part of an American apartheid system created by Euro-Americans. The border between the US and Mexico is an apartheid border. It is a racist border created out of imperialism and the colonization of indigenous people. Euro-Americans have 100 million brown Indians isolated on a large reservation called Mexico in order to keep brown people separate and powerless and to maintain power in the hands of Euro-Americans. This is exactly what was done with South African apartheid with “homeland” reservations for brown people. Like South Africa, the brown people from the Mexican reservation are allowed to come in temporarily and do menial work, but must return to their reservations when the work is done. They both must have a pass to be off their reservation. It is all about control of indigenous brown people.
AS I SAID IN A RECENT COMMENT THREAD, the purpose of renaming Mexicans as "Hispanic" is to deny them their Indian status. The purpose of naming Mexican migrants as "Aliens" is grossly obvious. Could you possibly think of a nastier, more dehumanizing word? The purpose of framing those of Mexican descent as anything except what they are is done for very insidious and harmful purposes. As if some wall or ocean or moral boundary separates la tierra of "texas" from la tierra of "mexico" and has since the dawn of time. It truly requires some magical, self-interested and deluded thinking to come to the conclusions one must in order to feel justified about countless realities today such as NAFTA, border-walls, Incarceration of children, and "hunting me some aliens."
The recent history of Mexico, that of the last five hundred years, is the story of permanent confrontation between those attempting to direct the country toward the path of Western civilization and those, rooted in Mesoamerican ways of life, who resist. The first plan arrived with the European invaders but was not abandoned with independence.
—Guillermo Banfil Batalla
The conquest of this continent did not end with the Spanish leaving, nor with the American Declarations of whatevers. The conquest bloodly, blindly, desperately staggers on. But unless you kill every single one of us and our descendants (or wipe our memories), this conquest will never succeed. Invent laws, invent courts, invent reasons why Indians are subhuman, but it doesn't matter, your small-scale dreams and greed-stained papers flutter like sick flies in a mighty wind of inconsequence. Some of us keep our hearts in the hands of the Earth, our precious truths in the gold envelopes of the Sun, herself—places where time will not yield to the Lie. Some of us have deeper alliances than those formed by the Dollar. We are still here. We will be here to watch the balance restored. We are restoring the balance.
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Comentarios (14)
Arcturus dijo:
what a great piece! thx for posting it, nezua
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 7 de Enero, 2007 at 09:34 AM
Arcturus dijo:
Freedom Fighters
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 7 de Enero, 2007 at 09:45 AM
Professor Zero dijo:
Yes. From talking about this topic with various people I have realized that 'Americans' have a REALLY difficult time with the idea of NO BORDERS ... the idea that borders are artificial.
They want access to other countries, markets, etc., of course, but they do not seem to be able to wrap their brains around the idea that national boundaries are historical/political artifacts, time bound, and so on. It is truly odd.
Palabras por Professor Zero spat forth on el 7 de Enero, 2007 at 11:28 AM
Rafael dijo:
You learn something everyday. I didn't know that so much of the Taino survived in me. I guess that the Tainas where to hot for the Spanish to keep their hands of and maybe more than one Taino did a number on the white lady of the hacienda!
Thanks for the info Nez, keep up the fight!
America Libre!
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 7 de Enero, 2007 at 11:39 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
Thanks for the words and the link, Arcturus. That's a great article you linked, and that woman makes me proud. That's right in line with what I'm talking about, and almost the same story (but with Indians in Mexico) that I will post an article about later, the one I also mentioned yesterday about the Indians fighting to keep their fishing rights.
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Yeah, Cero. The USA corporation amalgamation wants it all. To exploit other peoples in the name of "Free Trade" or "open markets" but we don't want to give anything up on our side. a one-way door. And as always, the Western paradigm seeks an unnatural imbalance that Nature herself will turn on its head, if nothing else.
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right on, Rafael!
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 7 de Enero, 2007 at 01:05 PM
Arcturus dijo:
yes, do! I read about that when Marcos was down there
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 7 de Enero, 2007 at 02:04 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
the article/notice i'll post is exciting, too, because it's a call for action to support them, with a place to go, and everything. camping out on the border, or near it or something, i forget. later this year.
i'll post it later, i'm feeling a little low (poor sleep? cold? no se) and think i need some couchmovie medicine. and i'm working on a lil post to cleanse myself of the buchanan-stink i have on my fingers from finishing his damn book recently. ::shudder::
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 7 de Enero, 2007 at 02:10 PM
Arcturus dijo:
is that teh same tribe whose women took a vow of chastisty? I'm too lazy to go search out my notes . . . we're off to Chaw'se to do a little private 'membrance of harry f - his work means a lot to me, & the loss is hitting in odd ways
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 7 de Enero, 2007 at 02:13 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
This is the Mexicali Valley Cucupá. I don't think it's related. But I don't know that for sure.
very cool, man. he did some beautiful work, no doubt. hope it is a healing time for you.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 7 de Enero, 2007 at 02:20 PM
Arcturus dijo:
yea, related - it was the kiliwa:
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2205.html
"chastity-pact" was sloppy:
more that might be of use:
http://www.kumeyaay.com/news/news_detail.html?id=4174
http://www.kumeyaay.com/reservations/baja.html
http://www.indigenouspeople.net/jgutierrez.htm#kiliwa
http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press494.htm
Palabras por Arcturus spat forth on el 7 de Enero, 2007 at 07:05 PM
tedex dijo:
Borders are quite real. While Europeans and Asians were busy creating technology, ships, machinery, medicine, and higher knowledge, Aztlan was busy tossing virgins down the bloody steps of pyramids and tearing the still beating hearts from innocents in the name of Cat God. Aztlan was full of tribes fighting bloody battles for turf. Bloodthirsty, primitive, cavemanlike monkey people running around killing each other over corn.
Borders are fought over every day in Mexico between states and provinces, presided over by greedy, self centered blood barons who would as soon kill a brother Aztlanist as look at him. They will kill each other over a kilo of weed. THey will kidnap their brightest for money to buy shiny european cars.
You people are a joke. You had tens of thousand of years to make North America into something, then you lost it, and now that it's the biggest economy in the world, you want it back?
You have everything south of Texas. Do something with it. Show us how smart and industrious you are. My money is on you turning North America back into a dirty wasteland like Mexico.
Palabras por tedex spat forth on el 9 de Enero, 2007 at 09:41 PM
Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | dijo:
Oh, is that so, kleenex? "Higher knowledge"? like the concept of Zero? like the The Dresden Codex? The Madud Codex? Oh...no, that was the Maya. Hmmm. Do you mean a calender more accurate than the Gregorian calender; the Haab and the Tzolkin calendars? OH you probably mean the Popol Vuh? The temple at Copan? Oh, shit...that was the Maya, too. Maybe by "higher knowledge" you mean the Korbel Arch? Perhaps you mean Mesoamerica's most complex hieroglyphic system? Oh shnap...that was the Maya, too. I got it! Chocolate! Nope...Maya.
OH, I got it! You probably mean the unparalleled bridge and water city of Tenochtitlán! Or maybe the temple at Teotihuacán! Wait...that was the Aztecs. Chichén Itzá? Hmmm. that was the Maya and Toltec.
The lurvely Europeans you speak of brought disease, torture, and death. You're pretty proud of those achievements, I guess. And as far as what "America" has wrought, you show (again) your sad, common, propaganda-addled mind. If you were educated with real history you might understand that nothing in this land would be built but for the enslavement and exploitation of non-White races. You are nothing but a big, ugly sound dragging a forged document around.
Listen, kleenex. I'm not goin to charge you for the history lesson. Call it my gift to your sad info-starved ass. Hey! Here's a bonus just because, well, I pity you: "Aztlán" was not a person, and Aztlán was not a tribe. Damn. Sorry to bust your bubble. And I won't even tell you what you need to know. You'll have to go look it up!
Aw,and you thought you were being all strong n shit. Spitting derision and imprecise history, just like you been taught. Spitting Imperial racist agenda like a good sock-puppet. And you don't know shit. Aren't you the slighest bit concerned about embarrassing yourself in public? Jaja!
That corn that you scorn is what kept the pilgrims alive. And without that corn you casually dismiss, your ancestors would never have been able to live to exploit the Indians, who still live in Mexico, and who still live in "America," as well. But why don't you just go ahead and think of me and my people next time you stick a buttery one in your mouth. Because you wouldn't have it without us. I'm serious. You will now think of me every single fuckin time you eat some corn. Count on it. Just say "thanks" and dig in.
"Bloody battles for turf"? Like in Iraq? Like at the Sand Creek Massacre? Like on the Seminoles in Florida? Whatchoo talkin bout, pawn? What kinda smoke is you on?
Your brain is a joke. Your self-confidence in argument is a joke. Your accumulated (dearth of) knowledge is a joke! I know I'm laughing! That's right. My ancestors had tens of thousands of years, and they achieved amazing systems of trade, commerce, math, religion, and science. And then the White Man came and fearfully burned everything. Greedily stole everything. Made way for you and your ignorant ilk, who approach in just the same way: with ignorance and loathing and greed and fear; no intelligence, no wisdom, no grace.
"We" don't have "everything south of Texas, gringo. We have this whole continent. And you can squirm and drool propaganda all you want. But it remains stolen land and you are but an infection upon it. And what? Money? Your money is already turning North America into a dirty wasteland. So dig thyself, güero. And do yourself a favor: read some books!
Palabras por Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | spat forth on el 9 de Enero, 2007 at 11:30 PM
tizoc dijo:
sr. k-jonez, esos gabachos bueyes ni se banaban / cochinos - por eso nos enfermaron con sus plagas
eventually those euro-invaders learned hygeine (unfortunately they took over our land which they are making filthy)
now they take showers/baths (thank god), i wish they would also learn to cleanse their soul/spirit/mind/ & conscious
Palabras por tizoc spat forth on el 9 de Junio, 2007 at 02:42 PM
manuelito dijo:
this article is one i have been seeking. most of all the history. and of course the race. i for one know that my mother is from the otomi people in mexico and my father is mestizo, perhaps tlaxcallan. my brother and i are eventually more than half native, not illegal or hispanic or latino like the way they label people. i just hope that my people actually look at their past and investigate who they really are.
Palabras por manuelito spat forth on el 3 de Septiembre, 2007 at 11:50 AM