Historia Entries

7 de Mayo, 2008

Symbol and Essence: Part 4.5

Categorized under Blogando , Comida , Cultura , Historia , Medios | Tags: blogs, Cinco de Mayo, MainStreet.com

GRACIAS to Jessica Wakeman, who interviewed me yesterday for her Cinco de Mayo article at mainstreet.com. Thanks, Jessica, for doing just what you promised by putting some focus on certain points I hoped to stress. Even if that geography wasn't originally in your plan. What? My tacky chile pepper...

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 11:58 AM.  | | (3)

29 de Abril, 2008

Home of the Brave, Sweatshop of the Free

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Historia , Parenting , Política Estados Unidos , Resistencia | Tags: hypocrisy, Kahlil Gibran, Power to the People, Protest, RNC, University of Montana, Youth

TAKE the power back. This is unacceptable. The eight University of Montana students who stormed Main Hall earlier this month, staged a sit-in protest in the campus president's office, and were arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing will get a lesson in consequences from UM administrators on Tuesday. Charles Couture,...

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6 de Abril, 2008

Absolut Reconquista Ad: Oh please let Absolut Reparations be next!

Categorized under Carmen D. , Español , Globalización , Historia , Humor , Medios | Tags: Absolut ad Mexico

Here’s the Absolut ad that first appeared in Mexico: It depicts the border between Mexico and the United States prior to the February 2, 1848 signing of The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following Mexico's loss of the Mexican American War. The terms of that Treaty were changed by the United...

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 If you're looking, you'll find Carmen D. walking the digital frontier of American race relations over at her blog All About Race. She fantasizes about a great big honest, brave, discordant conversation about race in which everybody participates. This contribution to that awakening was offered at exactly 7:14 AM.   | | (14)

24 de Marzo, 2008

Bethesda and Oaxaca [The White Lens 8.5]

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Foto , Historia , La Lente Blanca , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Format, iPhone, Mestizaje, Mexico, MTV, Oaxaca, Obama, Oregon, race, racism

AND NOW A STEAMING MUG OF COFFEE and a big wave from Nezua and all others in la casa—and by the way, big thanks to my weekend warriors, those that showed up and bloggedeth, adding their stones to the scale, daring to brave a hungry and discerning readership that...

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22 de Marzo, 2008

I was in the room when....

Categorized under Aprender , Character Study , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Historia , Invitados , La Lente Blanca , Política Estados Unidos , Preguntas , Race for '08 , Rafael , Raza , Religión , Stories , Terrorizing la Gente , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: consequences, Obama, pastor, race, religion, truth

I was in the room when... a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic...

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 rafael is a student, a writer, a blogger, a podcaster and above all else a dreamer. This post sent into the airwaves at 7:52 AM.  | | (8)

17 de Marzo, 2008

¡Que Vivan Los San Patricios!

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Historia , día festivo | Tags: borders, Colonization, eat the rich, England, Farming, historia, Immigration, Ireland, Power to the People, St. Patrick's Day, The Great Hunger

THIS IS NOT the first time in history that those with power looking only toward their own profit margin have unwittingly led their hand to disastrous effects on larger populations' basic ability to live; it is not the first time that indifference to the hunger of la gente has...

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18 de Enero, 2008

Poison? Or Antidote?

Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Español , Frontera , Hipnotismo , Historia | Tags: borders, Bracero, Immigration, Mexico

South Carolina has one of the fastest-growing Latino populations in the nation, and illegal immigration is one of the hottest topics -- along with concerns about the economy and the Iraq war -- among likely voters in the state's Republican primary Saturday. In Saluda County, a collection of farming and...

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8 de Enero, 2008

Lydia Mendoza, ¡presente!

Categorized under Arte , Corazón , Cultura , Historia , M , Música , Raza , Salud | Tags: brown pride, Chicanas, Lydia Mendoza, Mexicans, music, workers

Lydia Mendoza, a woman whose song and performance became part of the cornerstones of American music, died on December 20, 2007 at 91 years old. Her accolades include being the first Texan to win the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 1982 and winning the National Medal...

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 M spits hot fire at Problemchylde. This post was rhymed and ripped by the hottest blogger of all time at 6:16 AM.  | | (7)

3 de Enero, 2008

Lakotah Declare Liens on Government-Held Land

Categorized under Historia , Indígena , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: escuela, historia, indigenous, Lakota People, Power to the People

AND MAKE IT CLEAR that they don't have beef with the citizens of the USA, but with the government, itself. And that they are not only withdrawing from the treaties and reclaiming sovereignty, but also initiating actions to reclaim the land. Following up on this amazing happening posted on...

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20 de Noviembre, 2007

¡Viva la Revolución!

Categorized under Historia , Política México , Resistencia | Tags: Election, familia, historia, Mexico, Migrant farmers, Oaxaca, Obrador, Power to the People, Revolutionaries, Zapata

NOVEMBER 20 is the day, in 1910, that the Mexican Porfiriato—the rule of Porfirio Díaz [aka José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz], showed its first serious cracks. November 20 is understood as the day that began the Mexican Revolution of 1910, as it is the day Francisco Madera made...

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18 de Noviembre, 2007

Overtaking the Joneses [The War Between Surnames]

Categorized under Cultura , Historia , Medios | Tags: Adoption, español, familia, historia, hype, Language, Latino, My Life, Que Viva Las Mujeres, The Haunted Land

THE EPIC STRUGGLE BETWEEN SURNAMES has been raging across the land largely unnoticed, but somewhere or other, the battle lines have been drawn. Articles like the New York Times' In Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up to Joneses bring an accounting of the war torn namescape to us back...

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9 de Noviembre, 2007

On the other side of town, a gassy rattle sounded for a moment.

Categorized under Historia | Tags: Rove

KARL ROVE misses the days when people cared what he said....

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9 de Octubre, 2007

A Remembering

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Historia , Indígena | Tags: Christopher Columbus, historia, indigenous, Language, The Haunted Land

I OFTEN WRITE OF "THE HAUNTED LAND," referring to a reckoning that has never happened, referring to the exploitation and abuse that paved the way for all our American lives today, referring to the myriad wounds and unhealed injury and wrongs not redressed in our constant retelling of history, referring...

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28 de Septiembre, 2007

Mychal Bell Freed on Bail

Categorized under Historia , Ley , Violencia | Tags: Hope, Jena 6, The Haunted Land, White Supremacy

MYCHAL BELL, of the Jena 6, has been freed on bail. JENA, La. (AP) - A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate prompted a massive civil rights protest here walked out of a courthouse Thursday after a judge ordered him freed. Mychal Bell's release...

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26 de Agosto, 2007

The Character of the Region

Categorized under Historia , Ley | Tags: ALIENZ, historia, hype, hypocrisy, migra, The Haunted Land

or Blood in the Quill, Still. MANASSAS, Va. -- Ines Olivia Martinez wonders if her family will be denied medical care. Even her mentally disabled 13-year-old son has been anxiously pointing out police cars amid fears of a local crackdown on illegal immigrants. Resolutions to deny a potentially wide range...

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24 de Agosto, 2007

Una Historia Hipocrítica

Categorized under Cultura , Historia | Tags: historia, hype, hypocrisy, Mexico

Are you tired of waiting to pay for your groceries while Illegal Aliens pay with food stamps and then go outside and get in a $40,000 car? Are you tired of paying taxes when Illegal Aliens pay NONE! Are you tired of reading that another Illegal Alien was arrested...

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6 de Julio, 2007

bushes in the garden

Categorized under Historia | Tags: bush, historia

FANTASTIC ARTICLE by David Halberstam, one that contextualizes dubya bush in his beloved arms of "history," that History that bush imagines will one day enshrine all his greedy, violent, lie-littered deeds with some sort of benevolent and holy light. Oh, so sad, but Mister Halberstam rips shit up: President Bush...

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9 de Junio, 2007

Historical Invasionism

Categorized under Arte , El Malestar Pálido , Historia | Tags: fotoshop, racism, The Haunted Land, White Supremacy

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30 de Mayo, 2007

Corporate Czars and the Beet Field Peon

Categorized under Frontera , Historia , Ley , Religión | Tags: hypocrisy, Mota, racism

AND WHILE WE ARE DISCUSSING the validity of "law," the morality of the "force" that fuels these laws, the agents who prosper from our swallowing them whole, and the hypocrisy therein that cannot withstand close inspection, I offer this:...

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29 de Mayo, 2007

A Lot of Electoral Votes

Categorized under Hipnotismo , Historia | Tags: Iraq, Mexico

FINALLY, someone in the MSM compares America's historic land grab in Mexico with her current oil grab in Iraq. Wars of aggression trumped up on lies and greed. It's a clear comparison, and I've been making it for a while. But what does the New York Sun come up...

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17 de Mayo, 2007

Truth Conspires to Start Tiny Fires

Categorized under Ciencia , Historia , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: JFK

OH, HELL just when those grassy knoll people started getting quiet. This is only going to stir things up. In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to...

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14 de Mayo, 2007

The Moral of a Truncated Tale

Categorized under Historia | Tags: Format, historia, Hope, indigenous, The Haunted Land

SOME DANGEROUS LESSONS ARE LEARNED when you pretend history starts with a specific land-grab. For instance, if you pretend that history begins once the bulk of the indigenous of (North) America were decimated, corralled, and had their land taken, you can apply the definition of genocide to the "melting-pot"...

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7 de Mayo, 2007

Oaxaca Earthquake

Categorized under Ciencia , Historia , Oaxaca | Tags: Earthquake, Oaxaca

OAXACA gets shaken up by a 5.1 earthquake. Sounds like it was mild, but of course any earthquake news in Mexico brings up some bad memories....

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29 de Abril, 2007

Sand Creek Massacre Site Memorialized

Categorized under Historia , Indígena | Tags: indigenous, Manifest Destiny

THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE of 1864. It was not only an atrocity, but one that symbolizes many others. The day is a particularly cruel and bloody chapter in the narrative that has brought the current America into existence. The country that some modern-day Americans claim (oh so haughtily) is...

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27 de Abril, 2007

You Can't Deport the Truth

Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Hipnotismo , Historia , Indígena , Ley , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: borders, Change, Chicanism@, False History, Fear, historia, Hutto, hypocrisy, indigenous, mexicans, YouTube

BIG GOLD-TOPPED PROPZ to mis amig@s sech as XicanoPwr and Marisa at Latina Lista and mi güero blo'migo at Mexfiles, and Migra Matters and No Más Muertes and all the other soldader@s who stare the border issue in the face day after day after day after day. I read...

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12 de Abril, 2007

And so on.

Categorized under Historia , Literatura | Tags: Authors, Vonnegut

VAYA CON DIOS, Kurt! You were a storyteller, a teacher, and a friend. The world won't be quite the same without you, amigo....

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11 de Abril, 2007

PBS and Ken Burns to include Latinos in THE WAR!

Categorized under Historia , Raza | Tags: historia, hype, Ken Burns, Latino, Power to the People

MIL GRACIAS TO ALL who have sent letters or made calls to PBS or anyone else on the issue of Ken Burns' and his omission of Latinos from his newest documentary on WWII, The War. For those following the story, here is the victory we have been working and...

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Why Hitler Loved America

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Historia | Tags: historia, Hitler

...AND HOW THE U.S.A's slaughter of Indians and immigration policies inspired him. In Hitler's view, the US had become a major power by 'ethnic cleansing' of the native inhabitants: he saw clearly that the US itself, which poses as a nation state, is in fact an Empire."...

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4 de Abril, 2007

The King is Gone

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Foto , Historia | Tags: jr., MLK

...BUT he's not forgotten....

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2 de Abril, 2007

Defend The Honor - Update March 31

Categorized under Historia , Raza | Tags: historia, hype, Ken Burns, Latino, Power to the People

THANKS TO ALL who have sent letters or made calls to PBS or anyone else on the issue of Ken Burns' and his omission of Latinos from his newest documentary on WWII, The War. For those following the story, here is the latest update on the situation: PBS is...

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27 de Marzo, 2007

Defend The Honor - Call to Action

Categorized under Acción , Historia , Raza | Tags: historia, Latino, Power to the People

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING the story of Ken Burns' and his omission of Latinos from his newest documentary on WWII, The War—here is a call to action sent out today from Gus Chavez: Representatives of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus meet with PBS President Paula Kerger today Tuesday,...

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26 de Marzo, 2007

Defend The Honor - Update March 25

Categorized under Cultura , Historia , Raza | Tags: historia, hype, Ken Burns, Power to the People

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING the story of Ken Burns' and his omission of Latinos from his newest documentary on WWII, The War—here are some updates on the situation: This week, NCLR president Janet Murgia wrote an eloquent and very direct letter to PBS chairman Paula Kerger. That...

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25 de Marzo, 2007

Mexico Freed the Slaves First

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Historia | Tags: historia, Mexicans, Mexico

ONE OF MY PERSONAL interests is setting history straight. Not for the WORLD or anything so grand. For myself. And thus, for my children. And for theirs. And for theirs. And so on. And so on. And so on—just like the creepy 1970s shampoo commercial, ese. Because what I've...

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24 de Marzo, 2007

National Museum of the American Latino Community

Categorized under Historia , Raza | Tags: historia, Latino

SHOULD THERE BE a National Museum of the American Latino Community? At first, it seems very exciting, because as Roger Hernandez puts it in Showcase Latinos in Smithsonian, there is so much about the history of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans integral to America's history that is unknown to...

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23 de Marzo, 2007

Mel Gets Academic!

Categorized under Historia , Humor , Latin America , Raza | Tags: The Gibson

HERE AT THE UNAPOLOGETIC MELWATCH, we have been alerted to an instance of Mr. Gibson brilliantly responding to an educated woman confronting him on his film's racist portrayal of the Mayan people. Watch the hips on this dancefloor wonder as he parries the pointed passion of an assistant professor:...

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21 de Marzo, 2007

Cooking The History Book [Ken Burns' Anti-Latino Agenda]

Categorized under Acción , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Historia , Raza | Tags: historia, hypocrisy, Mexicans, Mexico, Power to the People, The Haunted Land

WHEN I SPEAK OF THE LONG WAR on Mexico, I imagine there is a faction of people who sigh and chalk it up to the fiery and verbose drama of a Xicano activist or some such thing. But what I speak of, specifically, is a long and concerted effort...

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17 de Febrero, 2007

Man's First Duty is to Humanity

Categorized under Historia , Resistencia | Tags: Capitalism, China, Cuba, Imperialism, Radicals, Revolutionaries, Robert Franklin Williams, Sanctuary Cities

"MY FIRST CONCERN IS LIBERATION; my first concern is justice and freedom, and it makes no difference what they call me; it makes no difference what they think because in the final analysis they are going to have to face reality, and the reality is that America is not...

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11 de Febrero, 2007

Five Years Ago, Today

Categorized under Blogando , Historia | Tags: Hope, Iran, September 11

ON FEBRUARY 11, 2002, I had just arrived on the West Coast after a three-day Greyhound bus trip. I had been living in NYC for years, and then shortly after the planes crashed into the WTC, I had to leave. It was very hard, because I was deeply in...

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