Reconqustia of the South West US

Do you accept / support Reconquista?
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In an interview with In Search of Aztlán on August 8, 1999, Jose Angel Gutierrez, a political science professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, stated that:

“We're the only ethnic group in America that has been dismembered. We didn't migrate here or immigrate here voluntarily. The United States came to us in succeeding waves of invasions. We are a captive people, in a sense, a hostage people. It is our political destiny and our right to self-determination to want to have our homeland [back]. Whether they like it or not is immaterial. If they call us radicals or subversives or separatists, that's their problem. This is our home, and this is our homeland, and we are entitled to it. We are the host. Everyone else is a guest.[14]

(as cited in the Washington Times), Gutierrez is quoted as saying:

“We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It's a matter of time. The explosion is in our population.[8]

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windinhishair · 61-69, M

And your citation of a single person (with a nutty premise, by the way) almost 20 years ago, is intended to show what about the larger picture?

St0ut · 51-55, M

@windinhishair
A May 2006 Zogby poll reported that 58% of Mexicans believe that the southwestern US belongs to Mexico.[18]

Harvard University professor Samuel P. Huntington, a proponent of the widespread popularity of Reconquista, stated in 2004 that:

“Demographically, socially and culturally, the reconquista (re-conquest) of the Southwest United States by Mexican immigrants is well under way. [However] A meaningful move to reunite these territories with Mexico seems unlikely...
No other immigrant group in U.S. history has asserted or could assert a historical claim to U.S. territory. Mexicans and Mexican-Americans can and do make that claim.[19]

In an editorial written in Investor's Business Daily, it said efforts by past Mexican government officials to influence the 2016 election was a form of "reconquista".[26] This view was not shared in an editorial in the American Thinker, which pointed towards Californio independence from Mexico in the mid-19th century.[27]

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@St0ut So what? Mexico is not going to take over the Southwest. That's a laughable premise.

St0ut · 51-55, M

@windinhishair President Vicente Fox,[8][19][28] who spoke of Mexican immigrants maintaining their culture and Spanish language in the United States as they migrated in greater numbers to this area.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

So? In a free country, you can practice what you like, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.

St0ut · 51-55, M

But I have just submitted the facts. I am betting you really like Chomsky. Don’t you

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@St0ut Isn't he the third baseman for the Cardinals?

St0ut · 51-55, M

@windinhishair you can just say yes you support it. Really you can just say what you feel.

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windinhishair · 61-69, M

@St0ut You've submitted a couple of statements by individuals over a 20 year period. Doesn't mean that the Southwest is being taken over by Mexicans, any more than the nation is being overrun by Native Americans that practice their own cultural beliefs.

St0ut · 51-55, M

Yo know if I sliced right wing crap I.e infowars or thugs. But no I didn’t this is Harvard and other acreditird think tanks and statements by govt officials.
It a free country for the moment.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

So far all you've presented are a couple of individual statements about areas that have a high Hispanic population. So? Yes, there are lots of Hispanics in the Southwest. And yes, many of them have cultural differences from, say, people who live in rural Maine. So? They aren't going to become part of Mexico again. Your Harvard professor says that himself. Your point seems to be that somehow this is a big problem to have a large number of Hispanics in the Southwest. I've lived there, and I didn't see a problem when I lived there, and don't see a problem with it now. Cultural differences in people that live in the US is a good thing, not a bad thing. Cultural diversity is one of the things that makes America great in the first place.

St0ut · 51-55, M

@windinhishair yet you don’t seem concerned with the preserving the american culture.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@St0ut What is America Culture? We're a nation of immigrants. Our diversity is our strength. It diminishes me in no way to associate with Mexicans, Sudanese, Indonesians, Vietnamese, Nigerians, or people from any other area of the world, and to be interested in their own cultures and food. It is sad you think it does.

St0ut · 51-55, M

@windinhishair ok. We are done. I am tired of you calling me a racist

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@St0ut I didn't call you a racist. Perhaps you are feeling like one. I am simply pointing out that different cultures are not a threat to you or anyone else.

Northwest · M

@St0ut

[quote]yet you don’t seem concerned with the preserving the american culture.
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Navajo? Nez Perce? Pueblo? Puyalllup? Apache? I am deeply concerned that we’re rapidly losing these languages and cultures.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@Northwest In the Northeast, the Iroquois have maintained their culture and identity and sovereignty. Native Americans invented the game of lacrosse and it is still a sacred act to play the game. The Iroquois field a team in the World Championships and are generally third behind the US and Canada, but ahead of teams from Australia, the UK, and other nations. Hopefully they retain their cultural identity, which is true American.

Northwest · M

@windinhishair So, back in the day, the Iroquois were the snobby kids? :-)

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@Northwest LOL. A couple of years ago, there was a movie called Crooked Arrow about a Native American high school team that wins the state championship. In one of the scenes, a snobby suburban mom of the losing prep school says "When did the Indians start playing lacrosse anyway?" when they start to beat her snobby son's team.

The reality is that the Iroquois play the game to honor their ancestors and the Creator. Every male born is given a lacrosse stick and ball in his crib and is taught the meaning of the game early in life. To play and to give your best is to honor your ancestors and the Creator.

This is a perfect example of how our cultural diversity enhances our lives, not detracts from them. And is a great example of our original American Culture.

Northwest · M

@windinhishair :-) We don't have Iroquois in the Northwest, so it's mostly prep school kids who play Lacrosse :-) No that there's anything wrong with prep schools :-)

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@Northwest Nothing wrong with prep schools at all. My cousin plays attack for a prep school in the northeast and is being recruited by Johns Hopkins and Syracuse, among others. Lots of box lacrosse (indoor game version) is played in the Northwest, especially by First Nations in BC.