An Immigrant Revolution!!!

I think America is about to embark on another race-centered Power Movement. I am not well verse in Chicano studies, so we may very well be in the middle of such a movement. But I feel it will soon reach the level of the Black Power Movement if they continue down the path I think they are on. Let me explain. I was in the second session at the Ray Miller Institute which consisted of two speakers presenting on the subject of immigration in America. One speaker was female and Venezuelan and the other was male and Somolian. Both were debunking the myths of immigrants coming to this country. In conclusion she seemed to make a plea to the class, “our nucleus is the same as everyone else. We pray to the same God, we all want a good family and we just want to work to support that family.” It was a plea reminiscent of early non-violent Black civil rights activists trying to pull at the heart strings of white America in hopes that Uncle Sam and his puppets would stop demonizing them. It is no different than when Blacks were saying, “look at us. We aren’t barbarians like you think. We can dress nice, talk nice, and we won’t even fight you when you push us in the face. So please let us integrate. Please. We will be good we promise.” They soon realized that white people were not trying to care about the plight of Black Americans and soon a new mentality was formed…Black Power. I say that the Latino Power Movement is coming because the revelation that white sympathy for brown people doesn’t exist in form for which they hope. It will be police brutality encouraged by the national government that will trigger a new mindset. For example in Irving, Texas the local police are a part of a nationwide Criminal Alien Program were police assist in identifying people suspected of being illegal immigrants after they have been arrested. But interestingly, the police are profiling and stopping Latino motorists when no crime has been committed thus, the number of undocumented immigrants being arrested and deported from Irving has risen significantly. It sounds all too familiar. Local Police in cahoots with the federal government in order to “neutralize” a problem and local police abuse their power. One difference with Latinos is they can be sent back to their place of origin…Blacks couldn’t. So instead they gave “communists” and members of the Black Power movement extended prison terms. What really is the difference between the Americans for the Preservation of the White Race (APWR) of the 1960s who believed that the federal government wasn’t properly handling the civil rights workers threatening the beloved Southern way of life and the Minutemen of today who choose to "do the job our government refuses to do" and "protect America" from the "tens of millions of invading illegal aliens who are devouring and plundering our nation." iSince there tends to be a trend of whites fighting people of color why are black people joining the Minutemen? Organizations like the Crispus Attucks Brigade (interestingly paying homage to another Black man fighting in a white man’s war) and the American Black Citizens Opposed to Illegal Immigration Invasion marching with the belief that illegal immigrants are taking jobs from Blacks. It is that same fear that was that was present in the white auto workers in Michigan and every other majority white-employed business in America. So why is there going to be a Latino Power Movement? It is because, like the Sons of Watts or Us, they have no real allies but themselves. Blacks and other people of color are vehemently requesting a seat on the bandwagon led by whites shoving down our throats the propaganda of “fear the brown people because it you don’t they will take your jobs and then your can’t feed your family and then you will die!” It is the same propaganda utilizing the same media devices and the same police brutality and the same anti-other sentiments that hurt, the Black Power Movement participants. Somolians are going to get tired of arriving in America with college degrees and having to drive a cab (interestingly reminiscent of Black college graduates of the 1950’s) and Latinos are going to get tired of getting beaten by racist Americans (no longer just white people). Then instead of the New Republic of Africa it will be the New Republic of Tenochtitlan. No more Maria or Jose. No more Diaz or Cortez. New names will be created using ancient Mayan and Aztec language. They will want to segregate themselves and they will have grounds to do so since the bottom part of many of the American states bordering America were originally a part of Mexico. There will be a new wave of Latino consciousness. They are asking for a piece of the American pie. Sooner than later they will be taking it by any means necessary. But hopefully, they won’t be interested in being American because (in the words of Malcolm X) America isn’t interested in them. It takes more effort for Blacks to go back to Africa in hopes of preserving the remaining culture that doesn’t have a huge Eurocentric footprint on top of it. Mexicans and all from Central America wanting to transplant themselves in the “land of the free and home of the brave” will recognize every time someone leaves their country and assimilate into white America, a little piece of their history is left behind.

Just FYI... I understand that there was a Chicano Movement during the 1960s but what I mean it there is going to be a Revolution beyond what we have seen in the past 40-50 years.