Our New Anahuac

Elvira Arellano was deported yesterday.  She was hunted down by undercover agents and taken into custody.  You must ask yourself why the government would expend sureveillance resources to arrest a young woman who is obviously not a threat.  This was a young woman who had sought refuge in a church for a year so that she would not be torn away from her son, a US citizen.

The answer is that she WAS a threat.  Elvira Arellano was a symbol of resistance to the gringo system.  She did not comply.  She told the system that she would not accept its demand for her to leave. 

Through her resistance, she gave people hope and she also stirred those passionate emotions of talk-backness and stand-up-ness.  She stirred those same emotions that made Chicanos raise arms after the gringo invasion, and she fanned those flames of indignation that made people march in the 60s, the 70s and in 2006.

Now, they have tried to make her a symbol of our people’s impotance.  They have deported her, and no matter if one million people marched in LA, and no matter if you have these liberals trying to make us believe that the polls will end most of our problems, there is nothing we can do to bring her back. 

And there go our Tios bending over backward to make us believe that we can make this society a better place, that we can make the gringo love us and respect us, and you still believe it.  They have taken our manhood, and now they are after our womanhood, and still we want Dreams and reforms. 

No.

Stop letting Dreams dictate how we Act.  Look at the reality that they have given us for 150 years, and stop dreaming for the same reforms LULAC did 100 years ago.  The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.  We have tried reform and we are in a worse place.  Now 1 in 6 so called Latino men will end up in prison.  We are in denial.

A Nation or Nothing