Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Today I come before you with a request. If you have been covering the media's coverage of the protest that has been going on throughout the United States that has even occured on the Washington, D.C. Mall, related to the current debate and recent legislation on Immigration Reform and Border Security you probably understand this to be a serious and vital issue.
Both the House and the Senate are out for two weeks or for the Easter Holiday, in the mean time, the Immigration Reform Policy is still being protested. At this time I am requesting you to contact your Federal Representative by way of submitting the following document in full and requesting your Federal Representative to take a more Human position on Immigration Reform and Border Security.
I am making the data available for you to contact your Federal Representative so that you can submit the enclosed document along with your own respects about this issue. Thank you.
http://www.senate.gov - Search for your senators by name, state or congressional class, and visit their websites.
http://www.house.gov - Find contact information for your U.S. representative by typing in your zip code.
Please copy and paste the following into a new e-mail and send it to your Federal Representative along with your own personal comments.
WHO ARE THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO?
While both the Congress and the Senate are out for two weeks, the debate on Immigration Reform and Border Security is being protested Nation wide in some of the larger U.S. communities, with a huge demonstration that took place in D.C.
The politic's of Immigration Reform may pertain to large groups of people of different nationalities but the focus of the current debates that have taken place in Congress and the Senate have been mainly directed to Mexico.
Many Americans have their own view of the people of Mexico, but is that view point centered around racism? Do Americans and the world actually know who the people from Mexico are?
The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, this Indian Country now known as Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. Since its independence, Mexico has defined itself as a Mestizo Nation, redefining the Spanish Conquest of the Amerindian population as the "painful birth of the Mexican people". As such, the "Mestizo" concept has become the identity and culture of the independent country.
The Mexican population is composed of three main groups: the people of Spanish descent, the Indians, and the people of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry, or Mestizos. Of these groups, the Mestizos are by far the largest, constituting about 60% of the population. The Indians total about 30%.
Rural areas are populated by Indians, descendants of the highly developed societies of the Maya, Aztec, and Toltecs, and by Spanish and Mestizo farmers and laborers; each of these heritages has enriched the regional culture. In the cities both European, particularly Spanish and French, and North American influences are evident(assimilation?). Most contemporary Mexican artists are striving to produce identifiably Mexican work that blends Spanish, Indian, and modern European styles.
Mexico has defined itself, in the second article of its constitution, as a "pluricultural" nation, in recognition of the diverse ethnic groups that constitute it, and in which the Indigenous Peoples are its foundation.
The process of assimilation of the Indian in Mexico was a far more affective success then what it was in America. As in the United States, where the non-Indians produced the history, in Mexico the non-Indian also composed the history and as it is historically realized, both Mexico and America have tried to formulate a history that declares their Nations as to being the Good Guys and the Indian the Bad Guys, only today, that history is becoming unraveled and the truth is being told.
Reality of the issue, both America and Mexico are indeed Nations of Immigrants, countries in which were invaded by non-Indians in which centuries of oppression became a factor, where cultural genocide was evident and the inhuman treatment of the Indians is interpreted to be a tragedy.
Whatever may be your view of Mexicans, please do not characterize them as Aliens, Immigrants, Latino's, Criminals or other unrealistic labels, for there is a huge population of Indian and mixed Indians that still populate Mexico and they are in fact Human Beings who have Civil and Human Right's.
Lessons of life? yes, because when you read the facts, reality speaks for it's self and the intelligence brings one to realize, Indian people still occupy the land called Mexico, something many of us have failed to understand mainly due to the false history that has been presented by the non-Indians.
Today’s history of Mexico illustrates the fact that there is still a huge number of Indian and Indian/Spanish mixed people, many of these people were encouraged to believe they were not Indian but pure Spanish and the fact is yes, some may be full blood Spanish, while on the other hand, it is factual there is a huge population who are mixed Indian and Spanish, while there is a population declared to be full blood Indians, so please do your best to understand just who these people are from Mexico. Thank you.
Prepared and Composed by Larry Kibby
Elko Indian Colony, Nevada
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This e-mail prepared by Larry Kibby
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