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Posted on
12/10/2009 1:02 PM EST
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Ignorance, racism cannot take away our history
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Patricia B. Ramírez, MPA
After reading your article in El Semanario 12-3-09, Western Civilization: To be or not to be by Roberto ‘Dr. Cintli’ Rodréguez, please give that empty-headed c****n, Arizona hick, some more history of Kokopelli – who has been drawn by a human-hands from the tip of Chile all the way to New México/Colorado (drawings of Kokopelli discovered in caves) as evidence that our peoples were great communicators and left their spirits here for us to bring down ignorant professors like him.
Kokopelli’s symbol is playing a flute with a star following -- the spirit is also a story teller and a magician but is also known to others in other forms.
My last comment, is the 4 races – black, red, yellow and white – does not include our Indigenous cultures. When I was born in 1954, I consider myself Mexican born of a Mexican father (México) and a Mexican mother (born in Santa Barbara, California) with a maternal grandmother from Pachuca, Hildalgo, I was identified as “white” on my birth certificate– I asked why? Because we were considered Spanish/Spanishard/European.
In 1985, my son, Che was born, his birth certificate, Kaiser, California, had him as white. I said his father is a Mexican. So, the economic pie was divided based on races, more white, more pie. The current birth certificate policy is not to put race on birth certificates. The Heritage Foundation, an ultra-right conservative lobby group, coined “Hispanics” for their convenience otra vez.
Thank you for claiming our cultura that never left and will never leave. ¡Adelante!
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