Precedents of the
policy of preferential
racial profiling fundamental to the establishment of “white” political power systems, illegal and
discriminatory practices of affirmative action
institutionalizing colonization to the benefit of European American
constituencies,
in violation of Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Indigenous Rights in the
Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo Territories.
VIOLATION OF
HUMAN
RIGHTS IN
The
International
Personality of the Mexicano Peoples
and the
Law of
Exceptions
ARTICLE IX
The
Mexicans who, in the territories
aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican
Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article,
shall
be incorporated into the Union of the United States. and be admitted at
the
proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States) to
the
enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according
to the
principles of the Constitution; and in the mean time, shall be
maintained and
protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and
secured in
the free exercise of
their religion without restriction.
Article XI
Considering
that a great part of the territories, which, by
the present treaty, are to be comprehended for the future within the
limits of
the United States, is now occupied by savage tribes, who will hereafter be under
the exclusive control of the Government
of the United States, and whose incursions within the territory of
Mexico would
be prejudicial in the extreme, it is solemnly agreed that all such
incursions
shall be forcibly restrained by the Government of the United States
whensoever
this may be necessary; and that when they cannot be prevented, they
shall be
punished by the said Government, and satisfaction for the same shall be
exacted
all in the same way, and with equal diligence and energy, as if the same
incursions
were meditated or committed within its own territory, against its own
citizens.
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31st US Congress, Chapter 49
September 9, 1850
US Territorial Act for the formation of the
Territorial Government
of New Mexico, through which the State of Arizona became admitted into
the
jurisdiction of the United States of America.
Sec. 6. And be it
further enacted,
That every free white male inhabitant, above the
age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of said
Territory at
the time of passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first
election,
and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory; but the
qualifications of voters and of holding office, at all subsequent
elections,
shall be such as be prescribed by the legislative assembly: Provided,
That the right of suffrage, and
of holding office, shall be exercised only by citizens of the United
States,
including those recognized as citizens by the treaty with the republic
of
Mexico, concluded February second, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.
ORDER
TO APPEAR
Before
the
National Human
Rights
Commission of the United States
Arizona Working
Group
The
Spirit of Justice, the True Light of Law
From
Selma to Phoenix, from Civil
Rights to Human Rights and, the Rights of Mother Earth!
Asamblea
de los Pueblos
May 1, 2010
Phoenix,
AZ
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Links:
Tlahtokan
Aztlan
The Master's Narrative
Memes of Caste and the Anomaly of Histories
Memes of Caste and the Anomaly of Histories
When the Adivasi, Indigenous
Peoples of the Indian subcontinent, relate their experiences under the
colonizing regimes that have swept their homelands, even references to
Alexander the Great are preceded by the invasions of the Aryans and the
introduction of the “white” concept of human cultural identity and superiority
as the determinant for the caste systems that continue to plague the cultural
landscape of India even after five thousand years.
To fast forward to the current
dialogue on race and institutionalized racism in US society that was
intensified by the 2008 presidential campaign, everyday we see and HEAR echoes
of the memes of caste that are reinforced every time the phrase “white
people” or “white” is used to describe the European American populations of the
United States. That perpetuation
of a caste based society would be completely antithetical to the precepts of
the “American Experiment of Democracy,” yet remain embedded in the vernacular
of public and private discourse regarding social relationships has roots in the
Indo-European histories, but is codified in the US Civil Rights statutes as
follows:
United States
Code
TITLE 42,
CHAPTER 21, SUBCHAPTER I, § 1981.
Equal rights
under the law
(a) Statement of
equal rights
All persons
within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every
State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give
evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the
security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens,
and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and
exactions of every kind, and to no other.
The term WHITE CITIZEN is
contextualized further by the language of the 14th Amendment to the US
Constitution which states:
Section 1. All
persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state
wherein they reside.
Thus the connection is made
institutionally and culturally via the jurisprudence of the Master's Narrative, between concepts of
white citizen and WHITE PERSON, establishing
legal personality within the US social construct as a function of relationship
to the dominant “white” power structures of rights and obligations. The anomaly being the Nican Tlacah
Indigenous Peoples who supercede the US jurisdiction as sovereign
confederations of nations holding treaty relationships with the US and other
government states of the world.
Proposal:
The historical moment of
transformation which is evident nationally and globally, provides the
opportunity to suggest a clarification in terms:
Specifically, TO EXCHANGE use of the
term “WHITE”, “white citizen”, and “white person” with the term European-American in the public
discourse on race and racism. If
the term “Black” can be correlated with African-American, why cannot the same
principle apply for the “whites”?
What prevents us from clarifying
one of the terms of the social discourse involved in the experiment in American
Democracy and let’s see what happens.
After all, the first victims of racism are the racists themselves, for
what have they done to their own families and innocent children to produce such
a culturally twisted and dehumanized constituency such as "white
people" generation after generation?
Shall we collectively continue the experiment in democracy in this hemisphere, without perpetuating the institutionalizing of a continental affirmative action program of racism and superiority for one sector of society, the descendants of the European colonizers of the 15th century?
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