LA RECONQUISTA

An old friend wrote: “When I was working for the County of Riverside the last time (1989-98), a Mexican lady - a US citizen - with whom I worked, told me about the movement to take the Southwest from the U.S. and return it to Mexico. I did not really believe her, but now I have read about the movement and I believe!”

My friend sent me the following notable comments concerning La Reconquista:

Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets: "Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die. Through love of having children, we are going to take over.”

Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council: "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over ... We are here to stay."

Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico: "The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."

Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas: "We have an aging white America . They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population ... I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it."

Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party: "Remember 187 -- proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens—was the last gasp of white America in California."

Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor: "We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country . .. I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, ‘I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back.’"

Mario Guerra Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1975-82) under Governor Jerry Brown. (He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton in 1998): "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."

Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General: "We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California."

Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University: "We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos."