California Proclaimed ‘Mexican Land’

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“You’re not going to tell me what to do, this is Mexican land, mother—–. I’m Mexican, I’m Aztec mother—–, and you’re gonna pay. My dad is going to kill you and all your family.”

That was Crystal Aguilar on February 6, yelling at police officers in Kern County, California, after she tore down an American flag, threw it in the mud, and replaced it with a Mexican flag. For the soi-disant Aztec-Mexican the stunt was a sequel of sorts.

On January 29, Aguilar stood outside Bakersfield city hall yelling “I’m a child of Mexican parents who were deported. I ended up in the system, a system that failed me, and like me, there’s many cases. We are the voices of our parents. We are on the land that was stolen.” And so on, but it would be a mistake write her off as a solo nut-job. Crystal Aguiar, only 26,  is spouting boilerplate from a racist movement of the 1960s left now institutionalized in California, and boasting powerful allies in the Democrat Party.

In the late 1960s the United Mexican American Students (UMAS) changed its name to MEChA, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan. Such a place never existed but it’s the movement’s name for the southwestern United States, which it seeks to regain for Mexico. The MEChA slogan is “Entre la raza todo, fuera de la raza, nada” – “everything within the race, nothing outside the race,” a reference to la raza cósmica, the Ibero-American race of Spaniards and Indians.

According to Mexican politician and education minister Jose Vasconcelos, author of  La Raza Cósmica, this new race is destined to replace all others. Slated to fade away is the black race, “eager for sensual joy, intoxicated with dances and unbridled lust.” The “Mongol” with his slanted eyes, “lacks the necessary boldness for new enterprises.” These too will pass away, along with the yankee “Anglos,” code for people with names such as O’Reilly, Rivard, Scalia, and Horowitz. According to the cosmic racist, the descendants of the English, Dutch and Scandinavians are “slow, almost dull, compared with the mestizo children from the south.”

As the Communist Bert Corona explained in Memoirs of Chicano History, Vasconcelos’ racial theory was “close to the kind of German racial superiority theory supported by Hitler.” Indeed, Vasconcelos served as a Nazi propagandist, editor of the pro-Axis Timon magazine. As Frank Gervasi, explained in “Swastika Over Mexico,” Vasconcelos was a major player during the Stalin-Hitler Pact.

Despite these racist roots MEChA managed to gain establishment on high-school and college campuses. Here is a list of MEChA chapters in the Los Angeles region alone. The movement divides “Aztlan” into regions such as Alta Califas, Centro Califas, SouthEast Tejaztlan and so forth, where many MEChA chapters thrive. The one at Stanford University picked up an eager recruit in Xavier Becerra, Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services boss.

As a California congressman, Becerra caught the eye of Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate, and the Mechista would have been a good fit.  “After all,” the former First Lady explained in her 2014 Hard Choices, “much of the southwestern part of the United States once belonged to Mexico and decades of immigration have only strengthened the familial and cultural ties between our nations.”  That’s the view of MEChA and a major ally wielding national influence.

La Raza Cósmica became the bible of “Chicano Studies” departments and during the late 1960s spawned the La Raza Unida Party and the Southwest Council of La Raza. In 1972 the group changed its name the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), headquartered in Washington, with constant traffic of leaders to Democrat administrations. For example, during the Obama administration NCLR vice-president Cecilia Muñoz became White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.

In 2017, the NCLR changed its name to UnidosUS but the ideology remained the same. The organization maintains the UnidosUS Action Fund, essentially a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party. Janet Murguía, who heads both divisions, served as deputy assistant to President Clinton and deputy campaign manager for Al Gore’s presidential campaign. UnidosUS applauded “President Biden’s leadership” especially on the border, which the Delaware Democrat threw open his first day in office.

“For Latino voters, a clear choice,” Murguía said in May, 2024. “With Biden, we can continue forward on a path to progress and a brighter future. This is an election we cannot afford to lose. We must re-elect Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris.” Biden gave way to Harris, who lost to Donald Trump.

That slowed the flow of the supposedly superior race into the United States.  President Trump is deporting those illegally present, beginning with the violent criminals. Crystal Aguilera doesn’t like it, but despite her obvious stupidity she serves as a remind of the racism still institutionalized in America.

Whenever someone like Crystal Aguilera acts up, be sure that Jose Vasconcelos, Janet Murguía and Xavier Becerra are in the house. At this writing Aguilera is being held in the Lerdo, California jail, on charges of trespassing, threatening a peace officer, resisting arrest and vandalism.