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Originally Posted by Don

The leading player quoted is Rudy Acuna...a well known Mexican supremacist.

Rodolfo Acuna is a pretend Mexican brown American supremacist - a card carrying member of that Aztlan you help promote. His parents were Mexican, from Sonora and Jalisco.

Acuna was born in something like 1932 in California and grew up in East LA. The family's American experience dates from the 1870's or so beginning in Tuscon.

His life experience would not be accepted in Mexico as Mexican, and might be described in Octavio Paz' 1958 book Labyrinth of solitude as "not wanting" (in the true Mexican cultural sense the American born can never be "Mexican" whether desiring to or not) to be Mexican, as well not wanting to be American, but even knowing it to be dangerous antagonizes the majority culture.

Acuna is and old school, old time AMERICAN Chicano drenched in the past, a centuries old, never ending problem in Mexico which prevents a Mexican future - perhaps he inherited the tendency.

Acuna is an American racist, not a Mexican racist. I knew a Korean War vet who grew up in East LA - even though his father was from Jalisco, the "Spanish" he learned in East LA wasn't Mexican enough to effectively communicate with Mexican nationals. Acuna may have made extra effort in that regard.

The man is something over 80 years old, and indications may be that senility is creeping up on him.