07/04/2025
Today I feel indifferent about celebrating independence day aka USA’s 🇺🇸 birthday, with everything going on in this country it’s hard to ignore all the social injustices happening at this moment, born and grown in the U.S this day has always had a special place in my heart but this year it just feels a little different. Myself being of Mexican🇲🇽roots, My father’s family from Jalisco and my mother’s family from Baja California with Californio roots, I have always been proud of being Mexican American, my love has always been equally divided between two cultures and two country’s one for raising me and the other for giving me my origins. Researching my genealogy and going on a journey to find out more about my family’s origins, I found out that on my mothers side we have ties to California since it’s earliest beginnings my ancestors were leather jacket soldiers sent to Las Californias Alta/Baja to protect the missions, who married native Californian woman especially from the Yumano people Kumeyaay, pai pai, Kiliwa tribes 🪶 who’ offspring married Irish and English sailors who docked on Californian beaches and deserted, also mixed in our gene pool are a few American frontiersmen. Lately I’ve been educating myself on Californio history the problem has never been California switching from Mexican to American hands, It was the violation of the treaty of hidalgo, the broken promises, The laws created and passed to make the original inhabitants into second class citizens, legally taking away their lands and ostracizing their culture and language. Fast forwarding to 2025 I feel like it’s the same story repeating it’s self violating peoples rights for self gain, I can’t celebrate this country with an oppressive regime at the oval office. This isn’t about being conservative or liberal it’s about evil vs good, How can i enjoy a beer and fireworks when families are being torn, hard working people are being sent to detention camps, are economy is intentionally being sunk for the benefit of the rich. I am writing this post not because I’m of Hispanic origin, I’m writing this because I am human, At the end of the day its about humanity 🌎