I am a blue-eyed, fair-skinned descendant
of Celtic-Nordic citizens of The Aztec Nation (Mexico City). My family, were
provided permanent residency status (inmigrado papers) when they moved to the
Republic of Mexico during the 1930s, where they were encouraged by the Mexican
people to engage in the mining business in Guanajuato, Mexico during the year
of my birth.
However, a fascist racist policy
inaugurated by President Lázaro Cárdenas, the same individual that welcomed my
family to Mexico and granted my mother and father permanent residency
status, resulted in the dissolution of our mining company, El Cedro, a company
that traded with other Mexican supply companies and provided needed technology
for the economic development of the Republic of Mexico.
During the political upheaval,
beginning in March 1938, Cardenas not only waged a war against my family’s
fledgling mining company, but he also expropriated (stole) the assets of 17
legally-based petroleum corporations – American, Dutch, and British – corporations
welcomed to Mexico from the onset, a world-wide boycott of Mexican oil ensued,
during which time Cardenas sold Mexican oil to Nazi Germany, then under the
leadership of Adolph Hitler.
Thus Mexico fueled World War II.
My mom returned to her own mom’s home in Missouri with my older brother (who
was born in Mexico City). She was then pregnant with me. Thus, I was born and
reared in the USA.
At the age of 17, I enrolled at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de
Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, where my father was then living . The year was
1956.
I was thus educated in Missouri,
in Mexico City, in New York City and in Oklahoma. I am an alumnus of the School
of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in
Mexico City (where I studied philosophy, language, business administration and
the history of foreign investments in Mexico), of Crowder Community College in
Missouri (where I studied architecture and building construction technology) of
the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and of the Graduate
College of the University of Oklahoma (where I studied city planning). I am the
author of The Investor’s Handbook on Mexico, first published in
1970.
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I have also, over the years, been a resident of New Orleans,
Corpus Christi and Los Angeles, where I have served as an advisory board member
for mental health agencies. Most of my closest friends,
throughout the years, have been descendants of various combinations of Celtic,
Italian, Asian, Native American, Polynesian, Mexican, Jewish, African and Arab
ancestry. I consider myself to be a citizen of the world. I highly resent being
categorized as a white man. For me, the term is barbaric and
archaic.
The roots of racism are
institutionalized in the religions of Judaism and Islam and it is the
emissaries of those ancient, barbaric religions that are today fanning the
flames of racism, worldwide, all the while absurdly claiming that they
themselves are not the authors of racism, but the victims of racism. We human
beings are all colored people of various hues, descendants and
cousins of the same ancient people that inhabited Planet Earth long before
those of us who have survived were even born. There is only one race – the
human race. Such is my own perspective. It is imperative that we learn to live
together – that we learn to share the resources of our planet. It is imperative
for the survival and improvement of the human race that all
political leaders bury the race card.
Note: Azteca America
is a television communications division of Azteca International Corporation of
Mexico City, which division was founded in Los Angeles by Ricardo Salinas
Pliego, a native citizen of Mexico. The CEO of Azteca America is Luis J.
Echarte. Branch television stations are now also located in Miami and in other
cities in the United States of America (Estados Unidos de America).
Guanajuato,
is a quaint Mexican city of about 100,000 residents 250 miles north of Mexico
City. It is noted for its Andalusian-Moorish architecture, cobblestone streets,
silver, gold and frogs. Guanajuato by definition means “village of the frogs.”
It is located in the center of one of the largest silver producing regions of
the world. It is also the home of the family of Tom Blaise de Shepherd, who
were engaged in the mining business during the 1930s as operators of El Cedro
Mining Co. The rich cultural life of Guanajuato is centered in art, music and
theater. The University of Guanajuato and several other institutes of art and
technology are located here. Guanajuato is also the birthplace of
world-renowned artist and controversial political figure Diego Rivera.
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