MEXICA (Meh-shee-kah) is the original Nahuatl (the so-called Aztec language) way of pronouncing Mexican, Mexicano, and Chicano. The Mexica was the last of our great Anahuac civilizations. It is the civilization from which we can rebuild our Anahuac nation. This is much in the same way that Italians base their pride in Rome, the civilization that was the height of their culture. Italians also have Greek, German, Arabic and other components to their heritage, but they choose their Roman heritage as the ideal that defines them as a people. The Mexica are the ideal of what we can reconstruct from our Anahuac heritage!
ANAHUAC (Ah-nah-wahk) is the true name of our nation. Anahuac includes Mexico, “Central America”, and the so-called Western and Southern U.S. (stolen in 1803 & 1848). We are all part of the Anahuac civilization that gave us the Olmec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan-Toltec, Maya and Mexica (Aztec) civilizations. The Mexica part of our Anahuac heritage is how we can reconstruct ourselves as a Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) nation. We have historic, cultural, linguistic, and racial factors that make us one Anahuac nation, which includes all of our civilizations and cultures. The Mexica heritage gives us a history, a language, a theology, and a study base from which we can rebuild all of our Anahuac heritage.
NICAN TLACA is our Nahuatl language way of saying “We people here”, in reference to all of us who are Indigenous to Cemanahuac (what Europeans call “the Western Hemisphere”). Nican Tlaca refers to all of our people, Full-blood or Mixed-blood. Being Mixed-blood (so-called Mestizo) does not stop us from being Nican Tlaca, no matter how “white” one looks. The shades and physical looks of our Mixed-blood people are just scars from the rape of our nation. These scars do not define us! Our core blood, our Pre-European history, our heritage, and our land are all what define us!
“CENTRAL AMERICA” was artificially created in 1823. Before that date we were all part of Anahuac. Once you know the true and complete history of our people, this idea of “Central American” republics will be understood for the frauds that they are. The Mexico and “Western United States” ideas are also a fraud. The only truth is Anahuac—one Anahuac.
NOT HISPANIC Hispanics are the Spaniards, the people of Spain. We are not Spaniards! Calling ourselves “Hispanic” denies us our true Nican Tlaca Mexica Anahuac identity, history and heritage. It enslaves us to the interests of the “Spanish” white world.
Another way to look at this is by looking at the people of African heritage in the “USA”. They are not called Britanic because they have British surnames. They are not called English because they speak English. And they are not considered or called European because they have some “white” blood. If anyone called them or they called themselves Britanic, English, or European (no matter how light they are) it would be seen as a joke or ridicule.
For those same reasons we refuse to accept Hispanic or Latino. We are obviously not European or “White” collectively. The European crimes of invasion, the theft of our resources and land, Genocide, cultural castration, and the racial rape of our people do not define who we are as a nation. Their slavery-enforced surnames, religion, language, or culture do not define us. They do not define us in their criminal squatter colonialist interests! We define ourselves in our collective Nican Tlaca interests—the interests that will liberate our people!
NOT LATINO Latinos are the Latins: Southern Europeans—the Spaniards, French, and Portuguese. Calling ourselves “Latino” makes us cultural slaves of Europeans. It is cultural suicide. It is cultural genocide. It betrays our Nican Tlaca ancestors. The European “Latins” of the “Americas” is not who we are. We are not Europeans! We are Nican Tlaca!.
NOT RAZA and NOT MESTIZO – “Raza” is not an identity. “Raza” is basically the same thing as using the Eurocentric term “Mestizo”—it takes pride in Spanish blood (what little or nothing that we may have of it) and puts an ignorant shame in our Nican Tlaca blood and culture. These two concepts are supposed to define us as a blend of two cultures. If that is true, then why is it that only Spanish names, Spanish language, European religion and European history and culture are what dominates our lives. Where’s the blend in all of this? What has happened to us as the Nican Tlaca people of Anahuac in this blend?
Jewish people, Italians, Turks, and the French are all very well known Mixed-bloods, but they don’t let that dilute their ethnic identity. They know who they are. They are proud of who they are. They don’t speak of themselves as a “mixed” people. They are Jews, Italians, Turks, and French; they are not “Mestizos” in their identity.
In Mexico “Dia de la Raza” is celebrated on October 12—Columbus Day. Imagine that! We are celebrating the rape of our mothers, the rape of our nation, the enslavement of our people.
EUROPEAN & CRIOLLO are basically the same thing. These are “White” people who are on our land, the squatters and colonialists. Europeans can continue to call themselves “Canadian”, “American”, Cuban, or Argentine but their homeland is still Europe and they are still trespassing on our land. A Criollo is someone of “authentic Spanish-European” descent who is still on our land exploiting our people, our resources and our wealth.
MEXICA MOVEMENT is leading the way with actions that defend our people, actions that provide a vision for the liberation of our people. We declare ourselves independent from the Hispanic-Latino European colonialism and racism that has enslaved us for over 500 years.