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Liberate Your Heart, Mind and Soul
By Alicia Lopez June 2, 2011
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Alicia Lopez runs "Trucha Gear"
and writes poetry.
Photo: Eduardo Barraza
and writes poetry.
Photo: Eduardo Barraza
Published by the Hispanic Institute of Social Issues in Phoenix, Arizona
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What have we become as Nican Tlaca people?
We call ourselves Latinos, Mestizos… we are partaking in our own
genocide as we accept the whiteness that has controlled our lives for
hundreds of years...continuing to live in fear, fear to be ourselves
Ashamed to be brown...keeping our minds closed ...false history being
told allowing ourselves to consume all the poison that we have been
fed since our youth
Our people need to stop running from the truth! The lies have
poisoned our minds!
Keeping our people ignorant, fake borders dividing us from our own
people tired of all this evil!!History books keeping our history a
mystery.
Television portraying us as violent, keeping our ancestors silent.
Engraving in our minds that we were savages
Our minds have been damaged
Take off that blindfold allow yourself to see! Uncover your ears allow
yourselves to hear…get over the fear
Who are you? Who am I? This question haunts my mind, as I grew up
I was blind
I did not know our books had been burned, our minds torn, our hands
worn
Where did we come from?
We did not come from a place called 'Mexico" we did not come from a
place called 'America"
We come from this land! Here where we stand! This is Anahuac!
Let's demand this is our land!
Let's remove the scar, know who you are
Liberate your heart…
it’s important to know…
Liberate your soul…
Research you will see all you will find…
Liberate your mind…
And let's not stop…
Let's Liberate Anahuac…
Liberate your heart, Liberate your soul, Liberate your mind… Liberate
Anahuac!
Alicia Lopez ©
We call ourselves Latinos, Mestizos… we are partaking in our own
genocide as we accept the whiteness that has controlled our lives for
hundreds of years...continuing to live in fear, fear to be ourselves
Ashamed to be brown...keeping our minds closed ...false history being
told allowing ourselves to consume all the poison that we have been
fed since our youth
Our people need to stop running from the truth! The lies have
poisoned our minds!
Keeping our people ignorant, fake borders dividing us from our own
people tired of all this evil!!History books keeping our history a
mystery.
Television portraying us as violent, keeping our ancestors silent.
Engraving in our minds that we were savages
Our minds have been damaged
Take off that blindfold allow yourself to see! Uncover your ears allow
yourselves to hear…get over the fear
Who are you? Who am I? This question haunts my mind, as I grew up
I was blind
I did not know our books had been burned, our minds torn, our hands
worn
Where did we come from?
We did not come from a place called 'Mexico" we did not come from a
place called 'America"
We come from this land! Here where we stand! This is Anahuac!
Let's demand this is our land!
Let's remove the scar, know who you are
Liberate your heart…
it’s important to know…
Liberate your soul…
Research you will see all you will find…
Liberate your mind…
And let's not stop…
Let's Liberate Anahuac…
Liberate your heart, Liberate your soul, Liberate your mind… Liberate
Anahuac!
Alicia Lopez ©
