“LATINX” STUPID AMERICA WITH ATTITUDE. AMERICA, YOU DID NOT GIVE UP ON US!?

My concern is about the integrity of the Latino culture and genre. It seems to me consistently, that the poor is who lights the candle and the ignorant who gets the miracle.

William Hanhausen

My constant goal is to promote Latino Art as American Art. The vehicle of a genre perspective that is not in solitude but aware of its uniqueness. To create an appetite in all Americans to understand why this culture is so important to the history and evolution of our country. Swamped by a supernatural evil force, the genre, is not equipped or prepared to deal with. Then there are those thoughts which are too numerous to list and just to awful - shameful to name.

The case in full... “Latinx” ...a popular believe to look through the back mirror and not through the windshield!

Founding your actions in what you heard and not on what you see, the term “Latinx” is not using the head and only going by gut. Been this the reason why the term is stupid and totally wrong. It is a trendy and popular overleveraging and overvalued term. A minority inside a minority that is not using their head!

In Nicolás Bejarano, Colombian born American Latino, podcast “The Art Salon”. He talks against the term “Latinx” and the critical theory. He enlightens why the word “Latinx” is wrong, and why the term “Latino” is the correct representation. Remarking that “Latino” covers the entire variety of genders and races.

The term “Latinx” doesn’t align with the “Latino” narrative. It is greatly used by not native-born Latinos, that usually are not Spanish speakers and not capable to read or write in Spanish. In a few words, not a member of the community.

He calls “Latinx” the “Erosion of reason’. Exploring deeply into the term, and what he believes to be one of the most useless additions to the English language. Been this one of the symptoms of a larger problem brewing in America.

He describes the roots of the adoption of the term “Latinx” and its unviability. The term suggests a younger generation with college education, but the truth is, and he appoints the existence of data that proves that only 3% of Hispanics describe themselves as “Latinx” and 1% of them are college educated. That, is basically nothing.

In fact, there is substantial evidence that the Chicano and Hispanic com- munity rejects it and doesn’t identify with it.

If we follow this trail, “Latino Art” as a genre, will die in less than 25 years. We have to keep in mind that “you have to live it, to be part of it”. Only artists that experi- ence the everyday life, despite if they were born or not in this country can be consid- ered part of the genre. Artists that juxta- pose all the visible and invisible to impact the expression of their communication format and better grasp of the present suf- fering voice.

Consider that for about 245 years we have suppressed the importance of Latino history and for the past 100 or so, we have not been aware of the cultural complexity of our Latin-American inheritance. What about volition been seen as inferior acts of the will who’s occurrence makes the difference between voluntary and invol- untary actions?

Those interesting artists who keep us guessing — those, who to borrow Stephen Sondheim’s phrase, “Give us more to see” are the ones most likely to endure.

We, they and us, cannot be represented by such a miserable term.

"Stupid America" by Abelardo 'Lalo' Delgado

Stupid America, see that Chicano
with a big knife on

his steady hand.
He doesn’t want to knife you

he wants to sit on a bench and carve Christ figures but you won’t let him. Stupid America, hear that Chicano
shouting curses on the street he is a poet without pa-

per and pencil
and since he cannot write

he will explode. Stupid America, remember that Chicano flunking

math and English he is the Picasso of

your western states,
but he will die with one thousand

masterpieces hanging only from his mind.