Castro was born in 1974 to Maria Del Rosario "Rosie" Castro and Jessie Guzman one minute before his younger brother Joaquin. Despite Julian being named for his father, his parents never married and separated when the boys were eight, both robbing him of any male role model and leaving him with only an extremely [[socialist]] and [[racist]] maternal influence.<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/09/04/julian-castro-a-radical-revealed/</ref> Castro's mother, in addition to taking the secularized nickname "Rosie" as opposed to her Christian name Maria (Mary) and naming her second son after "a character in the 1967 Chicano ant-Gringo poem 'I am Joaqin,'" was an avid activist of Latino sepratism and contributed to the movement to form an independent Latino nation in Texas named Aztlan.<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/09/04/julian-castro-a-radical-revealed/</ref> Castro's admiration for his mother is evident in his writings:
::"[My mother] insisted that things were changing because of political activism, participation in the system. Maria del Rosario Castro has never held a political office. Her name is seldom mentioned in a San Antonio newspaper. However, today, years later, I read the newspapers, and I see that more Valdezes are sitting on school boards, that a greater number of Garcias are now doctors, lawyers, engineers, and, of course, teachers. And I look around me and see a few other brown faces in the crowd at [Stanford]. I also see in me a product of my mother’s diligence and her friends’ hard work. Twenty years ago I would not have been here…. My opportunities are not the gift of the majority; they are the result of a lifetime of struggle and commitment by adetermined minority. My mother is one of these persons. And each year I realize more and more how much easier my life has been made by the toil of past generations. I wonder what form my service will take, since I am expected by those who know my mother to continue the family tradition. [Emphasis Castro’s]"<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/09/04/julian-castro-a-radical-revealed/</ref>
===Education===
In 2009, Castro ran for Mayor of San Antonio, and was elected with 56.23% of the vote.<ref>http://home.bexar.org/el45A.HTML</ref> As Mayor, he continued his anti-capitalist stance, and showed unwavering support for the [[homosexual agenda]].<ref>http://www.woai.com/articles/woai-local-news-119078/exclusive-mayor-castro-says-texas-should-11434934/</ref> In 2012, he delivered the keynote address at the [[2012 Democratic National Convention]], and demonstrated his extreme [[liberalism]] and [[racism]], both of which were glossed over amidst lavish praise from the [[liberal media]].<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/latino-mayor-to-keynote-dnc-convention/2012/07/31/gJQA3fpqNX_story.html</ref>
Castro resigned as Mayor on July 22, 2014, failing to finish out the term he had pledged to complete by seeking the office, to become the 16th [[Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]].<ref>http://www.ksat.com/content/pns/ksat/news/2014/07/22/councilmemberssaygoodbyetomayorcastro.html</ref> He was the sixth Latino to be named to Obama's cabinet, but the previous five had all resigned at one point or another. Obama's selection of Castro was seen by many as an attempt to increase [[diversity]] in his Cabinet, marking the fourth major point in Castro's career that his race or [[affirmative action]] has been responsible for one of his accomplishments.<ref>Latinos in cabinet: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/obama-joins-julian-castro-hud-promise-delivered-latinos-n169891</ref>
===Similarities to Barack Obama===