Message: 1
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:43:16 -0000
From: "johnnylachinges" <johnnylachinges@yahoo.com>
Subject: who killed the chicano/a? (a sad tale)

once upon a time the chicano movement meant something. it was the
root of empowerment to the gente of e.l.a. those were the days when
self-help graphics was formed. there was a common ground in the
community, coming together as a raza to fight for what was right.
students organized high school walk-outs, familias joined together at
anit-war protests, gorilla art was taken to the streets because there
were no walls willing to hang non white work. self-help was born of
the blood, sweat and tears of many people who fought to get what
little they had. now flash forward 30 years and what you've got are
the pampered generation who hide under the guise of the "mexica
movement," they took aztlan and renamed it anahuac. they snipped the
cord to chicanismo and wear trensas or dreds, they speak of
spirituality and defy the european blood that runs through their
veins. why did they kill the chicano/a? they needed their own
identity, something to call their own. was it because their parents
were either too busy using their chicano history to write books or
earn a ph.d.? were their needs ignored? were they were sheltered and
spoiled? what do chavalitios do when left alone, they play in the
dirt and destroy stuff they didn't create. that, mi amigos, is whose
hands we find ourselves in today. mari-sold-out-the-chicano torres
and her mexica movement morons have planted their pale brown nalgas
on the vacant board seats of self-help graphics. gomer ram-ear-ass is
the first. what next, tear down la virgin from the parking lot and
put up a statue of quetzal. this is as trieste as it can get. no
wonder e.l.a. doesn't have the bolas to fight off the onslaught of
gentrification vultures heading in from the west. fuck it, i hope the
mother ship comes back in 2012 and takes these pobre mexica souls to
be joines with their aztec warriors on some far off tortilla shaped
planet.