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Dear C.S. Hispanic CommunityYou don’t have to embrace They took over and we werethis, just open up your mind and taught that to assim ilate would beyour heart and see if any of this great for this country.has happened to you or someoneyou know.I’m almost sure that being religious it sounded good and easy Wake up, people, and see the at the time, but lets not forget thebig picture around us. Remember guas and power they had over us.the saying “if you're white you're I still remember living under thealright, if your brown stick threat of “Remember thearound, and if your black step Alamo. As a youngster I neverback.” Aren’t you tired of stick- fully understood the meaning around for counting purposes ing behind this saying but Iby the Dominant white admini- do remember the hate thatstration and now casually re- went with it when it wasmcmbcrcd by Afro-Americans in said. So consequently backtheir fight for a piece of the ‘good then I was afraid to say I wasliving’ pic. The picture is chang- Mexican and for manying for everyone except for the years I remained a silent,brown invisible people: us”.I know this is going to makeafraid individual.We have our own Roots!rsome of you, who think you’ve Call yourself Mexican,make it, mad. But look around Spanish, Indian, Chicano,you and ask some of our people Chicana, Latino, Puertowho made it almost to the top of Ricano, Cubano etc, thatstheir profession and sec that even alright but call your selfnow they’ve been cut off at the Human first. Aren’t youknees by the white dominant tired of being a ‘ stickgroup who has and will always be arounder, a powerless *over them. nobody being forced toFor too many years we have ai- accept the subtleties of thelowed every one to take care ot us. prejudices that go alongwith our everyday lives. Aren’t like them, to act like them, em-Hey people, lets not forget weyou tired of ‘you know who* brace their values, remain invis- have values, beliefs, wants andcomforting you with statements ible except when needed, in ef- needs, out cooperation versusof: “when I was young my best feet, give up our identity and competition, the helping of ourfriend was a Mexican so I know become what they want us to be, community instead of just indi-how you feel or I’m part Indian then some doors do open up for vidual gains.us. Remember what you have readThose doors have conditions and then bring your self and aon the other side. The most im- friend with ideas, and a commit-lovc Mexican food.” Of course portant obstacle being, we are mcnt to the unification of “Ourthis has been used to appease us still at the mercy of their power Raza” to J.T.P.A. - Garfield(and of course you know they don’t look Indian”. But the dumbest or the meanest of all is “Iand we have accepted it.and money. Even the curriculum Center Comer of Wahsatch andWe have allowed them to take in our schools reflects the values Williamette 7 p.m. Dec. 7,1994.our land, our language, our self and the belief of the dominantconfidence, our pride. Think Anglo group and they have beenabout this. If we agree to think passing it on to our children.44Vamos con Dios.Tomasita Ortega
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Colorado Springs Hispania News
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Wed, Nov 30, 1994
Page 11
Full Page
Clipped by
Barbara H.
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