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<p>We can no longer refer to Superman as an “Illegal Alien!”</p>
<p>Well, maybe “illegal,’ but not alien.</p>
<p>We owe this political gesture to Sen. Tony Mendoza (D) from Artesia, who introduced SB432 this summer and Gov. Jerry Brown, with no fanfare, in one stroke of his mighty pen, made it mandatory to remove the term from the California Labor Code.<br>
Andy Porras
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<p>Come on, everybody, admit that El Chapo is on your mind.</p>
<p>Maybe you’re even on his payroll! Just kiddin,’ just kiddin.’</p>
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<p>The day we buried my father a group of people came to our house to thank him for unifying them.</p>
<p>The men and women, unaware of his passing, had come to say thanks to an early activist who left behind a legacy of service to others. In this last effort of his life, he had encouraged them to develop a petition amongst their neighbors then attend a city hall meeting and air their problems of illegal dumping near their homes.</p>
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<p>Cinco de Mayo.</p>
<p>The mother of all misunderstood, misquoted, misinterpreted and maligned of holidays.</p>
<p>It’s bad enough that American suds sellers hijacked the hell out of the “holiday,” now we’re even having to re-educate some of our own Chiacna/o/Latina/o masses thanks in part to our obscured Eurocentric form of education.</p>
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<p>It may have been the biggest American Land Grab since the coming of Columbus.</p>
<p>And for those early Spanish-speaking inhabitants of California, for example, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was as good as the countless of Indian Treaties the U.S. issued. In other words, to quote a Native American of the day, “they are not worth the paper they are printed on.”</p>
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<p>Almost nobody, including some teachers, in a typical U.S. History class would guess that a Hispanic naval war hero turned down a Republican Party’s plea to lure him into becoming the party’s nominee for the presidency.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, on a vacation to Spain, in search of his roots, the reluctant hero was encouraged to remain in the motherland as public support for him to ascend to the throne swelled courtesy of the press.</p>
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<p><em>I am with you still – I do not sleep.”</em></p>
<p>Thus goes a traditional Native American poem worth knowing as Uncle Sam tips his stovepipe hat to its Native American population during November, Native American History month.</p>