Chicano

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Music doesn’t define a people…but a people that define music

By Frankie Firme

    Chicano music…means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

    To generic “Hispanics” (in particular, those 40 to 60-year-olds who used to be Chicanos, LOL), they figure, “OK…I’ve heard a little El Chicano, Tierra, Malo, Los Lobos, and Santana…I’m grown up now…so what’s the big deal?”

Editorial:

35 years ago when La Prensa San Diego first started publishing, one of our main goals was to influence and improve the education of our children. Without an educated community none of the problems which plague our community would improve. Crime, unemployment, poverty, ghettos, drugs, political persecution, and economic disadvantages would doom Hispanics to second class citizenry unless the community committed to education.

Editorial:

For Mexican Americans, Cinco de Mayo should be a time of honor and the celebration of a great victory. Cinco de Mayo represents our Mexican compatriots’ victory over the superior forces from France. The battle at the Puebla was also a battle between the classes of Mexico, aristocrats against the indigenous population, the poor, the farmers, and the people who were considered commoners.

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; In the mid-sixties, I attended a lecture by Dr. Ernesto Galarza. Someone in the audience asked him why politicos and those in social movements didn’t care about Mexican Americans. Galarza responded that most elected officials that were Democrats cared about Mexican Americans but that we were never their number one priority or even close to it on their do list.</p>

<p><strong>Beyond Chron</strong></p>

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