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Tags: aztec, Chicano, protest, Spain
Knowledge is Power!
I keep a handful of columns from the late Los Angeles Times columnist Ruben Salazar. He was killed in L.A. in 1970 after a tear-gas canister, fired by a sheriff’s deputy, struck him in the head during the National Chicano Moratorium March, a Vietnam War protest.
Not long before he died, Salazar attempted to answer the question of what “Chicano” means.
“A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself,” he began. “He resents being told Columbus ‘discovered’ America when the Chicano’s ancestors, the Mayans and Aztecs, founded highly sophisticated civilizations long before Spain financed the Italian explorer’s trip to the ‘New World.’”*
*From: http://www.rockymountainnews.com
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