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Ernest Rodriguez' "Impressions," 1960s-1980s

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Everybody has a story to tell whether it be short or long, tragic of blissful, dull or interesting but one essential requirement is that it be based on the reality of human experience even when we delve into the realm of science fiction.
Our story is not different in this respect. It only differs in situations and events. 
[?] see where shall we bgein? I suppose because our story is really a story of our people who we call La Raza but who our fellow Americans refer to as Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, Spanish, Spanish Americans and in official census [?] as [?] we may as well give some historical reference to our beginnings as race of people. 
You probably remember reading in your grade school history books of the Conquest of Memphis by [?] Corty and his conquistadors. How Corty with a handful of armored horsemen defeated the powerful aztec empire headed by [?] You may have read.

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Everybody has a story to tell whether it be short or long, tragic of blissful, dull or interesting but one essential requirement is that it be based on the reality of human experience even when we delve into the realm of science fiction. Our story is not different in this respect. It only differs in situations and events. [?] see where shall we bgein? I suppose because our story is really a story of our people who we call La Raza but who our fellow Americans refer to as Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, Spanish, Spanish Americans and in official census [?] as [?] we may as well give some historical reference to our beginnings as race of people. You probably remember reading in your grade school history books of the Conquest of Memphis by [?] Corty and his conquistadors. How Corty with a handful of armored horsemen defeated the powerful aztec empire headed by [?] You may have read.