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El Laberinto, 1971-1987
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Hey Hey Chicano y Chicana wherever you may be escucha nosotros somos diferentes we don't have to assimilate We don't have to "become" We ARE Long before Cortez we were "Americans" This continent is our continent. Tu espiritu es tuyo no lo vendas that is what will carry me and you through Everything else we don't need for we shall build halgo que sea nuestro Hey Chicano y Chicana despierta the next brown generation necesita something that is their own-un pueblo. AZTLAN. antonio ravala ESCAPE Last week, I had been white ........we were friends Yesterday, I was Spanish .......we talked.. once in a while. Today, I am Chicano .......you do not know me. Tomorrow, I rise to fight .......and we are enemies el aima YA "Mexican American" Poem My inferiority complex reached a new low today. a mere 20% of Inferiority. Only once did I feel I was not "with it" and only twice that I didn't know "what was what" in life, Only once that "white was right" and not once, not once that MY Spanish was a "handicap" If things keep up I will be gone into an insignificant I% of those Mexican Americans who "Made it" and metamorphosize (read sell) myself into a Brown hamburger eating Anglo who has now forgotten that tortillas con carne was SOUL. and EL Barrio was home. Ahora I'll clean my brown ass with S & H green stamps and feel EQUAL with eveyrone as I've left my mind behind. a. zavala BASTA! 6
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Hey Hey Chicano y Chicana wherever you may be escucha nosotros somos diferentes we don't have to assimilate We don't have to "become" We ARE Long before Cortez we were "Americans" This continent is our continent. Tu espiritu es tuyo no lo vendas that is what will carry me and you through Everything else we don't need for we shall build halgo que sea nuestro Hey Chicano y Chicana despierta the next brown generation necesita something that is their own-un pueblo. AZTLAN. antonio ravala ESCAPE Last week, I had been white ........we were friends Yesterday, I was Spanish .......we talked.. once in a while. Today, I am Chicano .......you do not know me. Tomorrow, I rise to fight .......and we are enemies el aima YA "Mexican American" Poem My inferiority complex reached a new low today. a mere 20% of Inferiority. Only once did I feel I was not "with it" and only twice that I didn't know "what was what" in life, Only once that "white was right" and not once, not once that MY Spanish was a "handicap" If things keep up I will be gone into an insignificant I% of those Mexican Americans who "Made it" and metamorphosize (read sell) myself into a Brown hamburger eating Anglo who has now forgotten that tortillas con carne was SOUL. and EL Barrio was home. Ahora I'll clean my brown ass with S & H green stamps and feel EQUAL with eveyrone as I've left my mind behind. a. zavala BASTA! 6
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