Comments on: A Chicana Outlook on Ruben Salazar

By: Antonio Perales Fierro

Antonio Perales Fierro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:53:08 +0000

I found this website because I was at the Chicano Moratorium with a lot of Chicanos and Chicanas from Sanjo, from the community and from San Jose State as well. I am originally from Casa Blanca, a Chicano community near Riverside, and I attended elementary schools in both places, k to 2nd grade. The education these racist parasites offered was zilch. But I was bright and bilingual and got hold of my uncle Rudy Perales’ comics in the 1st grade and was a great reader when I returned to Casa Blanca. The teacher was so impressed that she quickly prepared me to narrate the Thanksgiving play which was mostly two puritan girls discussing a possibly dangerous Indian who really was never seen in the play. How like life, no? I put that into my memory bank. Upon my return to Casa Blanca I had scoped out all of the books from 2nd grade to 5th and they were all of them childish babble of the Dick and Jane books: “Look, see Spot run!, run Spot, run!” No wonder I was. A better reader than 10 and 11 year olds, no one was being taught to read! The Rverside white oligarchy needed orange pickers, and the scools stayed segregated until 1965 when a school in Riverside was torched and the Bd. Of Ed.quickly “caved”, but they continued the usual raacist history, etc. We need a social movement with machistas in their place: elsewhere! I am gay and a femiinist and I believe that a lot of our “chicanismo” is dullard machista grandstanding. Patriarchy is a stupid and corrosive impediment to positive change. Look for my HATE CRIMEREVIEW, as part of my XLowrider-Times zine. I intend to kick two famous “activist”s asses. They are MAPISTAS for 30 to 40 years and they are unregenerate homophobic thugs named Steve and Stanley Santos. I have got their number because they are my brothers and I intend to retire these pendejo sell-outs with the image that I give them and not the pretend activist imagen that they carefullly maintain. My tia abuela was Pancho Villa’s esposa: Luz Corral Fierro, and this queer has more revoluionary blood than his criminal and elder abusing gay-baiting pig brothers. I am thedesigner of the Lowrider logo, having worked on LRM Oct. ‘79 to May ‘80and further , Teen Angel is agavacho expoiter and dumb shit, nvermind his simpleton criminal shit. So, yeah I had good reason to goto the Moratorium and was up near the stage when the pigs went berserk and ran to the alley and saw chotas beat innocent raza. Get hip raza , we need to clean house and renew our efforts with more mujeres and gays and lesbians orelse forget the whole thing. The movimiento is for the good of ALL, not just for confused cultural nationalist scum bags such as Steve and Stanley Santos of Fresno. I am outing these babosos they will NOT represent my family with their criminal version of “Hero of the People. Punto! Antonio Perales Fierro

By: Annika

Annika — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:58:44 +0000

And like people said before, I am also angry that his death was never brought to justice. I’ll never pretend to be Chicana/Latina/Hispanic or any of the other appropriate terms, but this is thoroughly ridiculous.

White people stepped on way too many other races during history. Stories like these do not exactly make me proud of my heritage. Also, I’m annoyed by the way history books skate past all those horrible things the Caucasians did.

I wonder how many of the people who edit those books are white?

By: Annika

Annika — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:53:39 +0000

Beautiful post. I’m a middle school white girl, thoroughly of European descent, and somehow, despite living in Los Angeles, where the Caucasians are definitely outnumbered by other nationalities, I only learned about this man through a report I’m writing for Spanish class.
The sad thing is, even though now I know who he is, none of the other people in my grade will.

I think people like him deserve to be mentioned to students, even if it doesn’t happen.

By: Gilberto

Gilberto — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:16:42 +0000

Great information and the pictures are a very important part of our History. This information is imparted to us in higher education, we need to introduce our history during the primary years of our children education. Lets not wait for higher education to come to them, lets educate them Now…very nice job…

By: Tila Guzman

Tila Guzman — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:12:06 +0000

we need more people like him. Que no los Maten!

By: Ruben

Ruben — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:41:23 +0000

Cindy,

Wow. I know I am late to read this post. You see, many years ago my mother first gave me the gift of my name. Then when I was old enough to understand, the story of my namesake, and now, the link to this post. Great pics. I didn’t even know about the stamp. I’m gonna get a whole bunch on Monday.

I’m gonna be a more loyal reader, I promise! Hope you are well, Ms. Lu. I miss you!

By: tin

tin — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:53:55 +0000

Hi Cindylu, it’s been a while since i dropped by your site (shame on me). but i’m glad i stopped today, great post on Salazar, I had been wanting to write about him for a while. I think we Chicanas/os and Mexicanos/as have a long history of committed journalist and social agitator who make use of la palabra. From revolutionaries like Ricardo Flores Magon and his paper Regeneracion (which was actually published in the US for a good while), to Ruben Salazar, and now people like Roberto Rodriguez and Patricia Gonzales of Column of the Americas (online). And I guess people like Chicana/o bloggers too.

Ruben Salazar Vive! La Lucha Sigue!

By: la rebelde

la rebelde — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:54:50 +0000

Thanks for this post, Cindy.

By: Taco Sam

Taco Sam — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:00:36 +0000

Great post. Salazar’s murder still makes me angry, especially the fact that no one was brought to justice. No one paid for this crime, except for us Chicanos who lost a voice, lost a trailblazer.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:30:05 +0000

These words and images have the feel of watching the JFK assassination reels in slow motion. Wish I’d heard this affecting story long ago, in grade school… but I’m glad I’m reading it now. Thank you and well done, Cindy and César.