lady_joker
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Dear Mexican: I'm a 60-year-old Chicano and proud. Why do young Chicanos keep imitating blacks? They dress like blacks, talk like blacks, listen to black music and hang with blacks. Aren't they proud of their own culture? Why don't they embrace Hispanic ways and learn about Hispanic history?
Say It Loud! I'm Brown and I'm Proud!
Dear Wab: Your letter is remarkable, porque it simultaneously refutes and validates the fears of gabachos who say Mexicans aren't assimilating into this grand land. As you correctly point out, many Mexican kids in los Estados Unidos embrace African-American culture. No big mystery there ? black culture is American youth culture, and even the wabbiest chamaco wants to keep up with his American-born peers.
But then there are older pendejos like you who retain Mexico's deep-rooted hatred of Afro-anything and inculcate their children with it. The result is racial animosity ? riots at high schools and prisons, gangsters who bump Tupac while bumping off black teens, or mensos like you who find no irony in appropriating James Brown's black-power anthem for a pseudonym.
Many Mexican kids do embrace their mother culture, and that's the problem: instead of seeing blacks and Mexicans as oppressed hermanos, the younger generation of Mexicans simply follows parental cues and bash blacks. Hey, youngsters: Love this country ? love negritos. By the way, Say It Loud, stop using such antiquated terms as "Chicano" and "Hispanic." They're as relevant to the contemporary Mexican-American experience as a daguerreotype.
Say It Loud! I'm Brown and I'm Proud!
Dear Wab: Your letter is remarkable, porque it simultaneously refutes and validates the fears of gabachos who say Mexicans aren't assimilating into this grand land. As you correctly point out, many Mexican kids in los Estados Unidos embrace African-American culture. No big mystery there ? black culture is American youth culture, and even the wabbiest chamaco wants to keep up with his American-born peers.
But then there are older pendejos like you who retain Mexico's deep-rooted hatred of Afro-anything and inculcate their children with it. The result is racial animosity ? riots at high schools and prisons, gangsters who bump Tupac while bumping off black teens, or mensos like you who find no irony in appropriating James Brown's black-power anthem for a pseudonym.
Many Mexican kids do embrace their mother culture, and that's the problem: instead of seeing blacks and Mexicans as oppressed hermanos, the younger generation of Mexicans simply follows parental cues and bash blacks. Hey, youngsters: Love this country ? love negritos. By the way, Say It Loud, stop using such antiquated terms as "Chicano" and "Hispanic." They're as relevant to the contemporary Mexican-American experience as a daguerreotype.
