Revolutionary ideals & strategics must evolve
Since we as a people are so dense in population and thus diverse, it is hard to project a message that all of our people will understand and agree with. There are so many aspects to Chicanismo & Mexicanismo, that a message will be hard to reach all of us. There needs to be a common demoninator that all of our people can agree with and really understand. Sometimes there is nothing wrong with the solutions and for the most part they are there, but if you have a good message and only a minority of the people understand and believe in it, then there’s a problem with the messenger or the way the message is conveyed.
The problem with most of the messengers is that they engage in intellectual masturbation and talk about the system from a bird’s eye view. They point fingers and say capitalism is the problem or some other system that habors corruption and exploitation, then provide theories on how to fix the system or even overthrow it. Most of these people are college educated and otherwise intellectuals that use terminology that only their peers understand. Not all of the people will understand the message, only the intellectuals will. I’m not proposing that we dumb down our messages, but provide them in a way that everyone can understand without dozing off.
We also have to accept that protests, marches, boycotts don’t work as they used to anymore. They might be helpful in the way to bring attention to a problem or a plight, but that’s the maximum potency such physical activism delivers. We should not expect to see changes from these things, we need to conserve our energy and money into more strategic moves.
Well said!
Rarely have I seen a dialog with meaningful ideas being exposed. I myself am a new generation of Chicano. Out of the 300 million people living in the U.S. Latino’s comprise of 75 million, with in that 75 million the largest minority is from Mexicano origin. I myself am from the so-called Generation Y yet; I am from the micro trend of the Manexo, which is the New Chicano/a generation. We are huge and many of us are of voting statute I believe Mark Penn a political strategist calls us Latino militants. We are a new generation, which believes that the conservation of Nuestra Familia de la Raza is in higher need. We are also much more religious and fixed on understanding the past to safe guard our future. Much of the community I come from is achieving the MEChA philosophy of education. I myself have a PhD from the University of Chicago in Political Science and most likely will be voting for Hillary Clinton. Historically her husband is the only president to appoint many true Chicano/a’s into cabinet office. As an organic intellectual I come from the bottom and know the best of both worlds and I perceive in a different way. If Bill Richards is to be elected by his party I will vote for him but the guy is a genius on international issues so I would rather have him be secretary of defense. As for Barack Obama I guarantee that he will become a new Supreme Court justice when Hillary becomes president. The future looks good for now. Thank you, Manexo
Суперский пост! Блог уже в ридере )
Как там у вас с погодой? Давно не писали
Отличная статья.Респект автору.
THe bottom line is that the paradigm is changing. We all need to step out of the box of scioeconomic factors and geopolitical issues. This is a far more profound current turn of events. You are either a corporate entity, and institution or person. Inherently rampant greed in all forms is rising to the top. Any type of entity is faulted to fail if it is not based on integrity and truth as its root. All forms of government fail, we do not need a majority of institutions that dictate our daily lives. We need to look beyond the intricacies of rooting waste and malfeasance in their failing institutions and just create ideal living situations block by block, town by town,
Centralized govt is OBSOLETE!
You and only you can manifest the world you hold in your heart.