Author: JulioSueco
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Peregrinos de Aztlán
Well I’ve been slacking. I was forced upon a swath the size of the Congress Library of work to do, and what did I do today? Slack, that’s right ese! so yeah, and my own personal protestant guilt tormentor from Queen Elizabeth’s time is beating the living crap of any shred of self-steem that still…
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Ditch the Logan Act!
I have always wondered why the mexican government hasn’t really taken advantage of the bilingual population that it has alongt its 3000 kilometer long border con los gabachos. I mean it’s an increible asset right? people who actually understand bilateral communication, but no, few, like counted in the fingers of a hand, can say they…
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We are
I Xican@ Shall nothing to do About losers and winners -with that 1848 date long ago come to pass it has That bloody threshold birthing — Crieth the child hast — that now Breathes new life And suckles the milk and honey Of the magic corn From whence nurture and nourishment cometh Strong and vital…
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Future issues facing the Xican@ culture
I see three pressing issues that the Xican@ must face soon, or in the near future. 1.- Not all Xican@s have spanish or derive pride in the ideology which infuses nationalistic hues in the mexican soul; some are very resistant to the whole concept of mexican as we know it to be, some are still…
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dualities in bilingual speakers
So there are dualities in Xicano bilingualism. However, I believe that what am about to divulge here covers pretty much trilinguals and quatrilinguals as well because in essence that which I have in mind is language shifting that is, adjusting one’s way of speech according to one’s environment. So it does not matter if Xicanos,…
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Spanish and Xicanismo
Spanish has always been a problem in Aztlán. Though am second guessing this problem is slowly turning a leaf in the collective concious in as much as Native Americans are more and more preferring to be addressed as that or have that as part of their lives. Geeeeez, even my second generation mexican american cousins…
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Nada
Passively scouring the media Sifting through human remains Am bombarded my eyes shot red Left riddled with half-cooked notions I trod on in ether all teared Through the bardwired wide world web Seeking not knowing what Respite from the pain perhaps Of seeing all those deadly aims I stand idle in oceans of hate Watching…
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Luther in Me
My awareness One moment to another Measured by the morning sun Finished by the nightly stars Skirrs like the wind that fills my lungs I sense no motion Only conmotion I dread the passing of the hours Making me feel pointless as I awake and it’s 7 o’clock already.
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t-90:sd at 2am
crunching metal twisting engine sounds that promise clear blue skies on a loft out there.
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Swing’in it by
The clouds were in a hurry today. They moved like on a call. Giving out a radiant white look, they were cumulus on a majestic trek. I saw the wind too shake the electric wires hanging midair between the sky and the ground. A green covered landscape peppered my sight with pines trees and a…
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That one dawn
That night spelled out so many things, like a petate strewn on the floor. My brain lay idle awaiting answers. I couldn’t figure A from Z to be frank, and I was. Frank’s the name. I was born in Aztlan. And the rays of the dawn broke not only my concentration, it shattered my soul.…
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Barrio Warriors
I haven’t the slightest idea who came up with such a catchy name but let me tell you, it ain’t good. It is supposed to resonate in the mind of the gringo and it probably will. I can imagine some republican speech writer coming up with it in some smokey republican board room saying it…