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When pondering your position on current issues, don’t just think in the moment, fast forward your thinking to take into account things that are happening that might influence how you feel about certain issues, so you don’t pick fights that aren’t worth fighting.  A good example of that is on the issue of “Spanish Only” proposals by State Governments or private companies, and also on the related issue of immigration.  Days before the issuance of this blog, the worst nightmare of White Supremacists came true, there were more colored, including Latino, babies born in the United States than Ang

In the halls of New Braunfels High School, in the parking lots of the same, the cafeteria or actually anywhere on school grounds when I was attending in the late 70’s, Spanish was prohibited.  I think the first time I was dragged into the Principal’s office for the violation of “Speaking Spanish”, it was because I had called my food by its name, out loud and to a friend who from across the table was asking me what I had brought for lunch.  The cafeteria was a rather loud place, so when I responded to him that my mother had packed “tacos” for me, it was with enough force to ensure that he co

The idea for chicanochannel.com and its magazine, Chicano Channel Magazine (CCM), was born from the fact that Chicanos (Mexican-Americans) make up about 60% of all Latinos in the United States, we are the majority population in California and will soon be the majority population in the entire Southwestern United States, including Texas.  So much power, united, yet divided we will fall.  The power, as we saw it, came in two forms, economic in terms of purchasing power and political, because even if we disagree on many things, but if we agree on at least half or more of the issues out there,

Many people tell me that Obama cannot win because people are hating him right now, not just his policies, but the man. I tried to put my finger on the reason for such hate. The biggest complaint I heard was that he was hurting the economy because he put too many regulations on businesses, most of them businesses that got loans from you the taxpayer during the last Depression and for the purpose of making sure that those businesses didn’t bring all of us down again. But, even if