When Mexican “Soldiers” Saved a “Community” from an America Police Station
You can’t make this stuff up:
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David Rico Jr. (left), Irene Mena (center) and David Rico (right) are members of the Brown Berets de Aztlan.SAN DIEGO — The San Diego neighborhood of Barrio Logan celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Chicano Park on Saturday. The park is under the on-ramp to the Coronado Bridge near downtown San Diego. It’s considered a legacy of the Chicano Power movement. A group called the Brown Berets has been a big part of that movement since the 1960s.
Maintenance crews trim the grass of Chicano Park. Bright, colorful murals adorn concrete pillars that soar up to the freeway up above. Mothers stroll by holding children and shopping bags.
Before the 1960s, rows of houses stood here. They belonged to working class Latino families. But the families were pushed out and the homes were torn down to make way for a freeway and the Coronado Bridge.
City officials wanted to build a police substation on the remaining parcel of land – that’s when the people of Barrio Logan united.
“My name is Irene Mena. I’m 81 years old. I am the mother of the Brown Berets.”
The Brown Berets served as the paramilitary arm of the Chicano Power movement in Barrio Logan during the 1960s and 1970s. Mena and her sons helped preserve what was left of the community. She still wears her brown beret despite some moth holes. As a youngster she saw her family being ordered to move.
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Brown Berets of Barrio Logan Unite To Protect Community
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Well, one has to admire them for standing up for Barrio Bedbug, although a ragtag contingent of 100 Mechista radicals, is NOT going to change the equation, nor manifest destiny of the Anglo Saxon race to hold onto American territory for Americans.
These soldiers of Aztlan, perpetuate the Mexican myth of entitlement in perpetuity, to those things which are exclusively American. If one were to follow their paradigm, entire neighborhoods of obvious Mexican nationals now surrounding my former high school–which were once exclusively Anglo-Saxon– would have remained that way.
Chicano power should be channeled toward advancing “La Raza” as part of the Second Mexican Revolution, in Mexico–not here.
I am sure the people of this family are fine people, they just happen to represent the vanguard of a movement which seeks to extinguish the Anglo-Saxon patrimony to this land and for that, their plight cannot be sanctioned.