How a 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement | Retro Report
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Thank you to all those veteranos that stood up for yourself and future generations of chicanos
Its crazy my grandma told me they felt ashamed to be mexican and she was 5. But my father's generation was proud. I believe its the chicano movement that brought that pride back .
Mexicans should be proud of their rich culture. But the illegal ones should be deported.
Yup and it jst wasnt there it was happening all over the aztlan! (southwest u.s.)colorado, arizona, nuevo mexico and tejas! We marched! Xikano power!💪🏽🇲🇽🇺🇸🤎🏜️🪶
Things like "conspiracy to disrupt the schools" is just another way of saying "You don't have the right to free speech or protest"
Hi Brandon, Thanks for your comment -- it's so nice to see you consistently watching and reacting to our videos. :)
@@RETROREPORT Of course! Your documentary series with New York Times opened my eyes to a lot of things, and I hope RetroReport gets a lot of new viewership soon. The team and all the productions are very under-rated, but it's also good that you're on PBS now!
@brandondavidson4085 students don't in fact have full free speech on campus. Nor do they deserve it. Private schools of course, but students come to universities in the first place for specific classes choose beforehand. They don't have the right to disrupt other students and be catered to as if they're particularly special.
I was born in 1966 and growing up I listened to Esteban Jordan amongst other Mexican American (Chicano) bands and somewhat understood the hardships those generations endured.
An excellent new summary-video of an important chapter in the history of civil and Chicano rights. We will continue to share this history with students at Universities and secondary schools. Thank you and se puede to Retro Report and producer Victor Cuoto!
It was actually Scott Michels who produced this amazing and important Retro Report film and we're all so pleased with the way it turned out. Thanks for your kind words!
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Muchas Gracias professor Castro, Cesar Chavez and all the raza for giving us our culture back and more rights for our future generations!! VÍVAAA LA RAZA!! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
😂😂😂😂😂
They Shall Never, Ever Deprive US of our Culture, our Dignity and our Pride!! VMC 🇲🇽🇲🇽
😂 The corrupt mexican government is worse lol has anything changed? The corrupt Latin American governments keep making us migrate to the USA to be exploited
I am Black and grew up in Los Angeles during the 60s. I remember how glad we were when we saw the Chicano students fighting for their rights. Though the history was different, most of us had to deal with the same treatment in school. So we were inspired by "Viva la raza" hitting East Los Angeles.
Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you for keeping Chicano history alive!
Thanks so much for your comment :) Glad you enjoyed the video
My mom went to Lincoln high..she wore her barret proudly
My third grade elementary school teacher made fun of my last name. In fact, he made it into a song and sang it in front of the class, accompanied with his guitar. The whole class laughed with delight. As one of few Latinos in my school, I was bullied, beaten up, and constantly ridiculed. The teachers did nothing. And I couldn't go home and complain as teachers were to be respected. So I dealt with it from elementary school into middle school and it was horrendous. 😪
No one deserves that.
Thank you for sharing your story.
I'm sorry...can't imagine how that was pero hopefully you didn't let them steal your identity away....🇲🇽🇲🇽
😢
Thank you for sharing,
Wish I could've been your classmate, so that cold-hearted teacher had to sing two songs.
How was he able to go to sleep every night. Hope he asked Hod for forgiveness
Blessings
Viva La Raza
Awesome! I never knew this. I live here on the Northern Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, NM. Its always inspiring to learn US history like this. And your right sir there is still a lot of inequality but it is getting better. I will be graduating in May 2024. I will be the 2nd college graduate in my family!!
I was in third grade in 1968 and I was bullied spit on and ridiculed for the way you dressed or spoke you were singled out. There have been changes and I didn’t let that stop me as an adult I’m successful in my life
Thank you for your courage mi gente. Sooo proud of you!!!
Sadly, we are often still left out of the conversation. The educational system still leaves out Latino voices, latino stories and history. Schools and administrators fail to advocate for these students. The media shows little interest in our stories, and Hollywood barely glances at the latino community, its interested in our money, not our stories.
Who fault is that? Latinos don’t care about their own representation always fighting for either blacks or whites put never Latinos. Smh
History Repeating itself in America this Roevember!
Chicano and I’m brown and proud
gringos see you as a mexican, nothing else
I wonder if the walkouts were in some way connected to the student uprising in Europe in 1968, or if it was purely inspired by the Civil Rights and anti-war movement?
Thank you and all power
I grew up on that corner on clela Avenue in the 90s. ✊🏽
My mom was a proud brown barret..I can remember her with others at rallys
Beautiful video!
Great doc! 💪👍
Viva la raza mexicana, vivan los chicanos brown pride
Fascist.
THIS should be mandatory for all west coast public schools. I was NEVER taught this history as a hispano in california.
Hello I'm trying to get the word out about a Mexican American CHiCANO running for Congress name Tim Sanchez if he wins he will be the first ever to represent Oakland CA in Congress he has a website so if anybody wants to Donate to him please Do thank you gracias
Gracias, I went to check out his website.. I wanted to support him. But he's another Democrat trying to Hurt Raza. All these vatos do is make promises and keep our people down. I'm cool thank you.
Wow! This was a great video.
I wonder if they knew about the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico at that time
"Self Identified" Thats really important to hear one of them say that. You're not born a Chicano/x you have to self identify"
Danng Sal Castro fortold the future of Mexicans @1:40 because the white man did make Mexicans anglo. The moment one of us makes like 40k and above we forget where we came from. The moment migrants from Central and South America come to these lands, all of sudden they gotta come the right way.
The video is about Mexican americans not central or south Americans. The US is Mexican native land not central or south American land. They're not from the US.
Que viva la raza 💪🏽💯🇲🇽
ok ,eddie
thank you!
Dad went to a desegregated middle school and got white girlfriends 😂
Right on!
Right on sister
HOLY TURTLE ISLAND 🌎..WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE 💰
HOLY TURTLE ISLAND WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE 💰
CHICANO POWER ALL THE WAY !!!! WE ARE NOW THE BIGGEST MINORITY IN THE COUNTRY WITH A HUGE LATINO VOTE NOW. WE CAN MAKE A HUGE IMPACT AT THE POLLS. SO GO OUT AND VOTE
The video is about chicanos latinos have nothing to do with Mexican american history
@@lykndeltoro2269chicanos are mexican americans not latinos
@@grifo888 learn to read before replying bendejo
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This is so beautiful🥲
Thank you!
@RETROREPORT no it isn't.
I'm 29 and I experienced this same thing in a middle school I went to where it was the main majority of white kids a few Hispanics and Asians. I'd get into a lot of fights with the older whites because I was brown and poor.
JUST REMEMBER OUR CULTURE IS 1000S.OF YEARS OLD HERMANOS MEXICANAMERICANS OUR CULTURE ALWAYS SAVE US DON'T EVER LET IT FADE AWAY FROM YOUR HEARTS. THE AZTECS, MAYAS , TOTONACA, ZAPOTECA ,MIXTECA OLMECA ETC.ETC.LIVE IN US WE ARE THEIR DECEDENT'S.
Mayas from Mexico only. We split into nations hundreds of years ago.
@@lykndeltoro2269I don’t see the difference we’re all the same why can’t we just enjoy each culture and bring more harmony. To be fair Central America was part of Mexico at one point it’s just lines on a map.
@@GerardoNava-b6o you don't want to see it because you all have no culture or history that's why you appropriate ours. They were part of new Spain after independence they became their own nations.
@@GerardoNava-b6ofurther more what those people have to do with chicanos? Those people are new to the US. This isn't their history culture or identity it's wild you all actually try to say Mexican american history includes zerotes Centro Americanos geez
I dont think assimilation should be forced but should be highly encouraged. We are one nation and should fall into one nation but when we don’t assimilate we become more divided.
Chicano subculture originated from the counter culutre movement of the hippies and the beatniks. All that cool shit the mexicans learn from came from that era.
I'm Asian but this really touch me.
😎🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🙏we are Strong and proud.
What 9+10?
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Que viva La Raza!!✊🏽
The Chicano joined forced with the black panthers. They really tried this shit with Mexicans also. This is what black people went thru.
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It's too bad we didn't see more teachers who bucked the system as it was and encourage Hispanic students (most of whose families actually arrived here legally back then, btw) to do their best as we saw dramatized in the movie "Stand and Deliver". (although I knew a lot of the Chicanos I knew at the time hated that movie and they felt teachers like the one Edward James Olmos protrayed were somehow sellouts to white culture, similar to the way blacks and Latinos feel today, only now they are being taught by the system about CRT and that they basically aren't interested in learning anything so they stopped testing them in many California schools and give them automatic A's as long as they come to class occasionally....)
Come to of it, I think the movie WAS about this teacher. It's been awhile since I saw it. But this kind of protest for something that really MEANS something to the community and not like the UCLA pro-Hamas "protests" which seems to me more like well-to-do kids who crave something meaningful to do with their time. You'd think they'd quit school and join the Peace Corps instead. Go to the Mideast and protest THERE (if they'll have them).
So this battle was fought and won, and now the Far Left has done their best to destroy everything that Chicanos fought so hard for by turning the current public schools into a system for radicalization and not to teach kids anything anymore but gender fluidity. California went from number 3 in education to the bottom 2 nationwide in the last 40 years under Democratic policies. No wonder they are losing Latino support. Even Black support.
@@paulaharrisbaca4851 true.
Brown pride
Si Se Puede
I am an ignorant white person who wants to learn. Is the term Chicanos purely for Americans of Mexican descent or does it apply to other Spanish speaking peoples? Also I am a historian who would like to learn more about the Chicano movement. So please suggest books on the topic😀.
I’m happy to hear that you want to I learn more about the movimiento. Chicanos are people of Mexican descent. Yet, it could evolve to include all Latino people due to the interracial relationships. Consider reading “The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta.
awesome thanks for replying. I figured that there was cross over due to interracial marriage. I just always want to make sure that I get the terminology right. I'll add the book you suggested to my reading list.
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@@vdsilva6806no it can't I latinos need to find their own term. They're not Mexicans. Chicanos are Mexican americans not latinos.
@@barbarastorrey9270chicano means Mexican american once you mix with other people you're no longer chicano. Only Mexicans can be chicanos. The US used to be Mexican land not latino land.
@@lykndeltoro2269 I stand corrected Carnal. Yet, we need to include Latinos in the mix. When I went to college, we had huge battles with Latino students who wanted to be part of our MECHA organization, but refused to be involved because they did not consider themselves Chicanos. The organization had to be called MECHA- Raza Unida to become an inclusive organization for all students of Latino descent.
❤2023 Book. Teaching white supremacy by Donald Yacovan. They stopped teaching white supremacy in public schools 1776-1965 due to Martin Luther King and Malcom X
They stopped teaching white supremacy because of communist Marxist? Hmm….interesting
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Now they think they are whyte
The fact they call themselves Chicanos just makes me cringe
@@cornbisque agreed.
Chicanismo is repackaged Anglo-American settler colonialism, it's anti-indigenous erasure.
Those student demands on the first page alone were both ludicrous and way to open-ended. No wonder they got rejected for the most part. Having bilingual teachers should only be used for bridging communication gaps. The common language across the whole country should be taught.
Exactly
My Nono from Portugal came here and worked in the coal mines in PA. He died of lung cancer. He taught himself the language here and never demanded people speak his language
I was in the 4th grade I remember my dad taking us to eat tacos and see what was going on At laguna Park with in an hour the helicopters started shouting with their loud speakers. This is an illegal assembly everybody, please disperse then here comes the LAPD the sheriffs shooting tear gas at everybody. My dad grabbed me and my siblings, and we ran for the hills.im now 63 years old and i marched at the 50 th moratorium
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1975 Downey east middle school 6th grad to 9th grade , I remember teachers always telling me to sit in the rear of the class room. I remember Calvin Chung, we would make fun of the students up front on English and math class. The teacher would yel at the white kids and she would say, those kids in the back are going to work for you. I remember 2012 to 2020. I worked in Jeffersonville indiana the birth place of the KKK.. I meet ex-Klan members which they knew what they did was wrong, as if that teacher was there, if she was alive. I then worked in Shepardville Kentucky which Donald trump was elected , remember Walmart a lady telling me to go back? I asked where Mexico .. Wow, if felt like I was in Downey Cal 1970. Well, today.. Chicano Beverly Hills Downey California , I speak Spanglish with family and friends and work and bus suites, English only.
The KKK didn’t originate in Indiana and those KKK anymore scumbags are basically nonexistent now so stop trying to capitalize as a victim and stop complaining about the past and realize that America is the land of opportunity for all people and if you hate the USA and want to make Mexico or another country your home then you’re free to leave if you’re unsatisfied with your life in America.
Before you go, especially if you’re planning on moving to Mexico, look into the cities with the highest murder rates in the world and you’ll see that about 5-6+ are in Mexico and the political corruption makes Chicago look like Sweden.
The USA isn’t perfect but the complaints about the supposed racism, especially when it’s about decades ago, that BLM and so many other groups have been bitching about for years is an illusion that weak people use as a crutch to lean on when they are disappointed and rather than working smarter the next time to make it work out the best they can do is blame white people and very few Mexican and Latino people who are citizens or not think this way but are great people who work hard and they contribute to America rather than complaining like the anti American crybabies who act like they’re victims.
It’s pathetic to see these so called activists and academics cry about the past and portray the US as racist without any context of the rest of the world, which is a worse place to live or else millions of people would not risk their lives for the opportunity to live and work here, and The NY Times staff writers who put together these Retro Reports are the ones who are so filled with hatred for America and their entire lives have been gravy compared to the people who are actually working with their hands or building a business rather than the BS they report on after six years of college and their indoctrination to resent America for $300,000 of tuition they now want the government to pay back their student loans but they can’t be found to have the government pay back the concrete or other blue collar small business contractors who bought a truck or equipment which is a million times more valuable than their BS gender studies degree.
Enough said and I'm sure most people will hate this response but at least it is honest…
never want this history to be forgotten, it's important it isn't
who here from ms robs class