In other words, whether we like it or not, Brown Berets are gaining the respect of barrio people at the expense of traditional mores.īut perhaps more importantly, the Mexican-American establishment is finding it more difficult every day to community with barrio Chicanos.īefore we scrap all the social innovations which gave the bato loco hope we should probe the probable consequences. Police chiefs, mayors and other leaders must learn they can no longer discredit a movement by just pointing out that the Brown Berets, or any other militant group, are involved. The importance of this is that a year it would be impossible to find Mexican-American parents hobnobbing with Brown Berets. In the traditionally quiet town of Pomona, for instance, a crowd of Mexican-American parents, not known for their civic participation, recently applauded Brown Beret speakers. This mood is not being helped by our political and law-and-order leaders who are trying to discredit militants in the barrios as subversive or criminal. This may sound scandalously alarming but the mood in the barrio seems to back it up. Recently, a front-page story appeared, in of all places, the Wall Street Journal, which warns of possible violence in the Southwest’s Chicano barrios.Īccording to the newspaper, Jose Angel Guitierrez, a Texas Chicano activist who holds a master’s degree in political science, said that “It’s too late for the gringo to make amends. Stripped of his potential political power-and that, after all, is what barrio and ghetto social innovations produce-the bato loco has no way to go but to the dangerous shell of an anarchistic zoot suiter. Now he knows the heat is on and that such projects are being condemned by political and law-and-order leaders as subversive and money-wasting. But to the bato loco in the barrio this frustration is a luxury which he cannot afford and does not understand.Īll the bato loco knows is that things were looking up for a while and that unlike his zoot-suiter predecessor he could get involved in such projects as the Neighborhood Adult Participation Project. It is easy to understand the silent majority’s frustration with high taxes, disrespectful militancy and seemingly unending social innovations. Choice of puzzles: Our irregular sudoku were designed and graded so that at the same level the higher the puzzle number, the more difficult the solution, with this nuance that in our classification, at equal levels and numbers, symmetrical puzzles are a little easier to solve than asymmetrical ones. “He gives you an inch and takes away a yard.” “The gabacho (white man) never really changes,” a bato loco said recently.
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