chicano
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Shed the skin of the colonizer
As if it is not also mine
As if the blood coursing through me did not also
pool along the legs of Malintze
The hood also known as the ghetto, el barrio, the projects, section 8 and home.
A place where family functions don't end till the next day.
A poem inspired by the militarization of the border as well as the Chicano Movement.
Las hierlas
All I need is my culture.
The blood of the Meshika flows through my veins
Know that my ancestors were not the Aztecs,
For that name was coined by the European imperialist
Yo soy Chicano
I am Chicano
My brown skin hides the stories running through my blood
So that you hafta get to know me to learn from me
Will I be taught about the erased history
Of the blood spill of racial oppression?
The native, slave, Chinese, Irish story.
Erased by the whites without redemption
Born in San Diego, I am Mexican.
"They said I would be accepted once again,
If I accept the Anglonization,
and reject that my roots are N-D-N.
Well all I can say is Death before Dishonor,
Thus I must find my flame
This White American conscious
superior, benevolent, controlling our future
White heart, white mind, white hands
shape us, for better or worse
How can we not be flawed?
