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Show INTER lEW: Cuellar Page 7 Fort Worth area we had people that had moved years before from South Texas from all over. These young people who came to be admitted it was pretty obvious that if they could not speak Spanish they felt a certain pride about not speaking Spanish because Spanish was looked down upon in Texas . And not only that but they were the type of young people who did not all of a sudden stopped being Jimenez all of a sudden they were Jimenez, Garcias or Garcias, the anglosized type of thing because they had to fit into the mold that the American system had carved off for them. Well, I think that today if you look around you'll find that because of this young organization, because of this input that all of this organizors have done, you'll see the reversal of that, you'll see, all of a sudden the pride .within the Mexican- · American, the Chicano. All of a sudden they want to speak Spanish. All of a sudden they don't mind to be pronouncing their names. It's gone so far that it's fashionable for a guy if his name is Richard and he has always been called Richard, he wants to be Ricardo. Or Robert wants to be Roberto, this type of thing. We had an instance of the opposite, the one that I mentioned at at the university in Seattle, Washington, an area way up north where we had about 70 young people come, university people come, and they gave a little demonstration before our Board of Directors. And, of course, the usual confrontation came about and they "finally |
