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Show I TERVIE~: Cuellar Page 11 fighting the Spanish-speaking all over the country. I was interviewed for that, and I thought, I discounted the whole thing as very ridiculous. Sure, they're fighting here in LA. They have something to fight about. Spanish-speaking feel that they are not receiving their fair share of those particular monies, they're going to make it known. The Blacks are going to try and defend themselves. But over all on a national basis, we ourselves, SER which is a national project representing quite a few people throughout the country, have worked together with NAACP, and it's going to continue in that way because the Black, the Spanishspeaking, the Puerto Ricans, the Cubans, you know, so forth and so on will unite to make their cases with the federal government. It's inevitable. GC: I want to deviate from the subject a little bit . Dealing with your involvement now, with you might say "aiding the poor project" and your involvement, your past history organization involvement, there has been some question to what a Chicano really is by definition. If there really is a movement; if it 1 s really an organized aim to accomplishing one particular goal, which would be the betterment of we say generally "la gente." Would you elaborate a little bit on what you think that might be? RC: Yes. Well let's take them by question Greg. What is a Chicano? You've seen a lot of writing by a lot of people trying to explain what a Chicano is, and they usually start with a normal definition |
