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Show INTERVIEW: Cuellar Page 15 its own permanent base in s0ciety from which to work with, give it its own permanence? Would that explain why so many or could you name any organization that is a cross-section ·of all? That has some other tying denominator besides Chicano? RC: I would think that if there is any organization that is a cross section of all it's going to have to be probably the largest, so far, the American GI Forum and LULAC, but eventually I think, if relevance continues, I think it might be on the political basis, La Raza Unida because again it- involves a lot of things and the only thing it does get to the partisan type of approach. But, by and large, in organizing or Drganizations the trend is to find something. An organization grows from the need for itself, right? So there's a nee~, there's a gap somewhere that somebody must fill. I cited yesterday the development of LULAC, the development of the GI Forum, the development of PASSO, the development of the other younger groups. Well, all of them had come about as a matter as a response to community needs, to population needs. All of a sudden one organization who had existed for years, and LULAC, and the GI Forum have been considered extremely conservative now a days. Somewhat traditional established alright? They're considered _ the upper crust of the Mexjicano now a days. Like the grass roots do not identify with. Why? Well, because they have, to a certain extent, become· that |
