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Show INTERVIE,.J: Cuellar Page 16 At one time they were the most radical thing around. So there's a need for someone to say: 'Hey you, someone has left us behind.' That's the GI Forum, and LULAC. Let's form something back here, that is really relevant to us. So, here comes ~ffiCHA who identifies with the younger, with the school groups, that really they dress in rags, that's what they want to do. The Brown Berets they needed to identify maybe with the approach, with the needs of the Black Berets, this type of thing. And they did it and made quite a bit of commotion The same tactics, I think, are used and the same approach has been used by Corky Gonzalez. Reies Tijerina based his organization on the land fight, on the right of the Spanish-speaking to the land. Dr. Garcia formed his organization on the need to give equal rights to the veteran coming back from WWII. So there is, there's usually is the impetus for something to begin. The problem usually is how to continue and augment an organization to make sure it continues. That's the problem. That's where many of them fall. Very importantly in connection with that is the development of leadership. Younger leadership to continue that organization. Many groups stagnate the development. For whatever reasons. Sometimes it's jealousy from the leaders, sometimes inability to do it, lack of recognition, lack of foresight or just simply the economics, of it not being able to foste-r that |
