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Show I TERVIEW: Cuellar Page 17 development. So they don't do it, and what happens pretty soon the older membership begins to drop out, and well, all of a sudden they find that there is nobody to carry the ball forward, and that's a very dangerous thing that needs to be looked at ver· carefully by any existing organization. GC: You broached the subject that I was coming to next and that's leadership. I get two impressions and one is that there's various national Chicano leaders and that there are some that are leaders in a certain sphere of influence . Would either one of them be correct? Well, maybe we ought to define it a little further as to what your definition of what a leader is and what his function requirements are, say within a Chicano community . RC: I don't know . We usually look at someone who _is a leader . What is a leader? I suppose that a leader is anybody, any person can be, any person who is a self- starter . Who does not sit back and wait, for whatever happens tomorrow will happen . Someone who has some type of ability to articulate the problems of his people to others to get a message across. So it's a combination of many many factors. Someone who can analyze a situation, economically, socially, politically of a given segment of the population and say, 'Hey, this needs direction,' so you have somebody there to put some direction on it. All right, given that definition I think a leader can be a leader of a group, a leader of a community, . a leader of a whole city, a leader of a country, a leader of a |
