Re: [ranchos] Pachuco

[Alberto Duarte <albertodua@...>]

A sad note in our history.....
I was just a youngster at that time, living near 1st
street and Boyle Heights, near downtown Los Angeles
and remember the pachucos, most of them were 1st and
2nd generation Mexican-Americans.  

We were literately 2nd class citizens and were treated
worst than most other ethic groups;  when even while
our fathers, uncles, cousins, friends, were dying in
the battle fields of Europe and Asia defending the
same people that hated us!

It was only my Christan faith that saved me.  I knew
that God would eventually punish those that mistreated
us.

Alberto.

--- janet iglesias <reynavaleria@...> wrote:


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I know I'm a little bit late to jump into this
conversation but there is a great example of what
Esperanza is stating in the movie "American Me" with
Edward James Olmos. Great movie on how gangs influence
Los Angeles.



~Janet Iglesias, San Diego CA



>From: latina1955@...
>Reply-To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
>To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [ranchos] Pachuco
>Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 20:32:50 EDT
>
>I recently saw a documentary on Pachuco's. It
indicated that it first
>appeared around the 2nd world war in California,
simply as a style statement worn
>by many Mexican-Americans. Apparently, there was a
confrontation between a
>group of pachuco's and naval men - all started
because the naval men were
>interested in their women. This incident started a
retaliation from the naval
>men, who would come into the neighborhoods and beat
the pachuco's up. This, in
>turn, gave the pachuco's a bad reputation, as the
press just focused on their
>behavior, and of course they were the ones that were
arrested. The
>confrontations continued until the President of the
US ordered that the men were not
>to come off the ships. The tally of those hurt were
much more enormous
>towards the pachucos - something like 100 to 3. It is
my understanding that after
>this, there was a movement for the "gangs" to
identify with the pachuco's -
>hence their later reputation.
>
>Esperanza
>Chicago area

    
    
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