Re: [ranchos] Dialog of the Dead --> with the Living

[Alberto Duarte <albertodua@...>]

Emile, you are great.

Alberto Duarte Prieto
Santa Maria, California

--- Emilie Garcia <auntyemfaustus@...> wrote:

> Victor,
> 
> As usual your observation is as astute as always.  I
> did identify with some of the debaters, those that
> took the middle road.  I think we all need to get
> together and advance our situations by sticking
> together and not going off on tangents to the
> extremes, such as the Aztlan group.  It is
> unfortunate that those in that group do not realize
> that people like Pat Buchanan stir the Anglo
> populace up by making it look like that fringe group
> speaks for us all, and that we are all into
> "Reconquista" which brings up to the Anglos the
> specter of armed brown hordes seeking to re-conquer
> the land.  We are slowly re-conquering anyway, due
> to the American economy being so dependent on cheap
> Mexican labor in manufacturing, agriculture and
> services.  We just need to tone down our resentments
> and work towards ensuring that this country remains
> the bastion that it has been for human rights for
> everyone.  We can't afford to take any backward
> steps.  We must acculturate, but because of the
> proximity to Mexico and our mostly Native origins,
> they can't expect us to give up our ethnicity as
> rapidly nor as completely as other immigrant groups.
>  This will take several generations to accomplish,
> if ever.
> 
> Emilie
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From:
> v.h.villarreal<mailto:raices_regias@...> 
>   To:
>
ranchos@yahoogroups.com<mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com>
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>   Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:55 PM
>   Subject: [ranchos] Dialog of the Dead --> with the
> Living
> 
> 
>   --- In
>
ranchos@yahoogroups.com<mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com>,
> Joseph Puentes <makas@n<mailto:makas@n>...> wrote:
>   > >
>   >
>
http://www.historynothype.com/deaddialog.htm<http://www.historynothype.com/deaddialog.htm>
>   > 
>   > DIALOG of the DEAD--An Interactive One-Act Play
>   > By
>   > Rubén Sálaz Márquez
>   > 
>   > © Copyright 2005 by Rubén D. Sálaz
>   > 
>   >  Dramatis Personae
>   > 
>   > Narrator (female), Chicano, Above-It-All, María
> (female), Latino, 
>   > Immigrant (female), Hispano.
>   > 
>   > Heckler, Policeman, Immigration Officer
> (female), Army Soldier,
>   Sheriff, FBI Agent. Two male stage hands.
>   > 
>   > Dual roles:  Heckler/Sheriff;
> Policeman/Stagehand.
>   > 
>   > Scene:  The stage is dark and bare except for
> the Narrator standing 
>   > behind an upstage, brightly spotlighted
> (overhead) podium. 
> 
>   Joseph,
> 
>   That play sure is thought provoking.  By
> personifiying the prevalent
>   views of different segments of American society in
> an imaginary (but
>   realistic) debate, the first reaction from the
> spectator (or reader)
>   may be to identify with one of the characters in
> the play.  
> 
>   But by the way the author chooses to end all, he's
> clearly suggesting
>   that there can be no single winner in such debate,
> but rather that
>   everyone involved needs to trascend his/her
> antagonistic views and
>   find an alternative higher path. Not an easy task
> to do, but the play
>   itself is an encouraging sign that it can be done.
> 
>   Thanks!
> 
>   Victor
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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