Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently hosted a College Fair at Roosevelt High School in East LA. My brother and I visited the high school and left after talking to some college counselors from the Claremont Colleges.
But as I drove around RHS, I had to snap this picture of the mural that wraps around its track and field. The passion that many Chicanos feel towards the history of the Mexica people is astounding. For many Mexican Americans that have yet to visit Mexico, their loyalty and love for the old country takes many expressions.
Sadly, most of this energy is not reciprocated from the Mexicans south of the border, who often see Mexican Americans as culturally diluted, linguistically challenged and permanently detached from the tapestry of Mexico. Little do those south of the border know or realize that the drum beats louder north of the Rio Grande, especially in places like East LA.
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