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1975-04-20 Keynote Address: Chicanos and Education - Salvador Ramirez Page 3

IT SHOULD SERVE AS A REMINDER OF ATTENDANT ARROGANCES AND INJUSTICES SUFFERED BY OUR FAMILIAS AT THE HANDS OF HOMESTEADING FRONTIERSMEN.....THE HERDING OF CASTLE.....THE BUILDING OF RAILROADS.....THE DIGGING OF MINES.....AND THE BUILDING OF CITIES.......
IT SHOULD SERVE AS A REMINDER OF THE THOUSAND OF HUMILIATING MACHINATIONS AND VICTIMIZATIONS OF DEFENSELESS RAZA IN THE AGRICULTURAL CAMPS AND FIELDS AND IN THE URBAN RAT-INFESTED SLUMS.....
FINALLY.... THIS REUNION SHOULD INCLUDE THE DIALIOGUE NEEDED TO INTERVENE WITH THE CURRENT DEMEANING, INTENTIONAL EDUCATIONAL D.D.T. THAT IS GRADUALLY DESTROYING, FOREVER.....THE PRESERVATION.....THE TRANSMISSION AND THE ENRICHMENT OF OUR INHERITANCE.
TODAY.....IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING.....THE WELL INFORMED AND INTELLIGENT ARE APPALLED AND PERPLEXED AT THE EDUCATIONAL D,D,T. BEING MANUFACTURED BY TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS. THE CURRENT SOPHISTICATED, LEGITIMIZED MANIPULATIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IN LAU VS NICHOLS BY SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION EXCEEDS REASON. THIS EDUCATIONAL D.D.T. IS NOW BEING LABLED, "MAINSTREAM."
YOU AND I KNOW OF OUR HEREDITY AND WE ARE AWARE OF THE MANY SOCIALIZATION AND MELTING POT ATTEMPTS IN THE PAST TO TRANSFORM IT INTO NEW, MAINSTREAM SPECIES.
IN THE PAST, SOME OF THOSE TRANSFORMING ATTEMPTS HAVE SUCEEDED AND ARE NOW SERIOUSLY AND DANGEROUSLY THREATENED BY A RECENT EMERGING CHICANO PHENOMENON WHICH

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IT SHOULD SERVE AS A REMINDER OF ATTENDANT ARROGANCES AND INJUSTICES SUFFERED BY OUR FAMILIAS AT THE HANDS OF HOMESTEADING FRONTIERSMEN.....THE HERDING OF CASTLE.....THE BUILDING OF RAILROADS.....THE DIGGING OF MINES.....AND THE BUILDING OF CITIES....... IT SHOULD SERVE AS A REMINDER OF THE THOUSAND OF HUMILIATING MACHINATIONS AND VICTIMIZATIONS OF DEFENSELESS RAZA IN THE AGRICULTURAL CAMPS AND FIELDS AND IN THE URBAN RAT-INFESTED SLUMS..... FINALLY.... THIS REUNION SHOULD INCLUDE THE DIALIOGUE NEEDED TO INTERVENE WITH THE CURRENT DEMEANING, INTENTIONAL EDUCATIONAL D.D.T. THAT IS GRADUALLY DESTROYING, FOREVER.....THE PRESERVATION.....THE TRANSMISSION AND THE ENRICHMENT OF OUR INHERITANCE. TODAY.....IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING.....THE WELL INFORMED AND INTELLIGENT ARE APPALLED AND PERPLEXED AT THE EDUCATIONAL D,D,T. BEING MANUFACTURED BY TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS. THE CURRENT SOPHISTICATED, LEGITIMIZED MANIPULATIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IN LAU VS NICHOLS BY SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION EXCEEDS REASON. THIS EDUCATIONAL D.D.T. IS NOW BEING LABLED, "MAINSTREAM." YOU AND I KNOW OF OUR HEREDITY AND WE ARE AWARE OF THE MANY SOCIALIZATION AND MELTING POT ATTEMPTS IN THE PAST TO TRANSFORM IT INTO NEW, MAINSTREAM SPECIES. IN THE PAST, SOME OF THOSE TRANSFORMING ATTEMPTS HAVE SUCEEDED AND ARE NOW SERIOUSLY AND DANGEROUSLY THREATENED BY A RECENT EMERGING CHICANO PHENOMENON WHICH