POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS WITH SAL BALDENEGRO 6.22.14 “LA PLEBE DE JOHN SPRING”
LA PLEBE DE JOHN SPRING This is the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education case that determined that racially segregated schools were unconstitutional. Which brings to mind how in the...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 01.18.15 “CHICANO HISTORY WEEK?”
Chicano History Week? Should there be a Chicano History Week? Members of a Listserv I subscribe to were recently asked to lobby their respective legislatures to designate the week of February 2-8 as...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 5.17.15 “EVERYBODY LOVES MEXICANS”
Everybody loves Mexicans… The political season is upon us, and everybody in the political world all of a sudden loves Mexicans. Republicans will pretend to take a break from demonizing us, and...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 3.13.16 “MCCARTHY AND BERNIE SANDERS”
Déjà vu: Bernie Sanders reincarnates Eugene McCarthy… As Yogi Berra noted, it’s déjà vu all over again. As it did forty-eight (48) years ago, the Democratic Party elite-establishment has declared war...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS WITH SAL BALDENEGRO 6.22.14 “LA PLEBE DE JOHN SPRING”
LA PLEBE DE JOHN SPRING This is the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education case that determined that racially segregated schools were unconstitutional. Which brings to mind how in the...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 01.18.15 “CHICANO HISTORY WEEK?”
Chicano History Week? Should there be a Chicano History Week? Members of a Listserv I subscribe to were recently asked to lobby their respective legislatures to designate the week of February 2-8 as...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 5.17.15 “EVERYBODY LOVES MEXICANS”
Everybody loves Mexicans… The political season is upon us, and everybody in the political world all of a sudden loves Mexicans. Republicans will pretend to take a break from demonizing us, and...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 3.13.16 “MCCARTHY AND BERNIE SANDERS”
Déjà vu: Bernie Sanders reincarnates Eugene McCarthy… As Yogi Berra noted, it’s déjà vu all over again. As it did forty-eight (48) years ago, the Democratic Party elite-establishment has declared war...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO 5.14.17 LANGUAGE RACISM
Language racism… He couldn’t speak English, so me and the other workers made fun of him. State Rep. Russell Pearce, referring to a teenage co-worker. Arizona Republic, February 11, 2005 Native...
View ArticleTHIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 10.22.17
THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: SAL BALDENEGRO ON ANYTHING BUT MEXICAN, RUDY AND STEVE SALAS ON PERFORMING AT CARNEGIE HALL, JUAN GONZALEZ ON HARVEST OF EMPIRE, SONIA ROMERO ON THE McARTHUR PARK SUBWAY MURAL...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO 12.10.17 “TRUMP FOCUSES RACIST...
Trump focuses his racist tendencies on American Indians The racist tendencies Donald Trump brought with him to the presidency are still alive and well. Just this month Trump enthusiastically endorsed...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SAL BALDENEGRO 5.19.19 “ARE PICKETS AND MARCHES...
Are pickets, marches, etc., effective? Were the demonstrations, pickets, marches, etc., of the Chicano Movement effective? During an interview (by a college student for a term paper) I was asked that...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 8.18.19 ‘THERE’S BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS”
There’s blood on their hands… The blood of the 22 El Paso massacre victims, the youngest of whom was 15, is on the hands not only of Donald Trump but also on those who support, protect, make excuses...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS With SAL BALDENEGRO 11.10.19 “HUELGA! HUELGA! HUELGA!”
Huelga! Huelga! Huelga! The United Steelworkers(USW) and several other unions—Teamsters, Boilermakers, Electricians, Machinists & Aerospace workers, Automobile workers, and Operating...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SAL BALDENEGRO 5.16.20 “VALUE YOUR FRIENDS…”
“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.” Shannon Alder, Therapist and Author True friends are a real treasure. The...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 6.13.20 “TRUTH TELLING- MEXICAN...
Truth-telling—Mexican American Studies… Mexican Americans have not lived in a vacuum; they have left footprints in terms of history, literature, and interactions with the legal and educational systems....
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO “ACTIVISM IS THE FOUNDATION…”
Activism is the foundation… “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” Incoming POTUS Gerald Ford, August 9, 1974 on the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Ford’s words resonate...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 12.12.20 “HISTORY MATTERS…”
History matters… History instructs. History inspires. History matters. Ignoring it is problematic and causes discord. A couple of recent events bring this to mind. One has to do with César Chávez and...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 6.19.21
Honor the historians… “The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.” Jean Bodin, French political philosopher The observation “What’s past is prologue,” from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,”...
View ArticlePOLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SAL BALDENEGRO 8.14.21 “THE KNOW NOTHINGS ARE BACK!”
It’s déjà vu all over again. American philosopher Yogi Berra The Know Nothings are back! Indeed, it’s déjà vu all over again. The Know Nothing Republican Party is rearing its ugly head again. Given...
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