Comments on: Reflecting Cinco de Mayo http://xicanopwr.com/2007/05/reflecting-cinco-de-mayo/ because there are some things still worth fighting for Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:22:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: XicanoPwr http://xicanopwr.com/2007/05/reflecting-cinco-de-mayo/comment-page-1/#comment-1143 XicanoPwr Mon, 07 May 2007 13:53:47 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/2007/05/reflecting-cinco-de-mayo/#comment-1143 Thank you!! I used the same joke as last year, I figure it is a good ice breaker, but this time around I provided more historical information. I was happy to find the Lincoln information, because if I had just linked to another person who said, I still have to prove that it existed. So I like to get to source. I was to see Neuza address this in his <a href="http://www.theunapologeticmexican.org/elgrito/2007/05/the_true_front_of_progressivism.html#more" rel="nofollow">latest post</a>. Tony, I don't think it is a pipe dream, it is a reality about being aware of our historical events that will help define us. Thank you!! I used the same joke as last year, I figure it is a good ice breaker, but this time around I provided more historical information. I was happy to find the Lincoln information, because if I had just linked to another person who said, I still have to prove that it existed. So I like to get to source. I was to see Neuza address this in his latest post.

Tony, I don’t think it is a pipe dream, it is a reality about being aware of our historical events that will help define us.

]]> By: nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez http://xicanopwr.com/2007/05/reflecting-cinco-de-mayo/comment-page-1/#comment-1127 nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez Sun, 06 May 2007 02:51:56 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/2007/05/reflecting-cinco-de-mayo/#comment-1127 Right on, Tony! Right on, Tony!

]]> By: Tony Herrera http://xicanopwr.com/2007/05/reflecting-cinco-de-mayo/comment-page-1/#comment-1125 Tony Herrera Sun, 06 May 2007 00:37:40 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/2007/05/reflecting-cinco-de-mayo/#comment-1125 Excellent post XP. I appreciate your bringing to light more on the historical significance of Cinco de Mayo and the Batalla de Puebla. The fact that you linked to Abraham Lincoln's handwritten notes is the real gem of this post. The post serves to remind me that Latinos can always can count on a few honest and forthright legislators to defend the Constitution and call upon their Country to do the right thing, but the true power to affect change rests within ourselves, it's collective, but manifests itself in our right to cast our individual vote. I can only speak for myself, but your post further validates the significance and importance of our people learning more about Mexico's history, particularly as it relates to United States. Perhaps, it's just "pipe dream" of mine, but I've come to believe that only through an awareness and understanding of the historical events that helped define us as Latinos, especially Mexicans/Mexican-Americans/Chicanos, or however we choose to define ourselves, it does not matter much for we are all Mestizos, our willingness to stand together in solidarity and our potent voting block is what is needed in order to affect positive change in this country. Excellent post XP. I appreciate your bringing to light more on the historical significance of Cinco de Mayo and the Batalla de Puebla. The fact that you linked to Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten notes is the real gem of this post.
The post serves to remind me that Latinos can always can count on a few honest and forthright legislators to defend the Constitution and call upon their Country to do the right thing, but the true power to affect change rests within ourselves, it’s collective, but manifests itself in our right to cast our individual vote.

I can only speak for myself, but your post further validates the significance and importance of our people learning more about Mexico’s history, particularly as it relates to United States.

Perhaps, it’s just “pipe dream” of mine, but I’ve come to believe that only through an awareness and understanding of the historical events that helped define us as Latinos, especially Mexicans/Mexican-Americans/Chicanos, or however we choose to define ourselves, it does not matter much for we are all Mestizos, our willingness to stand together in solidarity and our potent voting block is what is needed in order to affect positive change in this country.

]]> By: nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez http://xicanopwr.com/2007/05/reflecting-cinco-de-mayo/comment-page-1/#comment-1117 nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez Sat, 05 May 2007 14:12:36 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/2007/05/reflecting-cinco-de-mayo/#comment-1117 right on, XP. great post. i feel the pressure on me to write some grand cinco de maya post again. like i'll feel it every year. not sure yet what way i'll take it. but i agree. it has many resonances. i love how an outnumbered bunch of citizens using any means were able to defeat a larger, more organized and funded group of soldiers, myself. that beautiful mexicano fire, baby. you can't put it out with ten armies. feliz cinco de mayo, bro. and funny opening joke. right on, XP. great post. i feel the pressure on me to write some grand cinco de maya post again. like i’ll feel it every year. not sure yet what way i’ll take it. but i agree. it has many resonances. i love how an outnumbered bunch of citizens using any means were able to defeat a larger, more organized and funded group of soldiers, myself. that beautiful mexicano fire, baby. you can’t put it out with ten armies. feliz cinco de mayo, bro. and funny opening joke.

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