Walkout Page #3

Maybe you're smart.

Maybe you're good at sports.

Maybe you're good with people.

Maybe you're just

a chingon vato loco.

Ah, Bobby Verdugo.

Cholo king!

One out of four

Mexican-Americans

graduate high school.

You guys are almost

over that hurdle.

The next hurdle is

getting you into college

and getting a degree.

"Time" magazine,

you guys see it?

It's America's Bible,

and we made it!

Whoo!

Let me read it to you.

It's called "Pocho's Progress."

- What? Pocho?

- Who are the Pochos, by the way?

- Who's Pocho?

- "Nowhere is Pocho's plight

more evident than in the monotonous

sun-scabbed flatlands

of East Los Angeles."

What are they talking about?

We got hills in East L.A.

I know, I know.

"In tawdry taco joints

and rollicking cantinas,

the reek of cheap sweet wine

competes with the fumes

of frying tortillas."

- This is how they see you.

- That's bullshit, man.

Yeah.

So if our schools

are inferior,

and the police beat us up,

so what, right?

We deserve it, right?

We're cheap,

- tawdry and poor-- no?

- No! No!

- No.

- 2%

of Chicanos make it

into college.

to change that.

Until we get educated,

somebody else will be

writing our history.

- I want us to write it.

- That's right, yeah!

- Let's write it.

- Yeah!

Huh? I want us

to make our own history!

The great American Chicano!

Remember! Remember that freedom

is in education and knowledge.

- Got it.

- Thank you.

U.M.A.S.

Hi, welcome

to Occidental.

- Strong liberal arts--

- Thank you.

I'm gonna have so much

to fill out tonight.

- Got it, got it. I am hungry, girls.

- Hi, Mr. Castro.

- UCLA.

- I see L.A., we saw L.A.

- What's with the berets?

- Like the Black Panthers, only brown.

- That's original.

- Ladies, sign up right here.

- What do you guys do?

- We're a community action group

improving conditions

in the barrio:

cleaning up parks,

registering people to vote--

Don't forget about

protesting police brutality.

- Yeah?

- That's right. I'm David Sanchez,

- Carlos Montes.

- Hi.

- Armando Lopez.

- Oh--

- How are you doing?

- How are you guys? Nice to meet you.

Here, this'll give you an idea

of what's really going on.

Thanks for your

contribution.

We want people who've got

the guts to change things.

- You think you've got the guts?

- Hey, girls?

You want to change

something, go to college.

- You're Al's sister, right?

- Yeah.

- Paula.

- Moctesuma Esparza.

I went to Lincoln

with him.

You passed by my booth.

And... where are you

going to college?

Oh, um,

I don't know yet.

There's 40 Chicanos in UCLA--

at a school of 30,000

not counting the gardeners. We need

all the beautiful Chicanas we can get.

No, I mean I don't know

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