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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565067" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My first taste of the importance of a college education</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remember going <br>to my first Chicano Higher Education Conference<br>in January of 1969<br>in a barren place of<br>University of Whitewater, Wisconsin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my brother Juan drove a white university station wagon<br>to his hometown Racine <br>that Friday night<br>to pick me and my other brother up</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had never been to a college campus before<br>but from stories I had heard<br>college was a cross between<br>Disneyland and <br>a crowded New York subway on Times Square on New Years Eve</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all I can recall from the two hour ride<br>was a flashing red light<br>at the intersection of Highways 20 & 83<br>there were no cars in sight<br>just a warning…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we arrived on campus at 11 pm<br>and went to the student union<br>where we listened to an acid rock band<br>playing to a crowd of Chicanos and Blacks<br>no dancing occurred<br>just meditating</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A college friend offered up his room <br>and slept at his girlfriend's<br>at 3: 30 am <br>seven of us shared <br>the beds, floor and mushroom chair<br>but I didn’t get much sleep</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we snuck into the cafeteria<br>in the morning<br>when a football playing black friend named “Big C”<br>stood in the way of the cashier </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the first workshop<br>was on bilingual education<br>and the speaker was so excited<br>he used a lot of big words <br>I had never heard before<br>so I figured bilingual education <br>must be important <br>or he wouldn’t have been so serious</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the only bilingual education<br>I had ever heard of <br>was mentioned once in<br>our Mexican-American history class<br>taught by the only Mexican-American teacher<br>in our high school</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the last workshop <br>was on getting more students enrolled in higher education <br>the speaker Corky Gonzales<br>was also a poet<br>and he told us<br>“we were the future of our people”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stared at the blackboard<br>in that college classroom<br>and felt strange<br>about all the times <br>I had raised my hand in grade school<br>and my teacher<br>did not call on me<br>or want to hear my answer</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oscar+Mireles">Oscar Mireles</a><div class=q>
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to my first Chicano Higher Education Conference
in January of 1969
in a barren place of
University of Whitewater, Wisconsin

my brother Juan drove a white university station wagon
to his hometown Racine 
that Friday night
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