Why is sending your kid up the street with the neighborhood kids in the neighborhood you chose to live in such a horrible thing? And why does the fight for quality education has to be so literally drawn between class and racial lines? And if the school thinks its doing such an inappropriate job that it needs to create a school within a school then why not create those enriched experiences for the magnet and that quality and consideration into the whole schools.

I know that parents who have been in gentrified or nongentrified ethnic neigborhoods have been complaining for years why are the only complaints that are listened to or the one from people who just moved there yesterday.

Reminds me of LAPD enforcement. It pisses me off when I look at Echo Park and Silver Lake remembering how much te mom’s there begged and no one cared, no one cared until a bunch of people with 3000 dollar sleeve tattoos from the movie industry moved in.

LAUSD is racist. The LAPD is racist. The City of LA is racist (and institutional racism doesn’t go away with a Latino mayor and a black president) and that’s what it is and until that is addressed nothing is going to change.

The people in Westchester are just as working class as the people in Lincoln Heights and Leimert Park is just as middle class as Mar Vista. so this it’s just about class point that people try to jab into our eye is just not going to hold water.

Browne

Era un domingo señores
como a las tres de la tarde
estaba El Chavo
aconsejando AlDesmadre.

Dentro de pocos momentos
AlDesmadre tengo que partir
del tren se escucha el silbato
se acerca mi porvenir.

Cuando llego a la estación
un metro ya estaba silbando
y un carro de dinamita
ya se le estaba quemando.

La Chimatli le dice,
Chavo vamos apeando
mira que el carro de atrás
ya se nos viene quemando.

El Chavo le contesta
yo pienso muy diferente
yo no quiero ser la causa
de que se mueva tanta gente.

Le dio vuelta a su vapor
porque era de cuesta arriba
antes de llegar a la “Main”
ahí termino su vida.

Desde ese día inolvidable
tú te has ganado la cruz
tú te has ganado las palmas
eres un héroe ElChavo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgNlNI87lk

Bad news: the eloteros have reported quiche-froyo LEDs disguised as america apparel refuse set up at various points rendering our vehicles useless. Apparently the purple BID cops harassing street vendors have been disgraced by our guerilla food vending techniques, and this is payback. We are fervently armoring shopping carts as I type with steel undercarriages to handle the dairy laiden explosions, concentrated near the historic core and FIDM. Baby strollers and hand carts are no longer allowed in the combat zone.

We had recon confirmation of Christian Audgier shirts spotted near the Commerce Center, but the panic subsided when the mentioned shirt was deemed a knock off from the callejones.

If the time comes (which it never will) for us to retreat, I have a ’stache of cyanide laced hollenbecks waiting for us at Rudy’s bikes on the East LA/ Montebello border. There are also gun turrets ready for action at A& G custom sounds on whittier and suicide bombers ready to hit Eastside Love and Chim Maya.

maybe they’re talking about saving Broadway from Latinos