By: Herman Baca
Fifty years later, I can still vividly remember what happened to me personally and politically in Los Angeles, California on August 29, 1970.
At the time, I was 27 years old, today I’m 77.
Herman Baca
In those 50 years, many persons I knew that marched in the Chicano Moratorium are no longer with us. In other words,
“An era is slowly, but surely coming to an end.”
In 1970 unlike 2020 La Raza was a minute minority, known to U.S. institutions as the,
“Forgotten, silent & invisible minority,” today we number 70 million Chicanos/Mexicanos/Latinos.
In 1970, thirty to forty thousand Chicanos from throughout the U.S. marched in the streets to protest and call for an end to the war in Vietnam. A war, like Afghanistan today, that was destroying our most precious legacy, our youth.
Historically, the question of identification for Mexicans left in the U.S. after the U.S.-Mexico War ended in 1848 as to who we are and how we identify ourselves remains a generational "problem" or "issue," to date.