Marcela's Musing

Another excerpt from Next edited by Eric Liu.
"Generation Mex" by Lalo Lopez

Chicano, Chicana (Chee-kah-noh) A Mexican-American who knows what's up and it really pisses him or her off.

"I am a Pocho. I'm not just Mexican-American, not a fifty-fifty split, but a mixed-up Mex living and toiling in the US of A...I ride between two vastly different cultures and end up splitting the difference...Born on the fence, not on the Fourth of July, I represent the new generation son-of-an-immigrant that just doesn't give a flying frijol what the whacked out gringo's got to say. Never before has a generation been so overarmed with well-earned wit and education to confront the weakening White Establishment. We diss the mainstream just as much as we offend our elders. Generation X? 'Stas Loco! As a proud member of the under-thirty Chicano population, I loudly proclaim Generation MEX!"