Talk:Baldwin Park, California

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I didn't want to put this in the main article because of POV issues, but I should point out that Save Our State claims only one Hispanic member, a woman has publicly written to the Los Angeles Times that she is an original Californio of Spanish ancestry (i.e., not a Chicano). This makes the group's denials of racist motives more than a little suspect, to say the least. I myself happen to think that it's a bunch of white trash (and the fact that Turner grew up in a trailer park in northwestern Riverside County doesn't exactly help his credibility on that matter) who think that they're owed jobs because they're US citizens--and given my hometown, I have a pretty good working knowledge of such folks.--Slightlyslack 6 July 2005 07:58 (UTC)

Slightlyslack loves to accuse people of racist motives, and then he utters the racial slur "white trash". He then links Joe Turner and SOS to "trailer parks". Hypocritical, to say the least. Posted by Tom Swedge.

Typical ignorance from a typically ignorant jackass....stuck on race. Slightlyslack needs to get his brain out of 1950--anonymous

Slightlyslack, Californios were Mexican citizens. People of Mexican descent in the USA are called Chicanos. So why aren't Californio descendents living in the USA Chicanos, too?--Chamaca.cosmica 08:06, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Well there are the Mexicans and those from Spain, and by Mexicans i mean those who fought against the Spaniards. I'm guessing Slightlyslack is referring to those as Chicano? so i guess it all depends on who you see as being of Mexican decent, is it just natives in the Mexican area, or also those from Spain that lost the war? I actually am confused as to which I am, because I am related to Pio Pico who was the last Mexican governor of Alta California, but I also have a relative who fought against the Mexicans, so I actually have relatives who fought each other. I live right next to Baldwin Park, in La Puente. -- AlexTheMartian | Talk 03:27, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

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