#ChicanoHistory: Rubén Salazar was one of the most well-known Latino journalists of the twentieth century and one of the few journalists killed while reporting in the United States. He was killed on August 29th, 1970, when he was struck in the head by a tear gas projectile fired by a sheriff’s deputy into an East Los Angeles bar as he was covering the massive National Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War, a massive antiwar march that drew some 30,000 people to LA’s Eastside. For forty years, speculation and controversy have swirled around what happened. In one of his last recorded comments, he states: I’m only advocating the Mexican American community...which, by the way, the general community has totally ignored. And so, someone must advocate that, because it’s easy for the establishment to say, Aren’t we all the same? Aren’t we all Americans? Well, obviously we’re not. Otherwise we wouldn’t be in the revolutionary process that we are in now. Learn more about his legacy in a video provided here: democracynow.org/2010/8/31/slain_latino_journalist_ruben_salazar_killed
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:00:01 +0000
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