Richard Alexander Lou lived in Tijuana, Mexico until he was almost 9 years old, and every day for almost three years, he would cross the border to go to elementary school. Around 6:30 a.m., Lou’s father would pack him and his four siblings in the car and drive across the border into the United States. Lou.
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Blocker is strategy and communication adviser for the San Diego-Tijuana Smart Border Coalition. He lives in La Jolla.
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, Saint Teresa of Calcutta
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After I moved to San Diego 21 years ago, my friend Teresa Doyle gradually connected me with an epic three-generation story of mothers doing small and great things with great love. As a minor byproduct of these mothers’ lives, I found myself for a time stuffing stacks of donated day-old Bread & Cie loaves up to the roof of the back seat of my car for delivery to a church meal program in Southcrest. Here is a handful of glimpses into this mothers’ saga stretching over a century.
By Tejano Nation
Mar 9, 2021
An homage to the First Queen of Tejano Music, Lydia Mendoza, by artist Richard Duardo (Source: McNay Art Museum)
Decades before fans called
Lydia Mendozaheld the crown as Tejano music’s first female icon.
Born in 1916 to parents who migrated to Texas during the Mexican Revolution, Mendoza began her music career in a family band that performed on street corners and in open-air markets to make ends meet. One of her first gigs as a solo artist involved playing live on San Antonio’s only Spanish-language daily radio program for $3.50 per week.
“With that three-fifty we felt like millionaires,” Mendoza wrote in her autobiography. “Now at least we could be sure of paying the rent. Life was nothing but working in order to live. That is the reason I had so little gaiety in my youth, just bitterness and sadness.”
The Pueblo Chieftain
Rioters weren t true patriots
A cult is defined by its excessive and unwarranted devotion to a person, place, or cause. What the nation saw on January 6th, 2021 at the national Capitol was the work of a cult. Donald Trump’s fervid supporters are not patriots, as Trump and some Republican politicians like Ted Cruz describe them. No true patriot would have paraded the stars and bars of the Confederacy through the Capitol; that never happened even during the Civil War.
No true patriot would have lowered our nation’s flag from it place on the Capitol, taken it from its lanyard, dropped it several stories to the ground like so much rubbish, and then hoisted a Trump campaign flag in its place.