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Chicano manifesto: different strokes for different folks, 2015.

02202015.

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Kingsville, tx. Hello folks I am Urbando Yosabatodo con today’s exclusive report on different strokes for different folks, 2015.

As we move into the 21 century and making more folks aware of what could be and not be hasn’t change much. I will try in details to show that things haven’t changes much but have.

There was an incident here a few weeks ago that our barrio Tejano award band winners were not getting their fair share of payments, booking bigger and better events and just plain not getting our share.  Please note the barrio Tejano award winners are make believe groups but if it applies to you than there no reason to go explain.

Some someone asked us, what’s the question that I was asking, and what are we trying to say? Well here are a few examples: first of all the owners of different dance halls from our side of the tracks vs. the other side of the tracks, were using a barrio promoter to promote the majority of Tejano make believe bands both sides of the track.

Now the only problem here was that when a  barrio promoter booked a Tejano make believe band was getting paid much lower than those that were not Tejano bands (country, blues and so on) at the same locations across the tracks. Now of course when a band played at our side of the tracks they knew, that the Tejano make believe bands, were going to get paid less, but, didn’t expect to get the same treatment on the other side of the tracks, getting paid about the same they got paid here on our side of the tracks.

Now the second point is we did approach the so call barrio promoter that had all this power and by the way we also found out that this barrio promoter were also promoting non-Tejano make believer bands, but only on that side of the tracks. When we asked them why are we paying our Tejano make believe bands about 30 to 40 percent cheaper, he, she and them said; hey they are willing to play for almost nothing.

Now that was a puzzling answer, and let me explain.  Now the well know Tejano make believe bands have brought more people to those dance halls from across the tracks, have sold more beverages, food, t-shirts and whatever that dance had to sell sold out every night compared to those  non-Tejano bands.

And yet the barrio promoter would book them for far less, like we pointed out earlier knew that. The barrio promoter really couldn’t comprehend our question and never the less give us an answer to why. So reasoning seemed to be in order, well at least from a logical point of view, and left it at that.

So our conclusion was very simple, el barrio has achieved so much in such a short time that our own raza, in this case the barrio promoter felt que there was no real reason to pay us more and that in many cases the bigger and better make believe Tejano bands had already earned enough con la onda. It’s a sad day for la onda here in our make believe world. When we have our own raza, who have the power to move us forward, but instead are use the old gringito theory of why pay more when they do it cheaper.

I am Tejano and I love my life and there will be nothing in our way to stop us from getting there. We can petition, we write letters and do all sort of things that YOU want to do in order to demonstrate your share, and that is great but let us stop for a second an look at the overall matter and not just jump to see who jumps the highest but let’s do our share and not drag someone down on our way up.