What Was The Chicano Movement

The movement was a peaceful movement with nonviolent tactics and respectable boycott methods, some disagree though. It can be said though that the Chicano Movement was more of a riot that disrupted the peace or status quo of society to only cripple and not support the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement. Boycotts just crippling the economic profits, workers refusing to work, causing production of crop to seize to a halt, school walkouts causing disruption and chaos on the streets. This obviously exploited the plans of the Capitalists that were benefiting off the presence of illegal undocumented farm workers with them not benefiting and racking in the money. It is quite simple for a Capitalists to make money off illegal workers, they pay
workers such low wages to keep production costs low, increasing the bottom line number for greater return for their investment. According to Mendoza, Valerie explains first hand, in Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. , that farm workers were paid typically one to two dollars per working day. For a better understanding of this, in today’s dollars it is a grand total of sixteen dollars and seventy seven cents. It is quite appalling to think for such a labor intensive job that a human being is compensative ever so little. Yet this is quite common for big Capitalists to do. It goes to show of the famous saying of the rich get richer while the poor stays poor. This was the reality of the Latinos during this time though, having to live off this poor wage in order to stay alive.
Police have been created to keep the peace of society.
To do whatever it takes, to maintain order on the streets. When faced with Latinos in the thousands marching through the streets. It can be a police officer worst nightmare. What was once a peaceful protest, inspired by the Black Panthers, can turn into a all out suburban war. As Castañeda, Oscar Rosales, talks about in The Chicano Movement in Washington State 1967-2006 , that police have been known to arrive to this protests in almost military like outfits and begin beating people down and arresting people for non justifiable reasons. This was a tactic quite commonly enforced by the police to maintain order among the Latino community. This legal violence was one of the many ways that they use to make sure that the Latino community stays in their social class and keep their heads down. They were targeted and hunted as dogs in the gram scheme of the white supremacists. These people of color, Latinos, was a futile, slave like workers that were insignificant to the white rulers that ran this farming businesses.This was not going to stop the Chicano Movement though as they persisted in keep protesting. They kept pushing forward not letting the white men in uniforms hold them back. They wanted to show them that the Chicano Movement was there and they were turning
back.