'Chicano All Stars'

Gustavo Arellano at the OC Weekly's blog gets in the face of "Chicano yaktivists" (his term) who are attacking Daniel Hernandez of the sister LA Weekly for his hard-hitting story on the turmoil at the South Central Community Garden. He calls it a pattern also seen in Latino leadership piling on the Times' series about the United Farm Workers union.

Enter the Chicano All-Stars.

Those are the true believers: the folks who think the MEChA slogan “Por la raza todo; fuera de la raza, nada” is gospel and not an embarrassing 1960s relic. The people who vote by “consensus”. The PC pendejos. The people who are calling Hernandez a vendido–a sell-out.

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More ludicrous is the letter by Devon Peña, a professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. Peña begins his lengthy letter by stating, “I believe the author was previously terminated at the L.A. Times and I can now begin to understand why this was likely the case.”

Baboso: Hernandez left the Times on good terms. How do I know? I was one of the guys who told him to join my company.

Arellano also was the subject of Hernandez's final story for the Times, as he acknowledges.

Photo: Los Angeles Times