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locoinclx
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 Posted: 04 Dec 2006 03:32 PM Post subject: Imperial County Turns 100 |
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In order to commemorate the occasion of Imperial County turning 100, the County has created a logo for its celebration. Doesn’t this logo look like the old logo for El Centro??? What do you guys think about Imperial Valley turning 100?
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elchrist
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| Posted: 04 Dec 2006 03:42 PM Post subject: |
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The logo only includes the Calexico-side of the Imperial County and is misrepresented by not displaying the new proposed border barrier.
As to the county turning 100, I say it's too old now, so let's pack our things and find somewhere young to live. |
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locoinclx
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| Posted: 04 Dec 2006 04:07 PM Post subject: |
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| You propose making death valley a new county?? Or just completely leave California (Imperial is the youngest county in the state)?? |
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Mars
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| Posted: 04 Dec 2006 10:20 PM Post subject: |
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| elchrist wrote: | The logo only includes the Calexico-side of the Imperial County and is misrepresented by not displaying the new proposed border barrier.
As to the county turning 100, I say it's too old now, so let's pack our things and find somewhere young to live. |
I heard a lot of people are moving to Arizona, isn't that a territory still? |
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Blue Demon
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| Posted: 06 Dec 2006 08:11 PM Post subject: Re: Imperial County Turns 100 |
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Not only is the logo not representing geographic reality, take a look at the committe in charge organizing the 100th anniversary (http://www.ic100.org/sub.php?pid=13) and out of the 9 people listed, only one has a Hispanic surname. What gives? Maybe some of these folks are halfies who happen to have a non-Hispanic last name, or maybe they're married to a non-Hispanic and have adopted their last name. In any case, demographically this does not represent the percentage of Latinos that live in Imperial County. I don't have the census numbers to support my claim, but hell, look around!
| locoinclx wrote: | In order to commemorate the occasion of Imperial County turning 100, the County has created a logo for its celebration. Doesn’t this logo look like the old logo for El Centro??? What do you guys think about Imperial Valley turning 100?
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locoinclx
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| Posted: 07 Dec 2006 09:28 AM Post subject: Re: Imperial County Turns 100 |
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| Blue Demon wrote: | | Not only is the logo not representing geographic reality, take a look at the committe in charge organizing the 100th anniversary (http://www.ic100.org/sub.php?pid=13) and out of the 9 people listed, only one has a Hispanic surname. What gives? Maybe some of these folks are halfies who happen to have a non-Hispanic last name, or maybe they're married to a non-Hispanic and have adopted their last name. In any case, demographically this does not represent the percentage of Latinos that live in Imperial County. I don't have the census numbers to support my claim, but hell, look around! |
Call me racist but statistically speaking Latinos usually tend not to care/be involved with government groups. Aside from that, we weren’t talking about the geographical representation of the population of the valley... So who cares if almost everyone in the committee was white, question is, are they all from El Centro?? Or is it fairly balanced with people from around the valley? By the way, my nephews are "halfies" as you say, and they probably know how to speak Spanish better than many of the so called Latinos in the US. But let’s not get down into the whole "representation of the community by ethnicity and concentrate more on other things such as representation of the community by the place you live, which is more what a government identity would lean into doing. |
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JackintheBoxster
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| Posted: 07 Dec 2006 10:19 AM Post subject: |
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| The pioneers of Imperial Valley were white, then came the Chinese to build it up. Mexicans were the minority 100 years ago. |
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locoinclx
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| JackintheBoxster wrote: | | The pioneers of Imperial Valley were white, then came the Chinese to build it up. Mexicans were the minority 100 years ago. |
True that! Just look at a CHS yearbook circa 1955 and count how many Latinos where there... Even better, why don’t you go and take a look at the portrait that the IV mall has of downtown Calexico from back in the 50’s. |
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Blue Demon
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If the idea is to represent what was going down in the Valley 100 years ago, then I agree that white folks should rule. It would be ridiculous to expect a Latino, Vietnamese, Puerto Rican, etc., to be part of the Daughters of the American Revolution (unless they gain admission through marriage)... sorry for falling into the essentialist bio-genetic trap. 
As to geography, assuming that today Calexico is mostly inhabited by Mexicans or people of Mexican descent, chances are that a committee composed of mostly non-Mexicans may not include much representation from Calexico. Of course, there are some non-Mexican and non-Chinese in Calexico, so maybe they are part of this committee and they'll ensure that the "South Side Valle Imperial" (SSVI) gets some props. |
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elchrist
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| Posted: 07 Dec 2006 04:08 PM Post subject: |
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| Blue Demon wrote: | | As to geography, assuming that today Calexico is mostly inhabited by Mexicans or people of Mexican descent, chances are that a committee composed of mostly non-Mexicans may not include much representation from Calexico. Of course, there are some non-Mexican and non-Chinese in Calexico, so maybe they are part of this committee and they'll ensure that the "South Side Valle Imperial" (SSVI) gets some props. |
Nah, man. It all had to do with getting Mt. Signal and the American Canal into the picture. It just happens that those two important and prominent IV landmarks are in Calexico.
Puro Calecia.
We'll have our 100 year celebration in 2008. It's on a Wednesday, but the city should shut down and we should just party it up beginning at midnight and continuing on until no Caleciano is left standing. |
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