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You probably know me as Adolfo Guzman Lopez, public radio journalist. But in the 1990s, I was a Chicano student

activist. That's something I'm not supposed to tell you about. A past that's not supposed to be a

part of my journey as a reporter. I marched and protested while people shouted that immigrants, like me, should go back to where they came from.

And when I became a reporter, I packed those years away into a box, along with some of my most painful memories.

But now, when I open that box, the voice I hear loudest is that of Oscar Gomez.

Oscar was a 90s, cruising down the Firmé Avenue of a slam. This is La Ona Chicana, music of Barrio, coming at you, with Sajos. Oscar was a 90s student activist too, except he was a rock star.

A radio DJ, college student, and a trailblazer in the Chicano movement at just 21 years old, talking Chicano empowerment

on the air.

What are these people scared of?

That the Rasas going to get educated, that they're going to be able to go back and

empower the communities.

It's something that we've got to ask ourselves, Rasa, and something that we must continue

to ask ourselves because the lucha continue continue. We were close in age and ran in the same activist circles.

He was young, handsome, and charismatic.

He gave a platform to important Chicano voices on his show.

He knew that this government's not for us and that we needed to take action.

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