Post in Today in the Daily Planet, 9/11/07

2007 Sep 12 02:46 UTC

Editor - Mary Turck wrote:
> INSIDE THE DAILY PLANET
>
> Zapata comes to Powderhorn
> http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/6633
> by Ed Felien, Southside Pride
> On behalf of the State of Morelos, the governor, Marco Castillo,
> presented a statue of Emiliano Zapata to the City of Minneapolis
> Saturday, Aug. 25, at Los Gallos, 1855 E. Lake St., in the Powderhorn
> Community. Club Morelos accepted the gift on behalf of the City in
> the hope that the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will accept
> the statue and install it on a hill in the northeast corner of
> Powderhorn Park.
>
>
Mark Anderson:
As was pointed out in an earlier posting, it is too bad to have a
militaristic hero for Chicanos to emulate in Powderhorn Park.  I agree
we can't turn down a gift from Mexico, and Zapata is a Mexican hero.
But I'd hate for impressionable Mexican kids to get the idea that the
way to be a hero is to pick up a gun.  Doesn't Mexico have any
non-militaristic heroes?  That's what I'd like to see in Powderhorn, or
even better, right on Lake Street.