Ramon chunky sanchez biography sample

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Ramón “Chunky” Sánchez (October 30, 1951 – October 28, 2016)

Editor’s note: The ACTA board and staff was saddened to learn of Sánchez’ passing last month. ACTA invited longtime collaborator and public historian, Josephine S. Talamantez, to write her personal remembrance of Mr. Chunky Sánchez for this issue of The New Moon. Talamantez was a co-founder of Chicano Park in San Diego with Sánchez, and with Manny Galaviz, recently organized the nomination of Chicano Park as a National Historic Landmark, which is currently awaiting Secretary of the Interior’s signature for approval. 

Ramón “Chunky” Sánchez was my friend. I’m not unique because if you asked anyone who knew him, they would say the same thing. He was a very charismatic individual with a full-of-life ability to educate and entertain you and at the same time keep you laughing and/or crying, depending on the situation.

“Mr. Chunky” Sánchez—as he was lovingly referred to by the public, and “Chunky” by his family and friends—was an elder in the community, a community organizer, and a gang prevention expert, as well as a musician, songwriter/composer, storyteller, comedian, actor, activist, educator and cultural worker. More than anything else, to me, he was a social butterfly playing his music for

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The scourge of history

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are on my face,

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and in the veins of my body that aches.

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I do not ask for freedom.

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We are freedom!

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♪ We are not afraid ♪

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A lot of people
didn’t understand, what is Chicano?

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Well to me, Chicano is not necessarily
someone that was born in a certain place

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but rather a state of mind
and a state of heart.

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And I look back
on pictures then, and I thought

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oh my God, we were poor,
but I didn\'t feel poor at the time.

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Things were very simple.

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It’s like the Wizard of Oz says,
“There’s no place like home.”

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You’re talking about Chunky Sanchez

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from this little small
California rural town, Blythe,

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where it\'s like a blip
on a radar screen, you know.

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Growing up,
Chunky and his siblings

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