Julian Castro on VP role: ‘That’s not going to happen’

*From what I’ve been able to gather the Castro-as-VP-Candidate talk was just that, talk. There’s also talk of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez and California Congressman Xavier Becerra as  potential Veep picks. On the GOP side, Sen. Marco Rubio gave an emphatic No! to Trump and New Mexico Governor Sunna Martinez is said to be on a Trump short list. I think at this point it’s all idle speculation. What do you think? VL

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By Will Cadigan, CNN Politics

Suggested reading

Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement is the most comprehensive account of the arduous struggle by Mexican Americans to secure and protect their civil rights. It is also a companion volume to the critically acclaimed, four-part documentary series of the same title. This volume is a testament to the Mexican American community’s hard-fought battle for social and legal equality as well as political and cultural identity.

Since the United States-Mexico War in 1846-1848, Mexican Americans have striven to achieve full rights as citizens. From peaceful resistance and violent demonstrations, when their rights were ignored or abused, to the establishment of support organizations to carry on the struggle and the formation of labor unions to provide a united voice, the movement grew in strength and numbers. However, it was during the 1960s and 1970s that the campaign exploded into a nationwide groundswell of Mexican Americans laying claim, once and for all, to their civil rights and asserting their cultural heritage. They took a name that had been used disparagingly against them for years—Chicano—and fashioned it into a battle cry, a term of pride, affirmation and struggle.

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