Great murals under the freeway which brought back memories when I was younger and used to play wall ball with my cousins. I would only see murals and that was all, but today I see them in a different perspective. Messages that we can interpret and get a better understanding as to what the artist is trying to say or express. I love art and now that I see them for what they are, makes me realize that not just words but art talks too. They tell stories that brings out meaning of what our people and community go through day by day. We are deprived of our own saying when it comes to standing up under oppression and suffering. Its hard for us to express in a society that does not care to listen and understand what minorities put up with and at the same time feel that our voices will never be heard.
Women are seen in these murals as birth giving and not as strong women with power and strength. why would that be? aren't we all human? what makes someone more powerful than the other? Questions we need to answer as our world is changing and society accepting us for who we are. we shouldn't be judges in our communities and we shouldn't be labeling persons for standing up to their own believes. What makes them better than who we are? Equality is a step that takes us backwards instead of forwards. When will change come? maybe a new movement to demonstrate that everyone is equal, that we all bleed red, that we might learn from children as they don't discriminate. Change has to happen and it should start with us taking that first step.
All murals were inspiring but this one caught my attention. As you can see this one shows El Paso as the heart of our two neighboring cities. It has arteries going from one direction to the other. We can say that to the north is our sister city of Las Cruces and to the south the city of Juarez. This mural shows that all three cities are joined together and if one suffers the other two also. Well when the incident happen in Walmart on August 3rd I was part of it in a sort of way. We were supposed to have gone to shop at Walmart but for some reason we ended up going to Sam's. We were just going in for two things but ended up looking at different stuff. We made more time than usual and we were heading out the door and they stopped us. It was a couple of minutes after the shooting started. We realized that if we hadn't stop to look at other things we would of been in the Walmart just minutes before the incident. The mural shows that the heart suffered a huge blow. El Paso was hurting and it still is. It's going to be a long process to heal and get better. not just El Paso suffered but also our neighboring cities with it too.
Time is on our side and sure eventually everything will go back to normal. We are a strong city and with the support from our sister cities we will get trough this.
This one was my second choice as it reminded me of one time our neighbors invited us to go pick onion. I was 15 and we didn't want to go but we got courage and decided to go. It was my brother, two cousins and me. so we got up at five in the morning and got on the bus that they had. they gave us the best cutter to use before picking up all other workers downtown. We got to the fields and started working. To make a long story short we did terrible. The other workers had to lend a helping hand in order for us to finish what was given to us. We managed to to make five dollars each. what I'm trying to say is that picking is a hard labor intensive job to do. I have the fullest respect for all farm workers doing what they do. Our people breaking their backs just so the elite can have their needs served in front of their eyes.
