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“Stupid America, remember that chicanito / flunking math and English / he is the Picasso / of your western states / but he will die / with one thousand masterpieces / hanging only from his mind.” In his poem, “Stupid America,” Chicano activist poet Abelardo “Lalo” Delgado decries the lack of opportunity faced by his people: children let down by the educational system; artists and poets unable to express their creativity. “That chicano / with a big knife / he doesn’t want to knife you / he wants to sit do

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