Posted on 04/06/2026 10:05:38 AM PDT by Beowulf9
On a warm Sunday afternoon in February, the Huntington Library was packed with Lunar New Year festivities and early spring fever. A dozen giddy preteens gathered at the entrance, eager to walk on the pristinely landscaped San Marino grounds. Sporting brown berets and screen-printed vests with colorful hand-sewn badges, they followed chaperones inside as guests waiting in line recognized them.
"Oh, my God," one fangirl said as another clapped. "It’s the Radical Monarchs!"
Remaining calm and composed amid the applause, the tightknit group of girls strutted straight past bright red-clothed calligraphy tables and tea ceremonies to the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery for the highly anticipated "Radical Histories" exhibit, spanning six decades of Chicanx and Indigenous resistance and cultural reclamation through printmaking.
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Monarchs? I thought we had no monarchs, except for butterflies maybe. And Chicanx? What species are they/them?
Diversity beez our Strength
So many kids indoctrinated by their teachers and also by their parents.
Truly heartbreaking.
Isn’t this racist?
The Brown Berets, from Wiki:
“ The Brown Berets (Spanish: Los Boinas Cafés) is a Chicano paramilitary organization that emerged during the Chicano Movement in the United States during the late 1960s.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Berets
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