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Vargas lost. I can't believe it. I wanted him to win so badly. His winning would have meant so much to us.
Colonia has always been "the barrio", the "wrong side of the tracks", the "ghetto" in this town. The only reason they built a decent school there is because of the new housing they're building on it's borders. And the only reason they're building there is that there isn't any other available space in the city.
Forever it has been an island, surrounded by fields. A place people drive by, but never stop. And that is crap.
For as long as I can remember there have three communities within Oxnard: Navy and retired Navy who have settled here, migrant workers and their descendants who have settled here and those who have weekend houses on the beach. (I'm simplifying, but you get the picture.) I don't need to explain the hierarchy of these three groups. It's self-explanatory.
85% of the population is Hispanic. And what are we known for? The Strawberry Festival. We are the Strawberry capital of the world. Nobody ever mentions why. Strawberries don't plant, tend and pick themselves.
Is he an angry young man? Yes. Does he have a lot of growing up to do? Yes. Here's another one. Did he defy the odds by surviving the gangs and make something of himself in the only way he knew how? Yes. Would this win have meant more to him personally than to De La Hoya? I think so.
But in the end, De La Hoya was the more skilled boxer. Maybe not the better fighter, but the better boxer. I guess I'm just an Oxnard girl at heart. I'll always root for the scrapper over the Olympic champion. But I'm telling ya, hearts are breaking all over this city tonight.
Colonia has always been "the barrio", the "wrong side of the tracks", the "ghetto" in this town. The only reason they built a decent school there is because of the new housing they're building on it's borders. And the only reason they're building there is that there isn't any other available space in the city.
Forever it has been an island, surrounded by fields. A place people drive by, but never stop. And that is crap.
For as long as I can remember there have three communities within Oxnard: Navy and retired Navy who have settled here, migrant workers and their descendants who have settled here and those who have weekend houses on the beach. (I'm simplifying, but you get the picture.) I don't need to explain the hierarchy of these three groups. It's self-explanatory.
85% of the population is Hispanic. And what are we known for? The Strawberry Festival. We are the Strawberry capital of the world. Nobody ever mentions why. Strawberries don't plant, tend and pick themselves.
Is he an angry young man? Yes. Does he have a lot of growing up to do? Yes. Here's another one. Did he defy the odds by surviving the gangs and make something of himself in the only way he knew how? Yes. Would this win have meant more to him personally than to De La Hoya? I think so.
But in the end, De La Hoya was the more skilled boxer. Maybe not the better fighter, but the better boxer. I guess I'm just an Oxnard girl at heart. I'll always root for the scrapper over the Olympic champion. But I'm telling ya, hearts are breaking all over this city tonight.