Medrano / Changing the Culture of the Dallas ISD
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And then when they turn around and said, they are going to name our school and were going before the school board and by that time I was elected in 1974 to the school board. I had ran in 1972 in March, took 10% of the vote, citywide, ran in 73 and took 15%, put down the numbers now and I won all predominely Hispanic and heardly African American areas, so I knew that I had support as far as political black and brown, so when I won led better, you know the areas you see we can't, we can't win and how are we going to change the school until we get somebody on the school board because you have somebody and says, and that wont be probably done unless you can really work that board, the reason [?] they want to motivate, role model, whatever. Thats what started slowly to get me to run and at that time we go back to Dallas legal services [?] Mike Daniels, Mike Daniels is the one that made the lawsuit against Dallas high school authority, his wife is now town commissioner. Teresa Daniels, Teresa Daniels is Mike Daniels husband and he would work for Dallas Legal Services [?] and so they filed a lawsuit on single member district. We got enough data here [?] that ran for school board, same time that I did, at large and generated 50% of city [?] and at that time justified racial polarization and single handeldy won, ran in 74, got elected, and now he gave out racial surfaces now, now we got the boys that can make the motion or tried to articulate the [?], i'm now a focal point for them now as a Brown Beret,lol,because now your on the other side and I need to [?] Zapata was you know, Zapata is a socialist, Zapata is a Mexican and we didn't have no policy that [?] American Citizen, who could name Nelson Mandela, who could name anything and now they start crafting the policy: must be an American Citizen, must be dead, so if you got any politicians thats right now, na mea school after Mayor Rollins, no cause hes a politician that's living now even though he wants the school named after him, the one that got away with it was W. T White, he broke the rule of that policy, former superintendant of Dallas Independant for 25 years, 25 years, [?] wer're talking about a racist superintendant that was a racist superintendant, 25 years. Interviewer-"Well, what 25 years, between what years was that do you think?" Mr. Medrano-He left in 78. Interviewer-"So, like the 50s or 20th." Mr. Medrano-Yea, 25-78, so that's the one that practices, you must go to [?] I mean he's the one that said [?] the West Dallas people [?] you cannot go to [?] or Adamson which is again [?] 80%, 90% of the people you see today at that age right now 50 year olds, 60 year olds, they all graduated from [?] and [?] it was obvious that racial discrimination was obviously happening because lot of the Hispanics are moving living across the street from the high school, across the street from sunset, across the street from North Dallas High School, across the street from Thomas Jefferson High School and then go to [?] thats it, eradicated and then it go back to any school I wanted to as long as we lived within, I'm not going to go all the way to Adams or go to W. T. White, but North Dallas I can because that's within distance, Adams and Sunset those are schools within distance....