Transfer Motivational Conference blog

The biggest highlight of the transfer Motivational Conference for me was the workshop i attended. the workshop i attended was called "que toca la musica: an historical overview of chicano music". It was about how chicano music came to be and how all types of muscic has influenced it. like for instance jimi hendrix, marvin gaye, cold blood, brenton led zepplin, james brown, the beatles, etta james, billy stewart, towere of power, and even micheal jackson. But not only musicians have influenced but the times they where living also, like there was a time where they were locking up all the chicanos in penetentionaries, and when people can out they would share what they had been through in their time there in music. also, groups would writes songs from the heart of what it was to be mexican and what the mexican people have been through having to cross the border and the american dream altoether. The speaker at my workshop really caught my attention in the way he spoke, his and gestures, the music of choice he used to show exapmles, and some of what he was spea=king of really got me into the topic of chicano studies and music. i feel that if they offered this at foothill i would take this class in a heartbeat. Another thing that was important to me at the transfer motivational conference at sacramento state was when the guest speaker was speaking which was none other than cruz reynoso, the first latino superior court justice. he spoke about how he believes that community college education should be free. and he spoke about his past experiances fighting alongside with cesar chavez to improve minority in california.