Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library
Student project for LSCI 110 – Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College

 Uniting Communities: Romeo Garcia

Click here to read to read the research essay, “Uniting Communities”, by Marvin L. Osborne.

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an October 2005 interview by Marvin L. Osborne with Romeo Garcia,
who currently works for four departments at Skyline Community College,
which include Stars, Trio, and jointly with the writing and reading lab, and the Kababayan program.

 


Romeo Garcia in Action

 

Table of Contents:

1. Segment 1: Introduction and Background on Romeo
2. Segment 2: How he began

3. Segment 3: 1st Involvement

4. Segment 4 The Challenge of Organization

5. 1st Community Involvement

6. Who Gets The Blame

7. History Books

8. Expanding

9. The Media

10. Support

11. Comfort Zones

12. Fear?

13. A Challenge To All

 

 

 

 

 

Segment 1
This is the diary of Romeo Garcia!  A brief background on Romeo.
 

 

 

 

 

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Segment 2
When did you begin organizing and getting involved in the community?

 



 

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Segment 3
What was your first major community involvement?

 

 

Romeo interacting with the community

 

 
    

 

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Segment 4
Was it challenging to organize a group of people?

 

 

 



 

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Segment 5
What inspired you to get involved with the community?

 

 

 

 

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Segment 6
Why is the Filipino community going through these hardships?  Who is to blame?

 

 

 

 

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Segment 7
Do you believe that the way history is taught in America has contributed to the hardships and racial inequality that Filipinos and other minorities have experienced?

History Books

 

 

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Segment 8
Will you expand this community beyond Daly City, California?

 

 

 

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Segment 9
How have the media, government, and political figures responded to the work that the Filipino communities have been doing?

 

 


Old Bush and New Bush 

 

 

Segment 10

Have support from people, in general, increased?  Are the communities growing?

 

 

 

 

Romeo and others rallying for support

 

 

 

 

Segment 11

 Would increasing support require people to start coming out of their comfort zones?  Romeo’s challenge.

 

 

 

Are communities too comfortable?

 

 

 

 

Segment 12

Are some people afraid to get involved?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment 13

Is there anything else you would like to tell the world?  Challenge?

Romeo Garcia, you are now off of the hot seat!

 

 

 

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last revised: 12-20-05
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
These materials may be used for educational purposes if you inform and credit the author and cite the source as: North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library. All commercial rights are reserved. To contact the coordinator, or send comments or suggestions, email: Eric Brenner at brenner@smccd.net