Rep Lily Limon is Right on Hispanic Cultural Center - Homegirl of the Week.

I caught some of Representative Lily Limon's comments about the funding of the Hispanic Cultural Center and I have to say she's 100% right.

Bravo for her. When I think someone is wrong, I say so. When I think they're right, I do the same.

I am not always her biggest fan, but she's right on this one.

El Paso is a border city that is 80+% raza and we are one of the largest cities in the country without an Hispanic Cultural Center. That blows my mind. If we won't respect, honor, and value our culture, then who else will?

The fact that we've gone so long without one is a failure on the part of Latino leaders we've had in the past. But hell, you can barely get any of them to show up to a Cesar Chavez march.

We have to keep our soul.

The fact that a freaking swimming pool is so well funded but an Hispanic Cultural Center has to fight for scraps is - as we say in the barrio - gacho. The pool is for spoiled rich kids that go to private school. Not the rest of use that learned to swim at the public pool, in the rio grande or in arroyos.

Economically speaking, far more people will go to a cultural center than a pool for synchronized swimming.

If a community full of raza can't figure a way out how to adequately fund something that educates our future on the roots of our past, then how can we expect it to be done anywhere else?

Every last member of city council with a Spanish surname and identifies as raza in any way, shape or form, wake up. You have an obligation to the people you represent, you have an obligation to those who paved the way before you, and you have an obligation to those who will follow you to honor our culture. Do the right thing.

This one should come natural.

Representative Limon, you're my Homegirl of the Week.