This Sunday, the Carnaval Grand Parade returns to the streets of San Francisco's Mission, including a procession of lowriders that is always a highlight.
40 years ago, Roberto Hernandez was engaged in what was considered at the time criminal activity: He was riding low and slow on the streets of San Francisco.The experience inspired him to form the Lowrider Council of San Francisco to fight police crackdowns on lowriders which he saw as being excessive and motivated by racial bias.
"I felt proud to be brown and cruising down the street in my lowrider from then until this day," he said."It's just a great feeling." "Lowriders are in music videos, movies, commercials. We've been invited be a part of the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge," he said."We get invited to all these social gatherings that I would have never imagined being invited to."
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