September 2, 2011
Does the hyphen syphon equality?
This piece was featured on Being Latino Magazine. And yes, that is a picture from my soccer playing days.I forget how old I was when I first learned that I am Mexican. This to me is not necessarily a bad thing — depending on how the information is presented. You can easily shape a child’s perception of specific people or put a chip on their shoulder at an early age. What is that going to do for them? Ultimately, it will affect the way they build relationships growing-up and in school. Understandably, later on down the line they will wise up to the realities of society; so no...
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