25 11 / 2012
Noface- nameless: In one-year anniversary of Joaquin Luna's passing
My heart aches… in thousand different places
because.
because this was something I had thought about …in the past.
When I felt so alone, and hopeless after graduation. When I blamed myself for not being able to attain…
05 11 / 2012
"I was supposed to be a Mexican, then came Manifest Destiny and I became Mexican American, then came the Census Bureau and I became Hispanic, then came that white woman and I became a spic, then came that one Ethnic Studies class and I became Chicano, then came Cherríe Moraga and I became Xicano. In the end, it’s just me and my unsolicited opinion."
(via quecaigaelsistema)
10 9 / 2012
Undocumented & Unafraid: Why I Am Not and Will Not Be Proud to be "American"
Far too often I have been scolded, told I should be proud to be “American,” to be born in the U.S. Do I acknowledge I have had privilege I could not have had in the home of my family because of my life here? Yes. I need only remember the stories my mother and father can…
(Source: xicanaxingona)
10 8 / 2012
Your pre††y face is going to hell.: la—serena: “But the color of the skin does not define the indigenous...
“But the color of the skin does not define the indigenous person: dignity and the constant struggle to be better define him. Those who struggle together are brothers and sisters, regardless of the color of our skin or the language that we learned as children.”—
Subcomandante…
(via platanos-fritos)
30 6 / 2012
un piensamiento
While as a light-skinned Chicano con papales from a stable household in a predominantly low income neighborhood with high dropout rates and crime…I have to say - I personally feel as if I am trying to prove I’m “Mexican” enough, that because of my speech and pigmentation, I’m not a “sellout”, that because I talk ‘white’ doesn’t mean I’m trying to be ‘white’. i brush up on my barrio history, support la lucha, for the well being of the greater community but to also remind myself that i am too Chicano and can be apart of contributing with folks to the cause. even listening to corridos and speaking spanglish in order to enseńar que yo soy uno of the Mexicò-americanos.
.meanwhile…….you have a great portion of undocumented Latina/os trying to assimilate and show that their just as American and wear brand name clothes, knowing the mainstream artists…people you would assume are not of an immediate immigrant generation or are separated from their ethnic heritage, because they’re trying their best to take on this segunda identity of their previous pais.
just an observation. maybe ill never be good enough for some people (especially ella). I’m not trying to be a victim, but just typing some words on this thing.
