How many women watch as discrimination kills their hijos?
He’s the only one with dark skin so he must be the drug pusher in this school. I mean, they have no idea. Words scar deeper than any sword. They never called for an investigation. They heard a rumor and my son was guilty. As it turns out, the rumor came from someone of great intolerance. But m’hijo was condemned. We get what we expect. That school never expected a thing from m’hijo. “Woman, there is your son,” they seemed to be saying, “The drug pusher. The drug addict. Selling to support his habit. A dysfunctional child from a dysfunctional home.” They said he has and is “a problem.” I told them that the problem is that fifty-one percent of our hijos e hijas will not graduate from high school. Unacceptable statistic. I told them that if we are not a part of the solution then we are a part of the problem. In effect, our action or lack of action creates the problem. The action they took was to condemn the dark-skinned student instead of question the intolerant accuser. Unacceptable acti
