Posted on Saturday, 28 April 2012

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

James Baldwin, “On Language, Race, and the Black Writer” (via ethiopienne)

This somehow doesn’t apply to Latin@s. I know 5th generation Mexicans who are still Mexican-American. I, for one, would be glad if it took me 1000 generations to become “white”.

(via leftist-linguaphile)

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