after years of having known someone you think you know them, then you have a child with a brown person and they pretend they feel the same until from time to time a racist comment comes out.
worst part: i've been Latina my whole life, but no one knows until i scream it into their ear. so my baby is as white as i am, but her father, and the man i love who i would never trade for any other man is the color of a Louis Vuitton bag. his last name is Prado. my last name since birth has been Diaz -- not exactly fucking Cunningham.
and then someone i've known for years says he can't get work in this town because the fucking Mexicans are underbidding him. fine. then he says another day that a Mexican stole his tools. fine. then he says he'd do anything they do for money if ONLY it was available to him, but it's not because of the Mexicans. DONE.
hahaha/Mexicans will do anything for cash! Mexicans are the new nigger! hahaha!!! people of color should not underbid me -- hilarious! when's the movie coming out!
listen here and listen close, so close you can smell the Modelo on my breath and feel my husband's Mexican sweat on my skin, so close you can see all the black neighbors that kept me from dropping a toaster into my bathtub, so close you can see the pupils of my eyes that will tell you my godfather is a Muslim, so close, so close.
MY womb harbored a Mexican child and she is more beautiful than the whole world, the entire universe.
In a way i hope this makes you uncomfortable. white as the driven snow, your judgments are safe until you're surprised. SURPRISE!
your hate will carry you nowhere. it's more distasteful than wearing fur. beyond that, you just can't be cosmopolitan and racist. and beyond that, however beautiful your soul is, no one can see it through your retarded scope if you're racist.
would you wear a t-shirt that says, "People that don't share my genealogy are lesser"?
if you'll wear that fucking shirt to the Coffee Bean and to your cocktail parties I'll have it made for you on my dime.
if you still feel the same and won't wear the shirt, we know who you are. and just so you know, us primitive minorities make up more of the GDP than Anglos. chew on that while you call your gardener a wetback.
--La Tierra de la Cha Cha Cha siempre te recordare!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
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