I Was Just, Like, Not At All

Mexico. Melancholy, Profoundly Right And Wrong, It Embraces As It Strangulates.

I Had Serious Reservations About Putting My Son In The Public Schools In My Area. I Have A Tremendous Amount Of Fear For The Future Of My Boy. He's Nine-and- A-half And Dark-skinned. By The Time He's 12 Or 13, Who Knows Who He's Going To Be Identifying With In These Days When You Get Shot Down For Wearing Expensive Nikes To School...i've Heard That If A Latino Makes It To 19 Years Of Age, He Has A Good Chance Of Surviving Into Adulthood. Up Until Then, You Don't Know.

When One Of Us Dies Of Cancer, Loses Her Mind, Or Commits Suicide, We Must Not Blame Her For Her Inability To Survive An Ongoing Political Mechanism Bent On The Destruction Of That Human Being. Sanity Remains Defined Simply By The Ability To Cope With Insane Conditions.

When I Hear That Jennifer Lopez Is Such A Role Model For Latinas, On The One Hand I Respect Her For Her Business Sense And I Respect Her For Her Ambition. But She's In The Entertainment World. She's Done It On Her Looks And Very Specifically On Her Anatomy. Madonna Is Also Considered A Great Businesswoman And So Is Yoko Ono. I Feel If I Had A Young Daughter Right Now, I Would Feel A Little Discouraged If That Was My Daughter's Primary Role Model For Success And For Young People, For Latinas And Latinos.

What You Perceive As "liberal" Is My Independence To Choose What I Do, With Whom, And When. Moreover, It Also Means That I May Choose Not To Do It, With Anyone, Ever.