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Americanos

This is a visual reminder as a way to help you think next time you say the word Americans in reference to USA citizens.
These are the Americas. Therefore everyone who live here from South to North and North to South are Americans.

This… is only a part of America.

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This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

The following is a quote  from a speech by Abolitionist Frederick Douglas. It would not surprise me if this is the first time your read something like this. This is one of the many examples of how dissident views of the history and cultural “meaning makings” have been suppressed by the USA institutional educational and religious [...]

It is not just about the last 8 years.

It is not just about the last 8 years.
To assume that change will happen by just focusing on November 4 is a naive view of history and a adolescent understanding of democracy. On Nov. 4 people will elect a new administrator in the same system of power that perpetuates itself. There are bigger systems than [...]

Brown is the New Green

Brown is the New Green

Brown is the New Green:
George Lopez and the American Dream - Synopsis
Finally there is someone that you can invest in that looks like you, speaks like you, relates to things you relate to, and make our culture okay to talk about.” - George Lopez

Numbering 44 million, Latinos are not only [...]

The other September 11

Chile
September 11, 1973

 

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