Hispanic doctor. It’s not an oxymoron.

LMSLynette M. Silva,
Dallas, TX.

My ethnicity apparently changes depending on the immediate environment. I get followed in stores here in Texas, and asked questions like, “Where are your people from?” But when I go to work–I’m a Ph.D.–I am told, “You’re Hispanic? I just don’t see it.”


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