Border life safety, mass murder, lose.
Patricia Valdez-Harrison, El Paso, TX. El Paso Texas for the fourth year in a row as been reported to be the safest city in the...
“Si se puede” the famous quote.
Elaine Gastelum, Calexico, CA. My name is Elaine Gastelum and I’ve been raised in a small town called Calexico. Calexico is right next to the...
THE BORDER CROSSED ME: SOY CHICANA!
Leticia Hernandez, Lawndale, CA Chicanos, Mexican Americans, despised, ignored and looked upon as less. They are always surprised when we accomplish something. Or even when...
No, I didnt jump the border.
Anonymous, USA I’m Hispanic / Latino. it’s often a misconception that we’re all Mexican and that we are all illegal. I was born and raised...
Racism is not a harmless joke
Sofia Cuenca Rojas, Acworth, GA I am Hispanic and due in great part to my parents, who I am thankful for, I have been protected...
White. Live on Indian Reservation. Blessed!
Terry Larson, Cass Lake, MN. I have lived my whole life with Ojibwe people, am a fishing & canoe guide at the beginning of the...
Borderlands born. Always illegal. Always home.
Chuy Benitez, Houston, TX. When you grow up at the collision of two countries, of two cultures, of two identities, you learn very quickly the...
Race doesn’t matter; What’s inside does.
R.E.A.L. Talk, High Tech Middle Media Arts, 7th Grade Trailblazer Lots of people have asked me if I was Filipino. I’ve always had the same...
“You don’t know me, no judging”
As a kid, people call me brown sugar, or caramel, and think of me as a kid who crossed the border with her family illegally,...
Imaginary borders make us different “races”
Cesar Gonzalez, Sacramento, CA. Race is an illusion. Made up. Cosumnes River College
Sad truth: racism is still alive
Javier, Roma, TX. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, near the border with the US, there was not as much cultural or...
You’re spanish and don’t speak it?
Keatan Oliva, McAllen, TX. Growing up near the boarder of Mexico, where I would often cross with my mother to have lunch on weekends, it...
Standing on border of Mexican and White.
Deborah Torres, Saint Paul, MN. This has two meanings for me. First, I honor both my paternal (Mexican) and maternal (English, French & more) heritage....
Half white and half a man
David Conti, Grand Rapids, MI. What makes being half Mexican and half white so much more difficult is that I look 100℅ white. Half my...
