We've had the Spanish beaten out of us. When my grandparents went to school, they were hit for speaking Spanish. My mother too. My family opted not to teach my brother and me Spanish as a form of protection. I'll struggle speaking for the rest of my life.https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/1145799220324122624 …
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For both my African American and Latino heritages, I'll never have a complete picture of them because of violent and intentional oppression. The best I can offer my sons is art and language that has somehow been lovingly preserved by other people. I'll never recover it all.
2:13 PM - 1 Jul 2019
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