Elenamary

High School sucked, racism made it suck more…but damn trying to hang someone while screaming racist slurs, come on Ohio, we can do better.
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Teen Accused of Tying a Noose Around a Latino
An Ohio teen accused of dragging a Latino young man in a parking lot with a noose last year has been sentenced to 10 [...]

In sixth grade I remember checking out books on Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and wanting to be like her when I grew-up.  I figured I could be President first and then a Supreme Court Justice.  Some point during high school I came to believe that Presidents really didn’t have as much power as [...]

I first met Joseph (José) Mas in the early 2000’s when he came to speak to my Latino Studies class.  That quarter on a weekly basis different local Latino leaders came to speak to us.  I prejudged José Mas, thinking, “here comes this white Cuban lawyer who is going to be another anti-Castro, GOP mouth [...]

Monday, May 4th the Columbus Dispatch had an Editorial “Tighten ID process: Bureau of Motor Vehicles makes it too easy for people to commit fraud“.  The opening line:
“Ohio is known to illegal immigrants as the place to go to score an easy ID, and that’s unacceptable.”
This statement is offensive in all kinds of ways.  First [...]

I got pepper sprayed at the 2007 Festival Latino, so did my mother, my boyfriend, and the families standing around us.
The pepper spraying in 2007 was at best annoying.  My boyfriend and I had gone to help my mom tear down her booth, where she was a vendor.  The police came through telling the crowd [...]

I was offended by the following…though I find myself unable to clearly articulate why.  It gives me the same feeling as when someone  referring to a Latino says “They are spicy!” as a compliment.