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• 26-Jan-2024

  
  Passing in Tempe? I’m in Tempe Arizona this morning. It’s a lovely place. This is alongside the river this morning. I like to swim. I can’t swim here. So where can I swim? There’s a pool at the hotel. There’s a YMCA. Those would work. But where’s the fun in that. In researching this I came up with...

  Arizonahistoryraceswimming
• 31-Mar-2008

  
  Race & Cesar Chavez Day Did you know that today is Cesar Chavez day? It is. I don’t reference my heritage as a person of Mexican descent very often, if at all. My mother’s side of the family practiced assimilation. The kids were discouraged from learning Spanish. The story I was told was that my maternal grandparents (now both deceased)...

  activismcalifornialaborrace
• 14-Oct-2001
  Quote of the Day I think because I went to a pretty white school, that I really don’t look Latin, I don’t have dark eyes, I never had dark hair, so I don’t think a lot of people put two and two together. But I was always proud of my Latino roots and proud of my Irish roots. I...

  Christina Aguileraraceracismvia-blogger