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a once white Mexican girl
by Charlie Morganshe was just a white girl from Iowa,
until the information applecart
was spilled with just one question,
"you a Mexican? you are so tan!"
"my mother is Guatemalan, daddy, white."
"but your hair is so dark, eyes so brown,
so you must be a Mexican."
"what's a Mexican?" her curiousity raised.
"well, that's what you are, a Mexican."
a mississippi trail of tears went home
with the little white girl cum Guatemalan.
all these questions in her juvenile mind
and question One was begging for an answer.
"yesterday i was white,
today i'm a Mexican.
exactly how does that work." 04/03/2008 Posted on 04/03/2008
Copyright © 2026 Charlie Morgan
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| Posted by George Hoerner on 04/03/08 at 09:43 PM Very nicely done Charlie. Amazing how our prejudices stick out all over us and how the hurt those we don't even know. My son works with a man that walked here all the way from Guatemala! He says he has never known anyone who worked so hard. This man keeps an interesting diary in which he writes everything twice - once in his Spanish and once in English. That is how he has learned to communicate so well. He sends almost all of his money back to his family. |
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