Night Before Christmas – Tex-Mex Style
‘Twas the night before [tag]Christmas[/tag] and all through la casa Not a creature
was stirring, Caramba! Que pasa?
Los ninos were all tucked away in their camas, Some in vestidos and
some in pajamas. While Mama worked late in her little cocina, El viejo was
down at the corner cantina.
The stockings were hanging con [...]
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Recently a local news, KTRK, reported on an interesting Christmas card they received from a student organization from a couple of nearby universities, University of St Thomas and Rice University. The Christmas card KTRK received was “filled with racial expletives” and “depicts Santa as a [tag]Nazi[/tag], proclaim intolerant beliefs on religion and race and [...]
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Back in April, I wrote that Texas was becoming home of the new American concentration camp because Williamson County’s T. Don Hutto Correctional Residential Center, a private detention facility in Taylor, Texas, became the newest facility for Homeland Security that would house “immigrants not from Mexico, but caught in Texas.”
While we sit in our [...]
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This was just emailed to me and I figure I would share with everybody.
An Overdue Visit
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the nation
Friends of Freedom knew it was a special occasion.
Lady Liberty stood taller just off the shore
Her torch shining brighter than a few weeks before
But it wasn’t the flame turning her [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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