Sep 7, 2018
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"Holy smokes"
My daughter says this is the whitest thing she's ever said
"And I'm only 25% White!"
Her math:
50% English
25% Mexican
25% White (American)
She has, by age 13, absorbed my definition of "White People" (and English people do not count)
She got the 25% from my 50%
The dilution continues.
She has blue eyes and pale skin
with our dark hair
Thank God for the dark hair
But she tells me she won't have a quinceañera
Certainly not with misa in a church in Tijuana, like I did.
She says no one believes that she is Mexican
They didn't believe me either.
A name like Jennifer
My father's Irish surname
I could not run for Señorita Cinco de Mayo
They would have laughed me out of MEChA
had I tried to join.
I did not try.
I tend to the 25%
