I heard a discussion on NPR, in which they were arguing whether or not to let more brown people go to universities. The argument itself is insulting. Not taking race into account in the application process simmers with racism. The message is: keep everything equal across the board. Whites, Asians (who are the predominant population [...]
Tea Party, Tamale Party
In 1932 my mother Amanda survived the “Great Massacre,” in which the president of El Salvador, General Martinez, had 20,000 poor people killed in one month, calling them all communists. There was a logical reason for this: The New York Stock Market plummeted three years previous. When the U.S. gets poor, the rest of the [...]
McNair Scholar Students at Cal State Univ. Northridge–Simply Rock
I just returned home from doing a presentation before a group of students at CSUN. They’re all McNair Scholars, which means they’re pointing their ambitions toward graduate school. What I love about McNair Scholars: they hang out. They talk. I love it when students stay in a classroom after class just to pasear. That for [...]
Enuf Pissin’ & Moanin’ over “children”
Ya know, the other day I blogged about letting go of my movie “Tamale Road.” Sending it through the front door, like a child going off to college. Goodbye. How it hurts. Don’t get me wrong: it does hurt. Hurts to finish up a story & send it out to the world, not knowing if [...]
