Marisel Vera

“Vicente wanted to report that the luna and his henchmen were quick with the whip, but these men, haoles, americanos blancos, in starched collars and dark coats, considered themselves superior to the foreigners, those Others, those not like them, never like them. Others spoke Japanese or Spanish or any language not English. Others were natives from the islands that were all sun and play and populated with lazy men who were like children in need of a firm hand because they were brown or black or poor. Others must be taught how to work and to live and to submit to the higher knowledge of those not foreign, of those not Other. Vicente thought of these men as Inside Men: inside their houses, inside their stores, insider their family circles, inside their offices where they decided how to make money and how to keep it. Vicente knew that these Inside Men meant to share as little as possible with men like him, the Others who earned their money for them.”
― Marisel Vera, The Taste of Sugar