Sam Ortiz > Recent Status Updates

“I used to resent the fact that she didn’t teach me Spanish, that she didn’t maintain our family traditions… Identity is defined as much by what you have as what you’ve lost. Wanting to recover those things was like feeling homesick for a home I never had. That, to me, is Chicano.”

I’m just so curious

This is so good and yet so hard to get through. The history of colonization is heart wrenching. I am devastated at all that Indigenous and Mexican people have lost. What would these rich communities have looked like today if they had been allowed to thrive, uninterrupted by white greed?