Well, I'm not middle class nor white. I'm Mexican-American, whatever the hell that means. I was raised in Mexico but was born in the US and let me tell you, the border patrol make these cops look like puppies. Cute, fluffy puppies. Especially if they're hispanic or white women. They treat people crossing the border like dirt. If you're Mexican, even worse. Not to mention the cops in El Paso, the hispanic ones. They are horrible toward Mexican people.
I'm lucky that I look white and speak English fairly well. My dad was half white and half black and they always checked his ID and passport. Also, since all three of us, my siblings and I look very white, they would ask for ours passports all the time when crossing with him. My mom's whiter and looks more Spanish than Mexican, but one time, when she was younger, her car died in a gas station and the guy all but accused her of being a terrorist and called the cops. One came, but he was hispanic and treated my mom like dirt, threatening her until my mom was finally able to restart her car and drive off.
When I was born, the doctors left a piece of placenta in her. When she complained that she felt sick, this was in El Paso, they just placed her in an empty room because she was boing "difficult". When my dad went to look for her and she told him what had happened, he tore into them. When they finally took the placenta out, they did it without any anesthesia.
For myself, I'm really tall so most people don't mess with me. But after September 11th, I was telling the sigh language head, I was studying sign language at the time, that they should hunt those bastards down and take them out. I made the sigh for kill for emphasis. The next day, she took me out of class and had me wait in the hallway for campus cops to escort me off campus. I was shocked. I didn't know what was happening. I was so scared. Two weeks later, when I went to meet with the Vice President of student services and I explained what happened, he was like, WTF, but of course they let the suspension stand since I had been out two weeks and wouldn't be able to recover. So I lost that semester, and because I had financial aid, I had to repay that. I lost the entire year. That woman was white and blond.
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Date: 2013-07-14 11:22 pm (UTC)I'm lucky that I look white and speak English fairly well. My dad was half white and half black and they always checked his ID and passport. Also, since all three of us, my siblings and I look very white, they would ask for ours passports all the time when crossing with him. My mom's whiter and looks more Spanish than Mexican, but one time, when she was younger, her car died in a gas station and the guy all but accused her of being a terrorist and called the cops. One came, but he was hispanic and treated my mom like dirt, threatening her until my mom was finally able to restart her car and drive off.
When I was born, the doctors left a piece of placenta in her. When she complained that she felt sick, this was in El Paso, they just placed her in an empty room because she was boing "difficult". When my dad went to look for her and she told him what had happened, he tore into them. When they finally took the placenta out, they did it without any anesthesia.
For myself, I'm really tall so most people don't mess with me. But after September 11th, I was telling the sigh language head, I was studying sign language at the time, that they should hunt those bastards down and take them out. I made the sigh for kill for emphasis. The next day, she took me out of class and had me wait in the hallway for campus cops to escort me off campus. I was shocked. I didn't know what was happening. I was so scared. Two weeks later, when I went to meet with the Vice President of student services and I explained what happened, he was like, WTF, but of course they let the suspension stand since I had been out two weeks and wouldn't be able to recover. So I lost that semester, and because I had financial aid, I had to repay that. I lost the entire year. That woman was white and blond.