(Ed.'s Note: We often get persistent comments decrying the fact that we present an alternative view to the history books, mass media, and our society's entire cultural upbringing that say very little about our Hispanic heritage and glorify the dominant white race. The fact is there were good and bad people in every race, but if you read the school books and literature, there is very little said about good Hispanics. You would think we didn't exist. Well, here we are. In the poem below, every other line is in Spanish, or conversely, in English.)
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ESTIMADO MISTER
By Juan Montoya
The school is yours
La lengua nuestra
And still you insist on English
Para niños y maestra
Speaking in Spanish, you say
Nos volvera analfabetos
But even Oxford's won't show you
Como se gana el respeto
Mexican, Cuban, Hispanic
No ve valor en ninguna
But we can function in both
Y Ud. solamente en una
You've never witnessed a child
Comprendiendo una lección
When you use his mother tongue
En vez de la del sajón
Your paperwork and degrees
Dis'que es persona educada
Maybe that's why you come up
Con tan chulas pendejadas
c/s