Social Commentary
It was a black tie affair but she didn’t wear a tie, black or otherwise, because she was a woman. To her, it was a white cocktail dress affair, a cheap one she borrowed from Valeria, a cousin of hers endowed with the same shapely figure. “You look like Madeline …
Texas was dead: to begin with… at least for Jerry. “As soon as I turn eighteen, I’m outta this shit bowl!” He didn’t actually move until he was nineteen because it always took him a year to follow through on something, but he did get the hell outta Dodge like …
If I told you my name you’d call me Rafa; if I told you who I was, you’d call me crazy. But that’s okay. I have a hard time believing it myself sometimes－that I was that man that was featured in that news story about that crazy incident that happened …
It doesn’t always have to be out in the open. Sometimes I can just sense it. If a person calls me a “beaner” or a “wetback” to my face, it takes the guesswork out of it, but there are times when a racist doesn’t have to be an outright racist—I can just sense it; …
