by Vanesa ‘Littlecrow’ Colon-Ortiz<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n Vanesa is an artist, cartoonist, professional model, and owner of VasLittlecrow.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 1999 Vanesa ‘Littlecrow’ Colon-Ortiz. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Puerto Rican Woman by Vanesa ‘Littlecrow’ Colon-Ortiz November 1999 I am a mixed-blooded citizen of the United States of America, as was my great-great grandmother, my great grandmother before me, my grandmother and my...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[94,110],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tma-articles-and-commentary","tag-poetry","tag-the-multiracial-activist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-6j","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/08\/Articles-and-Commentary.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNovember 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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I am a mixed-blooded citizen<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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of the United States of America,<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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as was my great-great grandmother,<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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my great grandmother before me,<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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my grandmother and my mother.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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This is how I know I’m an American.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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But you, young man whose<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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grandparents lived in Europe<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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long before they went to Ellis Island,<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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Disagree with my viewpoint, vehemently.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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You want me to go back to Mexico<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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even though I never lived there.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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You claim that true Americans<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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speak English only and that<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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I should forget my other languages.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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So it really doesn’t matter that<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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I read Cervantes and Shakespeare<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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to pass the my idle time while<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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you consider Jerry Springer<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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a wealth of valuable information.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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In your mind, the American Way<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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is the path towards stupidity.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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In your mind, I am simpleton because,<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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I have an accent and people who speak<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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“good English” don’t.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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(At least, they think they don’t.)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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In your eyes, you see me as a hostile<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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dark-skinned foreigner even though<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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my blood is as mixed as yours and<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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my roots here are longer than yours.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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So, even if you do mind, I’ll<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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vehemently disagree with your views.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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Perhaps you haven’t noticed,<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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but America is a Spanish variant<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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of an Italian man’s name.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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The natives of the land<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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before the Spanish named her<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0weren’t of British blood.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
\nAlso by Vas Littlecrow<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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