My Ethnicity is Under Attack

Cross posted from our sister site, LA Moms Blog.

I never thought I´d live to see the day when being a Latino in the United States would make you a suspect.  When speaking the language that we identify with and learning about our heritage and our ancestors would alienate and marginalize us.

I know it sounds extreme because I don´t live in Arizona, I am a U.S. citizen and, well I don´t even "look" like the immigrants it's obvious they've got on their radar. You could easily assume these horrendous racial profiling movements, masked as immigration laws, don´t directly affect me. But, they do.

I have been in a state of shock and utter dismay ever since Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed immigration bill SB1070 into law and made it legal to imprison anyone who looks or smells like an illegal immigrant and that happens to not be carrying their documents when they went out for diapers in the middle of the night.  I'm in shock because it terrifies me that even a small percentage of our free and progressive nation can point a finger at my ethnicity and attack it as the cause of all that ails them.  It affects me because I want my daughter to grow up proud of who she is, where she comes from and of her ethnic background.

Continue reading Anna's post at LA Moms Blog.