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Back in 2012, I googled myself. Hispanic Americans are not awful. [1]
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Date: 2025-06-20
Just sitting here, drinking my coffee. Thinking about how bad things are now. I can’t go protesting because I am a nana to a young girl and a wife to a man older than me that need my care, 54 years married!
I must say it was very interesting to come to know the Puerto Rican community and how different they were from me, a Mexican American kid from San Antonio who’s dad worked at Kelly Air Force base only a few miles away. My neighborhood was relined. My schools were described in Kozol’s Savage Inequalities. My Spanish was very different to Puerto Rican Spanish!
“All because his face was brown” Dylan
Governor Cuomo unveils Hispanic Heritage exhibit.
25 New Yorkers! Quite an impressive list, I was surprised to be on it.
Prominent Hispanic New Yorkers featured in the exhibit include: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice
Judge Carmen Ciparick, first Hispanic Judge on the Court of Appeals
Herman Badillo, New Yorks first Hispanic Congressman
Congresswoman Nydia Velzquez, New Yorks first Hispanic Congresswoman
Oscar Garcia Rivera, first Hispanic elected to the State Legislature
Olga Mendez, first Hispanic woman elected to the State Legislature
Angelo Del Toro, important State Legislator and first Hispanic chair of Black and Puerto Rican Caucus
Oscar Hijuelos, first Hispanic author to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Tito Puente, Musician
Rita Moreno, Actress and singer
Joan Baez, Musician and activist
Oscar de la Renta, Fashion designer
Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, Community health advocate
Ben Fernandez, Prominent business leader and politician
Nina Tassler, Entertainment industry leader
Elsa Salazar Cade, Award winning teacher
Joseph Unanue, Founder of Goya Foods
Luisa Moreno, Labor leader
Raphael Montaez Ortiz, Founder of El Museo del Barrio
Dr. Antonia Pantoja, Civil Rights advocate
Luis Ubias, President of the Ford Foundation
Esteban Belln, First Hispanic professional baseball player in the United States
Ignacio Molinet, First Hispanic professional football player
Lisa Fernandez, Olympic Gold Medalist
Rebecca Lobo, Former WNBA player
Sneaking in a ShelterBox reminder. Much love to you all!!!!
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