My Latino kids don’t need affirmative action

Soon after landing a newspaper job in my early 20s, an editor asked if my parents were really proud of me.

The question perplexed me, and it was only years later that I understood the implication.

What the editor meant was “Hey, you’ve graduated from college and have a good job as a journalist, AND you’re a Hispanic woman. Your poor underprivileged parents must be beaming.”

The editor meant no insult, but he, like many, bought into the notion that if your parents aren’t born in the U.S., you must suffer from some deficiency.”*

*From: http://blog.nj.com
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