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...Work was very important to these kids. Most had jobs or were looking for them. Work defined who they were. If you had a job, you were somebody, you were not lazy. For these Latino families, work was so important it took a backseat to almost everything in the family. It didn't matter what kind of work you were doing as long as you were working and making money. Some Latino kids had no choice, they had to find a job to help pay the bills at home. Latino families expected their children to help pay for the household...
...Hearing Loco say that and watching the boys don their jerseys made me think of all the effort it had taken to reach this day. It was the first time that Latino boys at JM finally felt like a part of their school, like they belonged, and that they had a chance to bring honor to their school and community. They were no longer on the sidelines watching teams compete as Jets. They were now Jets themselves and they were eager and excited about their first game...
...boys pulled the white-and-blue jerseys over their heads, I gathered them together. I tried to say something to capture the moment."You are the first," I started. "Remember that you are getting the chance that many other Latinos at this school wanted but never got. You are the ones who are making history today. You are the first Latino Jets...
...What this is about is an anti-Latino sentiment that has been growing in this country," said Cesar Perales, president of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which filed suit last week in federal court to stop the Hazleton ordinance. Perales' group will ask the judge next week to block implementation of the law, set to go into effect in September...
...tests change my view of myself? Not really. I'll still put my check in the Latino box, imperfect as it is. If the process proved anything, it's that we're all a messy amalgam of centuries of mixing and migration. True identity, it seems, resides not in our genes but in our mind...