Word: mexican-american
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...Cole, a Mexican-American, accused the store's owner, Philip Nini, of using Spanish phrases sarcastically when evicting him from the store...
...1940s it had tried to offer them a separate facility in the basement.) Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare found that the school had still failed to eliminate vestiges of past discrimination. Soon after, the university adopted a new admissions policy: black or Mexican-American applicants would now be considered by a separate committee and admitted under lower standards than those required of whites. After four white students were rejected in 1992, they brought suit. Last year a federal judge ruled that the two-track system was an unconstitutional denial of equal protection. Because...
...anybody who travels widely in America will attest, there are deep pockets of obesity, especially in rural areas and among certain racial and ethnic groups. The CDC study found that the prevalence of obesity was nearly 50% for black and Mexican-American women -- compared with 33.5% for white women. In some Native American communities, up to 70% of adults are dangerously overweight...
...Mexican-American mother called to say her sick two-year-old had been left waiting five hours, then was turned away with only cursory examinations on two successive nights at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Hayward, California, 30 miles from San Francisco. Limp, dehydrated and near death, the child was finally admitted on the third day -- and immediately attached to an IV. Then, as she sat by her child's bed, the mother, a legal resident, was asked for her immigration papers. A Kaiser spokeswoman said the policy is to ask for insurance papers but not for immigration documents...
...have already heard a story of a 10-year-old Mexican-American child living in the greater Los Angeles area coming home from school crying the day after the election. The kids at school made fun of him saying. "Hey, Mexican, go home!" Are we a society that, 30 years after the Civil Rights Movement, wants to teach our children to be suspect of someone because of the color of his skin? I certainly hope...