denouement,

vernacular forms

The article presents the author's views on the history of the zoot suit which was popular among minority men in the U.S. in the 1940s. The Zoot Suit Riots in June 1943 is discussed wherein Mexican American men were beaten up

This stranger, my father, had borrowed money from everyone he knew and hired a smuggler to take me and my siblings north to his home in the United States, where we were to begin a new life together. So, at the age of 9 and a half, I found myself at the US border and became an “illegal” human being by crossing without permission for a chance to finally have a family.

Illustration: “A Little Prayer for Those Who Migrate,” by Jake Prendez Author Reyna Grande, in her essay “Immigration & Transformation” writes about her literary metamorphosis and how “all of us who love books” are in this fight for human rights together. http://ow.ly/j1El50xGIuQ

Rather than look us in the eye, many gabachos prefer to look down their noses at us. Rather than face that we are their moral and intellectual equals, they happily pity us. Pity is what inspires their sweet tooth for Mexican pain, a craving many of them hide. This denial motivates their spending habits, resulting in a preference for trauma porn that wears a social justice fig leaf.

More people than you would think believe that the blue checkmark = trustworthy. But all the blue checkmark really does is say that the person is who they say they are, that they are the person of that name and not an imposter. Your two-second “mirror and head-check” here is going to be to always, always hover, and see what they are verified for. In this case the verification means something: this person works for CNBC.com, a legitimate news site, and she covers a relevant beat here (the White House):