Don't Ask Me Where I'm From (A LatinX Coming-of-Age)

by Jennifer De Leon

“Sixty years later, and the fact is, white kids still go to white schools and Black kids go to Black schools. I mean, except us. But like, there has to be a program for it.”

“At one point the government spent twelve billion dollars on constructing some kind of fancy lighting to detect people crossing the border. That’s insane! Can you imagine if they’d used that money to, like, build better schools in Central America or Mexico instead?”