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José Alfredo Menjivar

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    José Alfredo Menjivar changed their profile picture
    7 years, 10 months ago
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    TRAUE Special Issue on #BlackLivesMatter

    “HERE” by Tiffany Lenoi Jones

    I am here.

    I am their teacher tiff, t-dollas, booboolanda, ti-ti, ey yo tiff,  tiffany, and Ma!
    I am their mother, auntie, big sister
    I am their co-conspirator
    I am thei […]

    8 years, 3 months ago
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    TRAUE Special Issue on #BlackLivesMatter

    And here we are again.
    Why do we have to say Black Lives Matter?
    We do
    because so many things have happened –

    so many things have changed,
    and yet so many things
    seem to remain the same.

    We […]

    8 years, 3 months ago
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    TRAUE Special Issue on #BlackLivesMatter

    I close my eyes and tell myself that what I feel is not real.

    It is weakness
    and I cannot be weak.
    Not in front of you.

    I am peaceful.
    I am strong.
    That’s what I tell myself.

    But there is an e […]

    8 years, 3 months ago
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    TRAUE Special Issue on #BlackLivesMatter

    After all is said and done
    the hands come down
    the chants stop
    the mouths close
    the signs are put away

    Time and morning threaten
    to wash us out
    we retreat to our homes
    before they arrive

    We get to go […]

    8 years, 3 months ago
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    TRAUE Special Issue on #BlackLivesMatter

    Cultivating Racial Identity in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter

    What do you say about race to a 3-year old who speaks of race as though they were shades of crayons in a Crayola box? A child who existed these […]

    8 years, 3 months ago
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    TRAUE Special Issue on #BlackLivesMatter

    We been striving for our people to be free
    They want change but some can’t see
    It’s our time we been waiting to long
    Jim Crow know by the end of this song
    We feel Obama cause he look like us
    They nev […]

    8 years, 3 months ago
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    TRAUE Special Issue on #BlackLivesMatter

    Attention Attention
    My Brother’s and Sistas
    We have a serious epidemic goin on out here
    Racism must stop
    I’m down with Black Lives Matter on this one
    Big shout out to the Beat Minerz, Let’s Go

    I can’t […]

    8 years, 3 months ago
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    meghanmmw and José Alfredo Menjivar are now friends
    11 years, 4 months ago
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    José Alfredo Menjivar became a registered member
    11 years, 10 months ago

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