Letter To The Editor: Growing Up Mexican-American In Los Alamos
Potomac, Md.
As a former resident of Los Alamos I read the Los Alamos Daily Post frequently. April 25, 2021, I read with keen interest the letter to the Editor titled “Growing Up As Asian American – The Model Minority Myth” by Olivia Koo.
Ms. Koo touched on a topic of great interest to me, and she presented it eloquently. Her statement “One could say that Los Alamos is a manifestation of the model minority myth” was spot on.
I am Mexican-American. My family moved to Los Alamos Aug. 15, 1943, when I was six years old. When I began the first grade at Central School, when K-12 were all located under one roof, I did not know how to speak English. My father had a better command of English than my mother and myself, which was still limited.
Letter To The Letter: Your Kids Are Watching (And Mine Are Too)
Los Alamos
“Let’s move because of those Chinese people over there.” My kids continued to play, oblivious to the racist remark the mom of three had just made at Mesa. I was seething.
Fake coughs, lots of them. Oh, you think you’re so funny, jogger mom at Canyon Rim, exercising dude at Urban Park, and fellow patron at Smith’s?
There’s also the teenagers who screamed terrible, racist things at my parents as they drove by, twice.
Racism and hate are not funny nor comedic, as Hank Azaria and Jay Leno have had to admit.
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