My Cop Dad & His Cop Buddies

This story still stings, but I’ll tell it anyway.
This story still stings, but I’ll tell it anyway.
My grandma votes Republican because she believes in three things: money, strength, and the rule of law. Whether the Republican Party stands for any of those things is beside the point because, to her, and to a lot of other people still, the Republicans represent those values more than the Democrats.
People who hate Mexicans don’t know much about them or the country they come from.
A letter to my Honduran grandma, who I love so much but who has some pretty messed up views about Black people and Mexicans.
Hector’s mom Yeni was born in a mountain village outside the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa and immigrated to Chicago when she was six.
Hector chats with his brother Chris Alamo, an actor and Marine based in Chicago.
Refusing to eat tacos is un-American
A chat with a sort of struggling Latino artist