CUTE GIRL

Why should you stop whining? You haven’t experienced that disparity as a Black woman, a latina, or as a Native American women. Phillip Levine once said, “They (Blacks, Chicanos, Native Americans) endured a school system which conspired, I think consciously, to tell them they could not write and even if they could learn to write they wouldn’t write anything sophisticated or interesting enough to ever please this tremendous audience… In fact, they were told they were illiterate.”