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    • 11 Mar 06
    • 7:47 pm

    I thought it was interesting that you chose to include an image of Southern cotton fields with this article. I am a Hispanic-American, the product of a family that, until my father's generation, worked the cotton fields. I will always remember one day, when I was young, my uncle took me to an old theater in a small Texas town and told me that when he was a teenager he couldn't go to the movies because he'd get beaten up if certain people found a "dirty wetback" daring to show his face there. About the time he finished telling me that, …

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