"I grew up in Texas. I remember many friends with very little that were ESL students, and I remember one friend who helped to teach me Spanish as I taught him English, with taped shoes.
He was relentlessly bullied. And I defended him. I remember thinking that my classmates showed a shocking lack of empathy, and looking back at it, is was clear even then a feeling that somehow immigrants were less than human was building. That was many years ago.
This hurts me to my core. These human beings are just trying to find a better life. To be cast aside as if they were plastic washed along the shore is a sort of point of no return for one’s very soul."
~ ROC
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