VivirLatino

I admit it. I’m shameless about my politics around my children. For example my older daughter knows why we don’t take advantage of Colombus Day sales and why if I even see a millisecond of time given to revisionist history in her classroom, I march my ass and over with pages of real history for teachers to teach (ask some la Mapu’s teachers. It’s true). Pero my hija doesn’t know who I am endorsing for president. Not that I don’t talk about my dislike for McCain/Palin and the issues that keep me from jumping up and down about Obama. Pero my conversations with my hija reveal that her classmates’ parents are talking about the election too.

11 year old Mapu asked me the other day, ” Mami, is it true that Barack Obama’s middle name is Hussein?”

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