I like how we are all Hispanic until we're not Hispanic.

How my accent is thick until you hear it from another tongue.

How I say concón but someone else say pagou, then obviously I'm not Hispanic.
Or they aren’t Hispanic.
Or we're not Hispanic because we don't eat it much.

I like how we are Hispanic until we say we were born here.
I like how we're still called illegal even though we were born here.

I like how that since I look darker I'm not Hispanic. Because that obviously offends you. Or is it my nose? My hair? Does all my features offend you?

Does the fact that all Hispanics, all across the world, come in different sizes, colors, and accents, offend you?

Why are we always categorized in 2 different categories?
Either born here or not?
Either speaking the native tongue or not?
Either Hispanic or not?

Does the fact that I cannot speak Spanish offend you?
Does the fact that I can speak Spanish offend you?
Why does my Spanish offend you?
Because you cannot speak it?
Is it that you don't have the right tongue to say pokito, salchichon, naranja, or sancocho?
Does it offend you when I correct you when you're wrong?

These are the questions many of Hispanics from all around the country ask.

We are told we are wrong about our own culture.
Our  people
Our  land
Our music
Our food
Our skin
Our hair
Our kids
Our love
Our  livelihood

They try to correct us about something they could not understand.

How our music has so much rhythm, that it could bring celebration to a funeral.
How our food will never leave anyone hungry.
How our accents speak of love, and life, and memories, and sacrifice, and pain, and family.

Why are Hispanic girls b****es?
Why are Hispanic women sexy until we're b****es?
Why are we opinionated until we have attitudes?
Why are they always prepared for us to bark but never for us to bite?
Why must we always bite to get our point across?

Why are all Hispanic men alcoholics?
Why do Hispanic men have so many families?
Why do all Hispanic men go to jail?
Why do all Hispanic men quit school at 16?
Why do they work in factories for a year then go sell drugs?
Why do all Hispanic men cheat?

Why are we exotic, if we grew up in the same neighborhood?

This country likes to give latinas the labels of crazy and b****. We are crazy because we see the lies of others. We are b****es because we say no.

A latina’s bark so loud you can hear her 5 miles away, and her bite is twice as bad. Just talk to her mother.

Latinos are uneducated so they don’t have jobs, but if they don’t have jobs they can’t support their families, so then they drink, so then they go to jail. So then their son is the man of the house and must repeat the process of his father with no escape to this cycle.

Is this why latinos are loud, obnoxious, lazy, uneducated, and misunderstood?
Is this why I won’t go to college?
Is this why you assume my brothers are in gangs?
Is this why you assume I’m in a gang?
Is this why you assume I’m illegal?
Is this why you assume we’re all Mexican?

These constant stereotypes are crushing our people.
We are constantly remedied that we are ghetto, hoodrats, and not wanted.

Why are we at war with our own?
Why is one race better than other?
Why is your accent right but mine is wrong?
Why can’t we love each other for the similarities we have, and stop hating on each other because of the differences?

These were all rhetorical questions; so why do some of you have answers?