Fixing the migrant bussing problem?

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67. My wife often rides the bus.

Believe it or not most of them were trumpers in the last elections.

She can quite easily pass as gringa here in Iowa, so long as she doesn’t speak out loud. (Folks just assume she’s from Chicago or something.)

One day, she wads riding the bus and two Mexican men got on and sat in the seat in front of her, and imagining that nobody could understand them, were spouting some racist nonsense.

She just sat there and listened to their conversation, and as she finally got up to get off, said goodbye to them very nicely in Spanish as she exited the bus.

She said that I should have seen the look on their faces.



Racism among Latinos is a real thing, and it shouldn’t really surprise anybody.

There’s a reason why my wife’s ancestors ran away from their masters and set up their own palenque culture centuries ago.