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When I was born, on my birth certificate,
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there was only two options to describe what I was.
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I was either Afro-American or Caucasian.
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Now clearly, I wasn't Afro-American, so I was white by default.
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I had it made.
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I had a future of new words like"homeowner,"
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registered voter,"
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and then they changed it.
They added a third box, so now,
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it was "Other," and there went my house.
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And I was "Other" for a longtime,
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and then they changed it to Hispanic
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when I came out of the first grade,
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and I was cool with that.
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But then my buddy Albert was like,
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"Dude, we're not Hispanic, bro, we're Chicano."
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But that ended with Albert and me being called "Defendants".
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By the time they dropped the charges,
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we were Mexican-American.
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The point is, is that all these different people got together,
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the Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans,
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Mexicans, Salvadorians,
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and the majority of the Spanish-speaking countries,
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and they finally agreed on one word,
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and that word was Latino.
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