Thank for that!  I made 24,000 last year, working 52 hours a week (on average).  I have no sick days, no vacation days, and no pension.  I live in a small tourist area and would love to move but have a husband with a broken spine and two kids.  Reading the money journals leaves me empty and broken.  

When White people sport the flag as an accessory, fly it with ends frayed on their pick up or use it as a towel to wipe their asses it’s patriotic. Flying the Mexican flag is treason!!! We had battles and stuff and they were an enemy and we NEVER forget the enemies of wars that cost Americans lives. Oh, unless it’s…

I’m Mexican and what I have never really understood is why some of my family seems to think we’re better than Cubans or Puerto Ricans or some other Central/Southern American people. Like, I get called a wetback and illegal by whites people just like the Cuban chick I work with me. White people aren’t upset about our…

I’m an X-er too and I wanted sugared cereal soooo badly! We were only allowed cereal with sugar as the third or after ingredient. I know we had Grape nuts, maybe rice crispiest or Cheerios as a treat maybe twice a year. I lusted over Lucky Charms with a passion so virulent and intense, I was given a box by friend’s…

As a Mexican Jew, this fills me with such unspeakable horror.

I’m a brown woman and today we went to a local water park. My 12 year old needed help because she was wet and her sports bra was all sorts of twisted. I just read this story and thought, “who helps the girls in the camps? Who kisses them goodnight? Who smiles with joy when they do awesome kid stuff? Who holds…