Once I asked her why she needed to scrub so hard it hurt. 'Because we are not dirty people,' she had said. Later, when I asked Mama about it, she told me when Grandma Estrella was a little girl, her own teachers called her a dirty Mexican and it never left her, the shame of dirt.
-Kali Fajardo-Anstine
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