I am Latina with Hispanic heritage, and this is the month given to us to celebrate nuestra raza

Escúchame bien! Listen and learn to the truth, this is not Fake News.

I look back at my ancestors with the Dia De Los Muertos and tell them our struggle continues

I tell them the Anti-Mexican Sentiment has returned from the past, but maybe it has never left us

I have learned of the Segregation in Schools, Lynching and, Murders only to hear horror stories with the march for the Frontera and border state murders

This land was our land, this land was my peoples land, from California to Texas, from the redwood forest to the Gulf Coast, Nuestra tierra no es tuyo.

The broken promise of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, now who is the thief and who is the landowner

My people have been called: Lazy, Dirty, Drunk, Stupid, and Dangerous, this is as racist as you can be

Angry calls for the Wall and Mass Deportations at rallies when aid is needed to be given for this human crisis.

We are called Illegal, hunted by ICE, and deported while criminal gangs like MS-13 do not represent us.

Even when you do have citizenship you are treated as a Second-Class Citizen by the shade of your skin

My uncle served in the Korean War and many other Mexican-Americans Served as brave veterans

All this just to have the ugly head of racism to reappear in the open even though so many hard working Mexican-Americans hold jobs, and pay their taxes.

We are the majority in the state of California, but need new leaders like Chaves and Huerta again

Do you see the human rights violations, it’s unlawful deprivation of individual rights inherent to us all?

Immigrant Detention Centers are constructed, and cages are built to hold the stolen children separated from their parents during the interrogation process.

You look to label us with your imaginary status rather than see us as fellow human beings: Green Card, Temporary Protective Status, Refuge, Naturalized Citizen, DACAA, Undocumented and illegal.

Enough is enough, Basta! The time has come to declare a Huelga De Humana! Yo declaro!

Levanta te and break the chains and cages that bind us.