21Sep/060
I never thought of it that way.
One of the reasons I'm enjoying my diversity class: it's making me see things that would never have occured to me in my white, middle class world.
Latin women pray "in Spanish to an Anglo God/with a Jewish heritage," and they are "ferverntly hoping/that if not omnipotent,/at least He be bilingual." (Cofer, 2004, p. 364)
Cofer, Judith Ortiz (2004) The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria. In Paula S. Rothenberg (Ed), Race, Class, and Gender in the United States (6th ed.). New York:Worth Publishers.