This month we celebrate and practice ACCEPTANCE!
- Acceptance is the willingness to embrace feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own.
- Acceptance is the ability to experience or survive something unpleasant.
- Acceptance is the willingness to tolerate a difficult or unpleasant situation.
- We all have the human need and right to be accepted.
Here is a recording introducing and pronouncing Duncan Tonatiuh.
Sylvia Mendez (left), 73, talks to her sister Sandra Mendez Duran (right), 59, about Mendez v. Westminster, their family’s 1945 lawsuit that won Mexican-American children the right to attend white schools. Listen to them speak here, Story Corps – Mendez.
What surprised you about this story?
I was surprised that the mexicans could not go to school with whites because a slight difference in skin. I did not know they were so strict.
What surprised me about “seprate is never equal” is that how poorly the town was treating Sylvia and her family. I cant believe it took five whole days at court to get the judge to accept mexican people. I did not think it was fair to do that to Sylvia and her family.
I was surprised that the superintendent of one school said that the Mexicans needed to learn cleanliness of their minds, clothing, and manner.