I’m sitting in my history class, The instructor commences rapping, I’m in my U. S. history class, and I’m on the verge of napping. The Mayflower landed on Plymouth Rock. Tell me more! Tell me more! Thirteen colonies were settled. I’ve heard it all before. What did he say? Dare I ask him to reiterate? Oh why bother. It sounded like he said, George Washington’s my father. I’m reluctant to believe it, I suddenly raise my mano. If George Washington’s my father, Why wasn’t he Chicano? -Richard Olivas What does this quote mean?

The poem addresses how American history often distorts the country’s origins, how blacks, Native Americans, and Mexican-Americans were enslaved, exploited, and oppressed, and often ignores their very existence and contributions.

because each is self-sufficient.  

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