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Hispanic Heritage Month: We Are the Seeds They Tried to Bury www.lwv.org/blog/hispanic-heritage-month-we-are-seeds-they-tried-bury In Mexico, there is a commonly-used proverb: “They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.” As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, I find myself reflecting on these words and what it means to be

Hispanic Heritage Month: We Are the Seeds They Tried to Bury | League of Women Voters

There is an effort underway to erase or diminish what it means to be Hispanic in this nation, replacing a rich and complicated history with a false narrative that treats our presence as recent, our contributions as peripheral, and our place in the United States as somehow conditional. We are not new...