As a news and political junkie, some stories stick with me more than others.
Particularly, I remember a story from way back in 2006 during the student protests at Montebello High School in California, which were held in response to proposed federal immigration legislation under the George W. Bush administration.
During the school walkout, students raised a Mexican flag above an upside-down American flag on the school’s flagpole — an image that quickly sparked national outrage.
All these years later, the image is still burned into my memory.
I was a teenager at the time. Young, but becoming politically aware, although most of my opinions were regurgitated from what my dad told me.
I was angry at the image and thought it was a racist act — though at the time, I naively called it “reverse racism,” not yet understanding that racism is racism, no…
