Social Justice is a subject in my life that is a little touchy, as a Mexican American growing up in a predominantly white town where I have had to let some looks and comments just roll of my back, I have found it difficult to figure out how to stand up for both or neither sometimes. In a deep conversation with a close friend once on the subject, he asked me what it's been like growing up and how I've felt that I have fit in. I explained to him that my heritage was strong but a large percentage of my family was born and Mexico and migrated, so I felt to American in a sense, because I was never fully emersed in the culture when I as very young and because I didn't go to school in Mexico. I grew up in a traditionally Mexican home with traditional mexican values, but when I stepped outside, I was in America. So my friends were American,  American values were also instilled in me because I would go to their houses to play and went to school in America. where you learn about America not Mexico. We went on and on about situations that were uncomfortable and in the end. He said "So you feel that you're to Mexican to be accepted by Americans and to American to be accepted by Mexicans". He nailed it. I've been called "white washed" by Mexicans and "wet-back" by Americans (claimed by neither or rejected by both). It's a though way to see it. Either way for this reason, I feel like a hypocrite taking either side on most issues and so I avoid it almost all together. I don't ignore it, I help in quite ways that I will not write about, and I leave it at that. It does hurt my heart that I feel this way and that I don't do more. But that's just where I am with it.