The former San Antonio poet laureate said the poem Nephtali De Leon had posted on his Facebook page caused “a visceral and a gut reaction, and for some people, that may have been triggering.”
, a respected Chicano writer, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson thought, “Oh, no, this isn’t going to be good.”said she saw that De Leon had used two racial slurs, one about whites and the other about African-Americans.caused “a visceral and a gut reaction, and for some people, that may have been triggering.”
“We have to be above reproach with our words. They have power in every context. Our words have power,” she said.
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