Pedro Flores Jr.

On this day, which should be celebrated as a season, the death of our rituals are

becoming more prominent. Amongst so many powers that control our ways of life,

social media and those who have the power to impose laws have been slowly

deteriorating our ancestral ways of life. The culture that has been created to erase

our history is within our societal style of life. Without knowing, we are

contributing to the murder of our indigenous roots and have blamed historic

amnesia that we have cultivated by acculturating to society’s standard of life. By

the time we realize this cruel massacre it will be too late and our roots will be

pulled out of the soil where we resided for many years before the conquest. On this

day, I call to your attention the commercialization and manipulation of our

indigenous roots and the vast growth of the death of a important part of who we are

because who we are now, will not be who we were before. Some call that growth,

others call it Malinche.

Here, I depict the contributions to the murder of our ancestors which will erase all

history of where we are and have been in the past. The control of those with power

and the media are coating our ritual with a glazed image of how we should be

celebrating today. Look into the mirror that will reveal the truth about how I feel.

Look into the mirror that will show you the truth about our celebration. Look into

the mirror that will be creating a conscious that will forever follow you like all the

other burden that this country has added to the invisible sack that we carry on our

backs.

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