“You ain’t a real Mexican” or …

Why Being Born a Half-Polish-Half-Mexican in 1960’s Detroit is some serious shit, man!

Ruben Mauricio
Equality Includes You
3 min readFeb 25, 2021

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Being raised in a mainly Mexican neighborhood with a dark brown Dad and a very white Mom makes for some good neighborhood gossip or at least contributes to some widespread cultural confusion among the locals. Everyone wants to be the one who figures you out, right…

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Ruben Mauricio
Equality Includes You

My dreams persist, therfore I ponder: writing my first opera, !Respiro!, finding lost relatives in Warsaw,opening my Mexican-Polish bakery in Detroit.