Teaching social ethics from a standpoint of practical application often inspires my students to take action. Not surprisingly, they will sometimes ask me to join them in the struggle for justice.
“Dr. D, we are headed downtown to get arrested,” they often say. “Will you join us in our protest against [insert cause here]?”
My response is always the same: “I’m a Latino; I don’t have to go get arrested; it comes naturally for our people. Occupying a Latine body (or a Black body, an Indigenous body) is sufficient grounds for getting arrested.”
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