The Other Side of the Tracks

By Tony Cano

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963921053
• ISBN13: 9780963921055
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Reata Publishing Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Salt & Pepper (Bent But Not Broken)

Salt and pepper; a common spice used to spice food. However, in abstract practice, salt and pepper may suggest human color, white and black or brown. Salt and pepper, as an ingredient, is much needed to spice food. Similarly, prejudice, narrow-mindedness, and bigotry are ingredients widely used to spice hatred, discrimination and injustice against race, religious beliefs, ethnicity and even sexual preference. Author Tony Cano tells a horrible, hideous and vile story to say the least, of discrimination and bigotry in the town he was born in and raised. A Mexican American, he and the rest of the Mexican kids his age as well as their parents was discriminated against. They were discriminated against in such a vile way that makes one think if such atrocious, brutal, and vicious behavior against a race is possible. Much to the consternation, and dismay of the reader of "The Other Side Of The Tracks," it is! "...Behold men, as it were, in an underground cave-like dwelling, having its entrance towards the light, which extends through the whole cave. Within it, persons, who from childhood on, have had chains on their legs and their necks; so they can look forward only, but not turn their heads around because of the chains, their light coming from a fire that burns above, far off and behind them." Plato: THE REPUBLIC, BOOK VII, 2 (Italics mine.) And, so it was with the Mexican American kids in Marfa, Texas. A small farming town which made sure Mexican Americans were kept from being human beings, and where cattle was treated much better than any Mexican American human being. Marfa, Texas, a small town who made certain that Mexican American kids stayed in the jailhouse instead of a hotel or motel when they competed in sports in other small towns as Alpine, and Abeline, Texas. Those towns too, were filled with hatred and discrimination. They proudly displayed signs in their business establishments, which said, "No Dogs or Mexicans Allowed." Marfa, Texas a small town so dead-set in discrimination and bigotry the Mexican American population had to live on "The Other Side Of The Tracks." Read Tony Cano's story and get your heart and soul turned inside out!