Caucasians see us as they do because we are not them. We are a different people, but we are not inferior. Yet we should know as a people that not all Caucasians view us in the manner that the store owner did my Padre. He was simply a man who could hide his racism by hiring Hispanics, but when the time came his racism peeked out for everyone to see. Yet as quickly as it roared its ugly face he had the ability to say he was sorry and to make it ok within himself and those around him.
Racism is an ugly word, but it's an even uglier action.
Whenever I see the owner of that store I still think of what he put my Padre through that day because of his ignorance. Hispanics aren't at the wrong place at the wrong time. We can be wherever we'd like to be. It's only ignorance that makes us feel that sometimes we are.