A Boricua Thanksgiving Story
By Angelo Falcón (November 21, 2012)
Thanksgiving is a time to express and contemplate gratitude.
With this in mind, I wanted to share a story from my youth for which I was very grateful.
Every year while I was in high school, Brooklyn Tech '69, all the students would pay homage to me the day before the Thanksgiving break as we left the school. As I raced down the stairs with the other 5,000 srudents out of the mammoth building, they would acknowledge my last name by circling me and yelling, "Kill the bird!" over and over again, using deeply menacing stabbing motions with their hands, as I left for the holiday trembling and in sheer horror.
Upon graduating, I was grateful that they were no longer pulling that shit on me!
Anyway, I thought I would share this heartwarming story with you on this special holiday.
On behalf of all of us at NiLP, I wish you and yours a terrific Thanksgiving!
Angelo Falcón
President
National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP)