'it will be another tragic setback in our nation’s ongoing struggle to achieve social justice'
The woman grabbed my arm as I walked by and asked me, “Hey, kid, how would you like to go to college?”
The determined look on her face made me suspicious. Could it be a scam? Why would anybody want to help me get a college education? Josefa Sánchez, the resolute woman who stood on the sidewalk that day, was the director of the Centro Joaquín Murrieta, a non-profit organization promoting affirmative action in college admissions. During her tenure, she developed a personal support system that guided working-class Mexican Americans through the labyrinth of red tape involved in the college admissions process.
Our success did not come easy. Affirmative action opened the door, but it took a mighty effort on our part to step up into the middle class. To make ends meet, I worked eight-hour shifts three days a week, which forced me to take all my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9 in the morning to 10 at night. I remember my wife pasting her nursing class notes on our kitchen cabinet so she could review them as we prepared dinner.
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