The Pool and the Police

Racism and sunscreen, an American summer

Photo by Jorge, of course.

Things I have seen at our public city pool this week:

Two women with the faces of teenagers, in full, traditional indigenous dress, similar to what I saw Guatemalan quiché-speaking immigrants wear when I worked as an interpreter. They had toddlers, and their husbands were in the water with the toddlers, and they looked on, gigg…