ANONYMOUS: Who Am I?

This open ended letter, written by an unknown author is meant to inform the reader of the native people, the Mestizos. It is to inform the reader of the lifetime struggles of this group of people. They addresses the reader as the attacker, and themselves; the victim. They are speaking as the whole group and the readers are those who have caused them so much pain and suffering; those who do not act, those who's ancestors took their land and those who still treat them with disdain. "You took away our lands...you are ashamed of what we are, and your attitude makes us feel that we, too, should be ashamed of what we are." The writer is informing the world of this unknown people that we are all treating poorly, our ancestors have treated poorly and persuade them to take action, to pull them out of the terrible life that we have allowed them to fall into.

• Levin, Gerald. "Who Am I?". Prose Models 11th ed. Harcourt College Publishers, 1975. 
• Anonymous, "Who Am I?" from Educating the Mexican American by Henry Sioux Johnson and William J. Hernandez. Valley Forge; Judson Press, 1970. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.