Cal State Fullerton Sorority Dinged for “Taco Tuesday” Event Involving Sombreros, Cholo-Wear

*There’s a name for this, it’s called Mexi mocking. Naming it doesn’t make it half a stitch better, nothing does, but it shows how the awareness of this kind of racism is rising. Kudos to the Cal State Fullerton Chicano students for speaking out. VL

By Gabriel San Roman, OC Weekly

Not since ‘Seniores and Señoritas’ day at Canyon High School in 2012 had there been Mexi mocking at a school sanctioned event in OC, but it happened again. Back in August, the sisters of Cal State Fullerton sorority Alpha Delta Pi (ADPi) held a Taco Tuesday recruitment party that went horribly wrong. As the Daily Titan reported earlier this week, the majority of Alphies dressed up as “Mexicans”: sarapes, sombreros, and chola clothes, all things they’d never dare do down the street in Tokers Town!

“You can have a Taco Tuesday without being racist,” says C@SA (Chicana Chicano Studies Alliance) Co-Chair Martha Contreras in the common-sense line of the century. “Just serve tacos.”

“My initial reaction was one of shock,” says Contreras. She’s also a senior at Cal State Fullerton double majoring in Sociology and Chicano Studies. “I hear about these kind of events happening on campuses nationwide, but I didn’t think making a culture a cartoon would happen here with the diversity of our students.”

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