The Mango Missile Crisis
After her arrest, I started to understand. All the racist slights and foolish men my mother had endured. More reasons to be angry than I could count.
at him
one two three four
Good luck.
at me
fucking animals
Maybe that’s how jail works?
The 1993 Fort Mis-AdventureThe Missing Underwire Incident of ’94The Dented Bumper of ’95The Great Out-of-State College Conflict
The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race
model minority
Three
The 2015 Mango Missile Crisis
The 2015 Mango Missile Crisis
Calm down. Nobody needs to get shot today.
Annabelle Tometich (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, food writer and restaurant critic. For 15 years, she wrote restaurant reviews for the USA TODAY Network under the pen name "Jean Le Boeuf." She shed the Frenchman's pseudonym in February 2021 to be her mixed-race female self. She is at work on a memoir about her Filipina mother and biracial childhood in Robert E. Lee County, Florida, where she still lives with her husband and two children. Find more of her writing at annabelletm.com. Sign up for her newsletter and she'll love you forever: thehalffilip.substack.com
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