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• Guns that look like toys have got to go

  
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  BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA, Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO -- Two summers ago, my husband and I took our sons to a shooting range for multiple days of firearms training with a certified instructor. Our logic was simple: In our low-income community with lots of gang activity, it was laughable to imagine that our boys ...
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• We are living in an Accommodation Nation where everyone is "special"

  
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  BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA, Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO -- Our society is on the path to random chaos because our willingness to make exceptions for people has morphed into never-ending feelings of grievance and expectations of entitlement. Let me illustrate: While earning my master’s in special education, I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unaccompanied alien minors are young, alone and in court

  
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  BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA, Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO -- Last week, a federal judge in California ordered immigration courts in three states to provide legal representation for immigrants with mental disabilities who are in detention or facing deportation. This happened the day after federal immigration ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to deal with stereotypes? Shrug off words that hurt

  
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  BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA, Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO -- What do you do when you get trapped in a stereotype that doesn’t apply -- or just plain hurts? This is not a trivial question. As Hispanics start populating academia, newsrooms, boardrooms and courtrooms across the country, they face the tricky terrain ...
  3 weeks ago

• The wise words of bombing suspects Uncle Ruslan

  
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  BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA, Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO -- After a gut-wrenching week of terror, my award for bravery in the face of adversity goes to Ruslan Tsarni. The uncle of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who are suspected of having carried out the Boston Marathon bombings, stepped into the spotlight and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Finding middle ground between school safety and criminalizing students

  
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  BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA, Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO -- Safety in public schools has been much on the public’s mind in the post-Newtown era. The massacre has inspired calls for getting more police officers into school buildings. At the same time, civil rights organizations are calling for the exact opposite: ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mexico Barbies chihhuahua and Hispanics bad rap

  
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  BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA, Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO -- I love Mexico Barbie’s Chihuahua. There, I’ve said it. Let the Latino community slam me for lacking cultural sensitivity if it will, but I’m sticking to my  pistolas  on this one. The furor over Mexico Barbie came to a head last week when a $30 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ken Burns "Central Park 5": A nightmare of criminal injustice

  
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  BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA, Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO -- History is littered with examples of innocents who were punished for crimes they didn’t commit. You don’t have to think very hard to remember someone who made headlines for an atrocious act only to find out years later the person didn’t do it. When ...
  5 weeks ago

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