Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 11, numbers 112 through 120

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INTERVIEW: Ellis Page 22 Mexican kids. In fact, I think they're having more trouble now than they did in our days. BM: What kind of trouble? VE: Well, like if something gets stolen, they go immediately to one person, you know, of the Mexican race and they say, "Well, I know you done it," and these Mexicans don't know how to fight back. And this is why they call Daddy a lot, because Daddy is finally finding out their rights a little bit more, but I know of a couple of incidents. This white boy carne up to the Patio, it's a drive-in up there, and he threw rocks in the window, and he turned around and blamed it on this Mexican boy. And this Mexican boy got put in jail and had to have bail, and everything, on everything. And he had proof, this Mexican boy had proof that he didn't throw that rock. But they didn't believe the other boys that were with him, they believed this white kid because they were, like the mayor's son or . everybody's son, could have had a son in Monticello, you know, the representative, the council, the mayor or something, you know and so he just, he really didn't have a chance. But that doesn't hold just for the Mexican, but that holds for the low white people, most of the people they treat them the same way, just like they were like dirt.