Quinceanera - celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday in parts of Latin America and elsewhere in communities of Latin Americans. The birthday is celebrated differently from any others in that it marks the girls transition from childhood to womanhood.
Source *Wikipedia*
As most of us know Donald Trump made some incendiary remarks about Mexicans a few weeks ago. Now, it's not that I am mad about it. After all, I live in America and people are entitled to their opinions (whether I want to hear them or not). Any way, if I was Donald Trump, I would definitely steer clear of the south side of North Las Vegas:
Yesterday I was walking down Owens when I came across a quinceanera at the corner of Owens & McDaniel's. They're fairly routine happenings in the neighborhood. Who knows - one of these days I may get invited to one. Any way, as I am walking by I notice a large group of people gathered around a young lady who was blindfolded. She has a wooden baseball bat in her hands and is swinging it violently at a Donald Trump piñata tethered to a long piece of rope being pulled up and down by a man standing on the roof. It is a comical site.
"Almost," a voice yells from the crowd as she takes another erratic swing - the Donald pinata bobs up and down a few more times and the girl swings and misses again and again. And then the crowd yells in unison - "Now!" This time the girl's violent swing connects squarely thus causing it to rip three quarters apart. The crowd goes into a wild cheer as she slips her blindfold off.
The girl is now standing next to the piñata as it hangs by a thread. The crowd is still cheering - she turns to them and gives a precocious look - and then, at the top of her lungs, yells - "Viva La Mexico!" And with one last violent swing strikes the pinata thus causing the untethered part to travel fifteen to twenty feet in the air. I found something strange about the whole incident. There was nothing in it. I thought piñatas were suppose to have candy in them.
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