FORT BLISS, Texas – In celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, William Beaumont Army Medical Center honored America’s Hispanic roots, while also asking participants to look past the limited definition of race and embrace the broader definition of ethnicity.
“The United States census started in 1790 when it became a federal law for the U.S. government to start counting people of all races and that’s not a bad thing, right? We want to know how diverse our country is. However, they started their categories as ‘free white’ and the other category was ‘slaves.’ Those were the categories,” Amabilia Payen told the WBAMC family gathered in the Clinic Assembly Room on Fort Bliss to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, September...
