Rodrigue's parents spoke Ladino to each other but it has not been passed on to his children, or to most of the newgenerationof Sephardic Jews around the world.
The truth is that there's a whole newgenerationof African-Americans who were not alive or who were very young children during the civil rights movement.
Both of my parents came to New York from Puerto Rico, the childrenof widowed mothers who wanted to give the next generation a better chance to succeed.