of Latinx students and teachers struggling to see themselves represented in their public school system. Beginning in the late 1990s, a collection of mostly Mexican-American teachers started working toward closing the achievement gap between the white and Latinx students in their district. Building on the historical examples of education used as a radical means of racial and ethnic uplift, the teachers decided to teach classes that featured writing by Mexican-American authors as well as classic texts from Mexican-American perspectives.TheHuffington Postquoted "I sit there and I just think in my head 'OK, what do I have to do right now to impress people?' and I realize that's the backwards thing and what I have to truly do is sit down and sing my song and truly connect with it," he continued. "In my own heart, be in love with what I’m doing and, in my own heart, get goosebumps from the fact that I'm enjoying what I'm doing so much. Because the only way people in the audience can truly feel is if I'm feeling it, too." song. Just because you like one song from an artist, that doesn't make you a fan. You're a fan of that song. So I'm not losing any fans if they don't like what I'm putting out because you wouldn't necessarily be my fan if you were a fan of the song,” he says. For Lil Nas X, country-rap isn’t off limits at all, and he thinks it’s highly possible for him to make another song with a similar sound, but he doesn’t want anyone assuming that he’ll stay in any kind of lane. “Nothing is off limits.” he's being treated as a black, Muslim, Somali-American immigrant, and is therefore being saddled with oppressive prejudices that come along with such an identity in the U.S.