good’ol ABC song<\/a> to today’s dark realities. In a time when it’s hard for anyone to live in ignorant bliss of the amount of conflict and death that humanity has brought upon itself, a recontextualization of one of the first songs that we learn as children in the United States is all too appropriate. Afterall, the learning of language should be linked to a global consciousness embedded in historical realities.<\/p>\nLea\u00c3\u00b1os employs Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebration along with sardonic humor to reconsider recent and historical deaths, so many unnecessary deaths:<\/p>\n
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