Happy Cinco de Mayo…
“Mexican” is not a noun or an adjective
“Mexican” is a life long low-paying job
a check mark on a welfare police form
more than a word a nail in the soul but
it hurts
it points
it dreams
it offends
it cries
it moves
it strikes
it burns
just like
a verb
365 Days of Poetry, Prose and Quotations 
The same could be said about any ethnic group. White, black, Mexican, Russian, autistic are not verbs.
Not every race goes through this tragedy. This is their tragedy from their experience. White people don’t go through much trouble. So technically you are wrong and what you just said is very disrespectful.
Sowing Mercy, I think you are missing the point the author is trying to make. This poem was created by a man who grew up in Mexico and is a social comment.