A Changing America

This commentator tells what his town was like when his family first moved there and how it has changed, with more immigrant families moving there. - - Donna Poisl

by Pius Kamau

AURORA, CO (KUNC) - Even after 30 years of living in Colorado, KUNC commentator Pius Kamua feels that he's still regarded as a foreigner. But that's had him thinking how the natives have had to change - and if it's been for better or for worse.

When we moved to Denver, the city of Aurora was a shadow of what it is today. Where today's streets and avenues crisscross the land, fallow fields lay dormant, sleepy, wide open spaces. There were few black faces, and fewer Hispanics. We were a curiosity to the white natives, most of whom had not traveled far from their neighborhoods.
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