"Alta Gracia remarked on Che's tendency to hang out with the poorer children rather than those more like him. As Ernestito's household became the gathering place for many of the neighborhood children, there were more of them at the dinner table than just those named Guevara. Among them were many from the poorer sections of town. Discrimination never seemed to be a family trait. When faced with more mouths, the family would simply divide what they had into smaller portions. It is impossible to imagine that these simple acts of sharing by his mother would not have affected Ernestito. He saw firsthand that it was not only fair and right to love your neighbor, it was natural. The image of a dinner table with room for all was never far from his mind in later years as he struggled to eradicate social inequalities."
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