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"Civil Rights in Black and Brown" is having a free virtual event at HU. If you've got the time please reserve tickets and attend.
"Civil Rights in Black and Brown" is having a free virtual event at HU. If you've got the time please reserve tickets and attend.
Just as a heads up, this is a book claiming that there was a "multiracial black and brown coalition for civil rights" in Texas. 
Most clips I've been sharing on this feed are from their own oral history project. They did these interviews but insist that Mexicans were segregated and treated similar to black people - even though their interviewees are honest that they were not.
#Latinxrevisionism
Some people ask, "How could everybody be lying?" Well, we've seen something like this before. Not long ago a lot of people deluded themselves into believing that the Irish had been slaves and claimed it was all forgotten or ignored.
nytimes.com/2017/03/17/us/…
Some people ask, "How could everybody be lying?" Well, we've seen something like this before. Not long ago a lot of people deluded themselves into believing that the Irish had been slaves and claimed it was all forgotten or ignored.
nytimes.com/2017/03/17/us/…
The myth of Mexican/Latino segregation is Texas history in identical to the Irish slavery myth but bigger.
This is not something that officially happened in Texas. Segregation had nothing to do with Mexicans, but they say that it was all happening "as a social custom". They show the same two signs over and over and say "these were signs everywhere!".
#LatinxRevisionism on KPBS.
Andrea Guerrero, an immigrant rights activist, went on TV and made up a bunch of stories, claiming that Latinos were subject to "white only" Jim Crow Laws, and attempts to write them into the civil rights narrative.
Andrea Guerrero, an immigrant rights activist, went on TV and made up a bunch of stories, claiming that Latinos were subject to "white only" Jim Crow Laws, and attempts to write them into the civil rights narrative.
Meanwhile this is what "Lah-tee-nos" were actually saying back then.
forgottenlatinohistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/we-are…
forgottenlatinohistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/we-are…
Why are they making up these stories?
forgottenlatinohistory.blogspot.com/2019/11/vote-a…
forgottenlatinohistory.blogspot.com/2019/11/vote-a…
#Latinxrevisionism
We are witnessing an attempt to fundamentally rewrite American history. It is currently being taught in schools that all "people of color" were subject to Jim Crow laws. They're trying to turn "colored" into "people of color".
We are witnessing an attempt to fundamentally rewrite American history. It is currently being taught in schools that all "people of color" were subject to Jim Crow laws. They're trying to turn "colored" into "people of color".
Again, who was "white" and who was "colored" for the purpose of Jim Crow Laws?
forgottenlatinohistory.blogspot.com/2018/10/all-th…
forgottenlatinohistory.blogspot.com/2018/10/all-th…
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This is part of a new wave of revisionism that started around 2010. The Texas Historical Commission even writes Tejanos/Mexicans into Jim Crow, making an absolute mockery of Texas History.
This is part of a new wave of revisionism that started around 2010. The Texas Historical Commission even writes Tejanos/Mexicans into Jim Crow, making an absolute mockery of Texas History.
#LatinxRevisionism
People of Spanish/Latin origin have NEVER historically been denied the right to vote. But people are actually claiming that "Latino" women couldn't vote until 1975.
People of Spanish/Latin origin have NEVER historically been denied the right to vote. But people are actually claiming that "Latino" women couldn't vote until 1975.
How do they make this ridiculous claim? The 1975 Voting Rights Act extended voting protections to "language minorities", which meant that literacy tests were prohibited, and it required non-English speaking ballots for foreign language speakers.
But, that doesn't mean that "Latinos" were ever barred from voting - it just facilitated the voting process for Spanish speakers. English speaking "Latinos" never had a problem voting.
