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THREAD: Important to understand the undercurrent of the history bubbling beneath the #ElPasoTerroristAttack. You can see the workings of the genocidal culture--institutionally-sanctioned mass murder+white supremacy+devalued Mexican life--3 hours s of EP, in the town of Porvenir,
TX. Porvenir was the site of a massacre perpetrated by Texas Rangers at a time where 100s, possibly 1000s of Mexicans were being ethnically cleansed , displaced fr land in the region. A century after it occurred, I tried to interview a defendant of one bit.ly/2GLl8X0
of the victims. They were not ready to do so. What's known as "La Matanza" also included lynchings, shootings & other murderous violence in which whites mass murdered Mexicans w impunity. The fact that most in Texas, including Tejanos, don't know about La Matanza is a measure of
how accepted, normalized and embedded both the white privilege and the devaluation of Mexican life is. So when u see ppl like the white shooter in El Paso spewing nonsensical garbage about an Mexican "invasion" of long- held Mexican land, know that it echoes a genocidal mix
that works below levels of awareness as a "tradition, " a "right," a sense of ownership that are fictitious, but genocidally dangerous. In a word, silence really is death. We must speak and act. bit.ly/1tddf2Z
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