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Nov 5 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
#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.
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.

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Nov 3
#AffirmativeAction
Remember: The "hispanic" minority group was politically fabricated for the purpose of AA. The label artificially made "people of Spanish origin" into official minorities so that they could masquerade as POC and get preferences that were never intended for them. Image
This is what Mexican political groups wanted when they fought for this new designation. The thought of a "hispanic" minority group would not exist today if it were not for the 1964 civil rights act and Affirmative Action.
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All arguments in favor of AA fall short when it comes to the mystical "hispanic" minority group. Why should "Latinos" qualify for Affirmative Action in higher education if Latin American people were NEVER historically excluded from higher education in American history?
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Oct 21
How did segregation on buses work? Colored people normally had to sit in the back, but if the bus was full, whites got the seats in the back and colored people had to stand. This Mexican woman was a white lady that "never had any problems".
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A common complaint "Lah-tee-nos" make is that the white-black story of segregation and civil rights ignores them. No, it does not! The way to be inclusive is to explain to Latino children that they are part of the white-black story.
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Sep 26
The series "A League of their own" is stirring up discussion of "Latinos" and race in the Jim Crow era. The AAGPBL was racially segregated - but had Latin American players. Some are starting to explain that by claiming that they were "white-passing".
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The use of the term "white-passing" to describe white people from Latin countries is problematic. It pretends that they were POC who pretended to be white. In the 40s, Latin Americans were normally considered white. They didn't have to "pass" for anything.
The history of "passing for white" in the U.S is Black-American history and actually has nothing to do with "Latinos". Claiming that "Latin" people were passing for white serves to mask the inherent white privileges that they had at the time.
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Jul 30
After the 2014 book "Making Hispanics", more people are finally starting to acknowledge that this happened. But it's too often reduced to a story about choosing a term. "Hispanic" wasn't a semantic change, it was inventing a NEW minority group in the 80s.
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Political groups just arbitrarily decided one day that Mexicans and everybody who speaks Spanish were a separate minority group apart from whites and blacks. It was considered a ridiculous concept when it was introduced and took 20 years to normalize.
It wasn't a different choice of words like the difference between "black/colored/negro/African-American". It never crossed anybody's mind that Spanish speakers were a separate minority group before the invention of the "hispanic".
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Jul 18
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When desegregation happened, white students were bussed to black schools and vice versa. Here's a story about Anglo-American white kids who were being bussed to Pinkston high-school in Dallas.
When Mexican kids started to be bussed to black schools as white - they broke out in protest, boycotted integration, and put their kids in homeschools (so -called "freedom schools").
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The Huelga School story alleged that only Mexicans were being bussed to black schools, and not Anglos. They claim Mexicans were being specifically targeted for integration with blacks. That was never true. Anglos were bussed to black schools as well.
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Jun 13
To understand American history, you have to understand that concepts of race/ethnicity are fundamentally different. So much so, that today is a twilight zone compared to the 50s/60s. We think of minorities today as "blacks and latinos", but that idea did not historically exist.
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In the 40s a Mexican girl, Karla Galarza, wanted to take a dress making class at a black school in Washington DC. The black faculty later asked her to leave and transfer to another school because she was white.
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