#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!". 
They use terms loosely. The Irish slavery believers invented Irish Slavery by claiming that Indentured servitude was "slavery". In a similar manner, they invent Mexican segregation by claiming that ESL education that was part of the white school system was "racial segregation".
Or there was different dances for Mexicans at the white schools. That was "segregation".
They pretend that a Mexican neighborhood was a "segregated neighborhood", even though they were never legally forced into those neighborhoods. These were just ethnic communities who chose to live around each other - just like there were Polish communities in TX.
Meanwhile, Texans who grew up during segregation are still living. And they didn't know that Mexicans were segregated. Anglos remember always going to school with Mexicans in the 50s.
The myth of Mexican segregation is an attempt to fundamentally rewrite Texas history.
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