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Originally Posted by green_mariner
I never learned about this in school. I knew about some of the tensions between Blacks and Mexicans, but I never learned about this in school.
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Well, I started a blog to educate people about this little known history. It's history that the "Latino" political group doesn't want you to know about.
An increasing number of people these days are trying to write Mexicans into civil rights history and claim that their contributions are being ignored. Nothing could be further from the truth.
They were on the other side of the fence:
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[American G.I] Forum leader Manuel Avila feared that any mention of sympathy toward blacks might hurt the Mexican American cause.
"Sooner of later we're going to have to say which side of the fence we're on. Are we white or not [and] if we are white why do we ally with the Negro?"
Avila wrote. "Let's face it, first we have to establish we are white then be on the white side and then we'll become Americans - otherwise never."
Avila had rather simple logic; as whites, Anglos were Mexicans' natural ally, not blacks. He also contended that Mexican Americans in California and Arizona had progressed because they "will never make an issue of defending the Negro."
"To go to bat for the Negro as a Mexican-American," Avila emphasized, "is suicide".
https://forgottenlatinohistory.blogs...-of-fence.html
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...and to think that today black people are going to bat for them and fighting for the rights of illegal immigrants who scam their way into the united states.