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I'm enjoying the series. I especially liked the perspective of Rick Martinez (CNN Reporter) on the difficulty in raising his children bilingual when his wife speaks only English. Fascinating topic, and of broad interest, I would think.
I hope some people also caught the recent PBS three-part series on Latin music. It was fascinating. Remember Santana? Tito Puentes? Cuban Pete? Great stuff!!!!
I'm enjoying the series. I especially liked the perspective of Rick Martinez (CNN Reporter) on the difficulty in raising his children bilingual when his wife speaks only English. Fascinating topic, and of broad interest, I would think.
I hope some people also caught the recent PBS three-part series on Latin music. It was fascinating. Remember Santana? Tito Puentes? Cuban Pete? Great stuff!!!!
"Particularly in the West, Chinese immigrants, East Indians, Native Americans and Mexicans were also lynching victims. The lynching of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the Southwest was long overlooked in American history, attention being chiefly focused on the South. The Tuskegee Institute, which kept the most complete records, noted the victims as simply black or white. Mexican, Chinese, and Native American lynching victims were recorded as white...
Researchers estimate 597 Mexicans were lynched between 1848 and 1928. Mexicans were lynched at a rate of 27.4 per 100,000 of population between 1880 and 1930. This statistic was second only to that of the African American community, which endured an average of 37.1 per 100,000 of population during that period. Between 1848 and 1879, Mexicans were lynched at an unprecedented rate of 473 per 100,000 of population."
[The lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent in the United States, 1848 to 1928. A scholarly article by WD Carrigan in the Journal of Social History]
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Wow...as a black person this post kind of struck hard. Not really sure why but it did. I for one will be glad when this country have gotten past the "past" and race issues, but it hasn't.
And as a black person your race has been through the wringer the last couple of hundred years in this country alone. Thankfully, things are a lot different today but the oppression and abuse that black people have gone through is nothing less than disgusting.
Is anyone watching this? I empathize w/ a lot of the issues, esp. surrounding Education...
I watched parts of it and it was decent but I felt more attention could have been paid to the issues that Central American latinos (including Mexicans) have with America and the issues we have with them.
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And as a black person your race has been through the wringer the last couple of hundred years in this country alone. Thankfully, things are a lot different today but the oppression and abuse that black people have gone through is nothing less than disgusting.
