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Forgotten Latino History

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Sharing little-known Latino American history that you won't hear anywhere else

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To understand #LatinoHistory in the U.S, you have to forget about modern "Hispanic/Latino" identity. This seems like a contradiction, but it's not.

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#LatinoHistory The generation of Americans who remember the days when "colored" was a term for a black person is still living. In the '60s, Spanish-speakers were not colored nor "people of color". They were not minorities. Our modern race concepts did not historically exist.

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Outstanding New York Times Opinion essay by Soraya Nadia McDonald: "There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing. #JuanCrow." "In its pursuit of people w/o papers, the Trump administration is accelerating toward a modern nadir of Juan Crow." Gift Article/Read Free nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opi…

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#LatinxRevisionism The claim that Mendez v. Westminster has anything to do with Brown v. Board is a reinterpretation of history that was retroactively made in the 2000s - on shaky grounds. No one in the time period made this connection at all. forgottenlatinohistory.blogspot.com/2021/06/there-…

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#LatinoHistory We're still seeing "hispanic" identity politics play out today in the redistricting battle. If it were not for this social engineering beginning in the '70s, we wouldn't have a concept of a Spanish-speaking voting bloc. #ChatGPT calls it "pure identity politics"

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We're still seeing "hispanic" identity politics play out today in the redistricting battle. If it were not for this social engineering beginning in the '70s, we wouldn't have a concept of a Spanish-speaking voting bloc. 

#ChatGPT calls it "pure identity politics"