Why do you think this narrative of Governmentally approved atrocities and land theft towards Latin Americans is not taught in our current history classes?
What other perspectives and issues surface when examining this history from the Western view of the Mexican Americans of California, New Mexico, Texas, and the entire Southwest?
Why does the narrative of lynching only seem to focus on the African/Black American experience when many American Mexicans, Mexican Americans, Mexicans, and other Latin groups also suffered from lynching?
Why do we only focus on the African American/Black population when discussing reparations?
Should reparations be part of that discussion with the American Mexicans, Mexican Americans, Mexicans, and other Latin groups?
A Chicana/Chicano (American Mexican or Mexican American) says: “We didn’t cross the border. The border crossed us.”
What does this mean, and how does it relate?
Does this account for First People/Indigenous/Native Americans?
Explain the concept of a nation with two shores concerning the Puerto Rican experience.
Define the difference between immigration, repatriation, deportation, resettlement, and internment.
What types of people were targeted?
What do Leslie Hiatt, a fifth-grade Bell Gardens Elementary School class, and AB 146 have to do with taking action and creating change in immigration, repatriation, deportation, resettlement, and internment?
Why was the narrative of immigration, repatriation, deportation, resettlement, and internment ignored for the American Mexicans or Mexican Americans in our history?
These narratives are essential components of the American story. So why are they not there?
Why do you think stories like Guy Louis Gabaldon and Raul Perez “Roy” Benavidez are not taught about American war heroes in our schools?
Why has there been no acknowledgment, public apology, or accountability for the Zoot Resistance, brutality brought upon the Americans Mexican or Mexican American community (Pachucas/Pachucos), and the gang-raping of the Mexican American woman during this time?
Why is the crucial civil rights narrative led by Dr. García, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, Reies Lopez Tijerina, and Dr. Ernesto Galarza not seen or taught within the civil rights narrative?
