“If we think of the way the European Holocaust has been documented or the way we have commemorated the various military losses of the U.S. armed forces personnel and compare them to the way in which the United States remembers the history of conquest in the Americas, we can see profound differences. [Latin@s], for instance, are unlikely to ever have a museum documenting the atrocities committed by Texas Rangers against Mexican people. We will not have a black marble wall in Washington D.C. etched with the names of those Mexicans who died in the violent takeover of northern Mexico, or the identities of the Native women who were roped like cattle then raped by Spanish soldiers.” — Eden E. Torres, Chicana Without Apology
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:01:00 +0000
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