What about the San Jacinto Memorial?
Posted on 10/14/2018 7:16:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A makeshift memorial to Hispanic Civil War Union soldiers in an isolated part northern New Mexico is a typical representation of sites linked to U.S. Latino history: It’s shabby, largely unknown and at risk of disappearing.
Across the U.S, many sites historically connected to key moments in Latino civil rights lie forgotten, decaying or endanger of quietly dissolving into the past without acknowledgment. Scholars and advocates say a lack of preservation, resistance to recognition and even natural disasters make it hard for sites to gain traction among the general public, which affects how Americans see Latinos in U.S. history.
The birthplace of farmworker union leader Cesar Chavez sits abandoned in Yuma, Arizona. The Corpus Christi, Texas, office of Dr. Hector P. Garcia, where the Mexican-American civil rights movement was sparked, is gone. And no markers exist where pioneering educator George I. Sanchez captured images of New Mexico poverty for his 1940 groundbreaking book “Forgotten People.”
“People need to see history, they need to touch it, they need to feel it, they need to experience it,” said Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, a journalism professor at the University of Texas who has worked to preserve Latino historical sites. “When something is preserved, it’s a daily reminder of our history.” […]
In 2012, the National Park Foundation’s American Latino Heritage Fund launched a campaign to improve the representation of Hispanics in national parks. The National Park Service also convened an “American Latino Scholars Expert Panel” made of members like Rivas-Rodriguez and Yale history professor Stephen J. Pitti. …
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Yup. The authors of the 14th were crystal clear. Children born to foreign nationals whether here legally or illegally are not U.S. citizens.
The courts don’t have the power of naturalization. So how are they handing out birth certificates to anchor babies?
‘Someone needs to hang from a lamppost, ben’
Theres enough trash along our border to build landmarks to the illegal aliens in every city...
Hell, Texas has Beto O’Rourke. That should be all the Mexican landmarks we need. Wouldn’t want none of that “cultural appropriation” going on. Might piss the illegals off.
You are correct!
It was WWI.
While Mexico was close to Germany during WWI, and Germany wanted Mexico to attack and attempt to take the Southwestern US, rhe government of Mexico decided not to carry out the German plan.
Guantanamo.
Maybe they didn’t want to get annexed by the US.
Yet I have before me an elaborate color printed, bilingual State of Florida guidebook to the Florida Cuban Heritage Trail of nearly 100 sites. Of genuine interest to history geeks like me, it was compiled and published due to an appropriation by Florida’s 1994 Republican legislature.
What about the San Jacinto Memorial?
St. Augustine Florida is a living reminder of Spanish-America.
We are working on that big, beautiful wall. That will be one heck of a monument.
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