This morning on my bus ride to school, I read this article: http://www.history.com/news/the-brutal-history-of-anti-latino-discrimination-in-america. It was about how Latinos have been treated in the U.S for so long. It showed me things that I didn't even know about my country. It showed me things that shocked me, and disgusted me. It's sad to see that racists have been and still are prevalent in the United States for decades. We should have been past this a long time ago.
Fellow Mexicans were lynched, attacked, beaten throughout the 1850s up to the 1920s. Even children! And it's always been about the same usual racist garbage: Mexicans stealing white people's jobs. This has been happening for so long! And then the United States forcibly removed thousands of Mexicans from here - even citizens - because anti-Mexican sentiment was so strong.
Reading this article brought a wave of sadness over me, but the only comfort I have is that at least racist Americans can't do any of that horrible stuff anymore to Latinos.
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Mexico City Earthquake
On Tuesday morning, a 7.1 earthquake hit Mexico City on the anniversary of the 1985 earthquake that killed 10, 000 people. When I first heard the news, I felt instant panic. I felt so worried because my father and my family live in Mexico City and I was scared that something had happened to them. Luckily, they were okay. But at the time I found out, an estimated 40 people were dead. Now the death toll has risen up to 217 deaths, some of them children. What happened was devastating but the people of Mexico are holding strong, and survivors are helping others to repair what has been destroyed.
On Twitter, there are videos of the destruction and buildings being decimated in one second. Each video has been heartbreaking to watch because the people of Mexico has already gone through enough with the last earthquake that hit. What warms my heart is that the people of Mexico has received an outpouring of support from people all over the world. Here's a handful of celebrities that have tweeted about the earthquake: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7972833/beyonce-shawn-mendes-more-stars-tweet-support-for-earthquake-victims-in-mexico
The media has been very supportive but I fear that it won't last long especially with Trump as President fueling hatred towards my people. I've seen some unsavory tweets from Trump supporters cheering that this has happened, as if this were some form of divine punishment. It's sickening and I hope that's the last I've seen of that, though highly unlikely. But my people will remain strong and brave in the face of destruction.
On Twitter, there are videos of the destruction and buildings being decimated in one second. Each video has been heartbreaking to watch because the people of Mexico has already gone through enough with the last earthquake that hit. What warms my heart is that the people of Mexico has received an outpouring of support from people all over the world. Here's a handful of celebrities that have tweeted about the earthquake: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7972833/beyonce-shawn-mendes-more-stars-tweet-support-for-earthquake-victims-in-mexico
The media has been very supportive but I fear that it won't last long especially with Trump as President fueling hatred towards my people. I've seen some unsavory tweets from Trump supporters cheering that this has happened, as if this were some form of divine punishment. It's sickening and I hope that's the last I've seen of that, though highly unlikely. But my people will remain strong and brave in the face of destruction.
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Injustice at UC Berkeley
The other day I stumbled upon this article http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hot-dog-vendor-video-seizure-20170911-story.html and to summarize, this man took a video of a UC Berkeley officer taking a Latino hot dog vendor's hard earned cash while giving him a ticket. When I saw the video, it filled me with such fury. Why is this person targeting only the Latino trying to earn a living, and not the white people drinking alcohol nearby in a public, college setting? It distressed me because, okay sure, you can give him a ticket but to take his money from his wallet as well? That's like kicking someone when they're already down. And it broke my heart to see a fellow Latino being treated that way. In the video, you can see he's devastated when the cop took his money.
Luckily, the man who took the video put up a GoFundMe page for the hot dog vendor and so far, it's raised over 30, 000 dollars. The man who took the video was outraged at what was going on before him and he's Latino too so he had to help out la raza in any way he could. I really hope UC Berkeley looks into this and apologizes to the hot dog vendor. No one should be treated in such a way, be humiliated like that.
Luckily, the man who took the video put up a GoFundMe page for the hot dog vendor and so far, it's raised over 30, 000 dollars. The man who took the video was outraged at what was going on before him and he's Latino too so he had to help out la raza in any way he could. I really hope UC Berkeley looks into this and apologizes to the hot dog vendor. No one should be treated in such a way, be humiliated like that.
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