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.
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