08/05/2019
We are yet again horrified by the acts committed this weekend in the United States as a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 20 people and over 47 injured and in less than a day after a shooting spree in Dayton, Ohio, leaving 10 dead - 16 injured. The gunman wrote a 2,300-word “manifesto” prior to the El Paso terrorist attack citing a “Hispanic invasion of Texas” and suggests the need of “getting rid” of immigrants in order to make “our” way of life more sustainable.
Let us not forget this directed hatred comes from the spread of white nationalistic- supremacy means. There is this constant fear of our mothers, sisters, brothers, our own selves, walking down the street, going to the supermarket, to the mall without being killed simply because we are Latinx. That we have to fear speaking our own language and expressing our culture in any way. This is a major issue on many fronts. Having the President of the U.S insisting that we need a stronger immigration reform to address the killing of Hispanic-Americans is disgusting. I hope all marginalized communities can stand together during these times that our adversaries attempt to demean our culture, religion, heritage even if it is coming directly from our “representatives in office.”
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