More anti-Mexican violence for LGM's core of racist commenters who think that the U.S. conquest of northern Mexico was a-ok. White soldiers looking for Mexicans to beat, Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, June 1943
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We continue our needed lessons on the history of American colonization of northern Mexico, desperately needed by a racist group of LGM commenters who seem to think that "people move.
Since a number of commenters at this site need some education about the horrors of American colonization of northern Mexico, it's time for this series to do some work on.
Since the upshot in the comments of today's John L. O'Sullivan grave post is that many liberals believe that a) the U.S. was justified stealing half of Mexico to expand slavery because Mexicans amirite? and b) that genocide against Native Americans really wasn't that big...
It's not cookies and milk that Santa wants tonight.
Joseph Kossuth Dixon staged photograph of Native Americans riding into the sunset, 1913 Larger version of this image at the Library of Congress website. No info though on which tribe.
Time to start a new LGM series: Images from American history. Just an image a day, a way to spark conversation about the past and present. The Head Start Program.