Tuesday, March 6, 2012

THE LIES AND RACIST MURDERS.


In 1848 when the Mexican American war ended  Mexico was forced to sign the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and surrender half of there land in exchange of 15 million dollars. In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the united states guaranteed that Mexican citizens living in ceded lands would retain property rights and would be given United States citizenship if they remained in ceded lands for at least one year. However the united states ignored these rights and forced Mexican-Americans to leave there lands in which in many cases were past down through generations.
          After all these events racism caused lynching in a certain case a woman named Josefina Segovia was lynched by a mob, because she was accused of killing a white man after he attempted to assault her after breaking in her home.
 Now in the present day not as many Mexicans are killed.However in Phoenix, Arizona a man named Gary Kelley (a 5th generation American citizen) killed his neighbor while after yelling "Go back to Mexico or die".
Other cases:
On May 30, 2009, US citizens Raul "Junior" Flores, 29, and his daughter, Brisenia Flores, age nine, of  Arizona, were murdered by Shawna Forde, executive director of Minutemen troops.

On July 2008, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, was beaten to death by several young men in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania while walking home one evening. They yelled racial comments towards Ramirez as they beat him. Luis' (white) fiance and mother of his two children, Crystal Dillman, was quoted as saying of the four teenagers.
        What happened to we are all equal.  I hear people wherever i go making comments about not only Mexicans but other Latin-American people. "D.. Mexicans", "Go back to Mexico" are some of the comments that racist people say against us. Ive even heard people have the gut to say "Get out of our  land", when we all know that they have less right than us to be here. I have also been in the situation were at the start people treaded me nice, and after they find out I'm Mexican they would be mean or just say "I don't like Mexicans, but your OK because your light skeined". I just believe that people should start viewing individuals for what they are inside not for what race they are or for what skin color they have. This continues till this day to be an existing conflict between races. Not just for Mexicans but for all kinds of minorities living here in the united states.

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