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02 Dec

jayjacobo:

This week in Chicano history: 1947 - The Mendez vs. Westminster School District case was the first successful challenge to an 1896 U.S Supreme Court doctrine that allowed “separate but equal” public facilities. thus ending the segregation of Latinos attending public schools & entering all white businesses in California, & being the reference case that eventually, 7 years later, allowed Brown v. Board of Education to end segregation of all minority’s from any institutions & public areas, in America.

Wait, so how come we don’t learn about this in school? Yeah, equal access for Latinos isn’t racial equality, but by ignoring this we’re feeding the white/black racial dichotomy in American society. We’re either sending the message that only blacks were discriminated against or that all PoC were and are treated the same. We need to learn about this case side by side with Brown v. Board because we cannot let society continually lump us together when the forms of discrimination we face are different, when we have historically oppressed differently, when today’s society feels differently about us.

*Also, I edited “Roe v Wade” to “Brown v Board” because those are definitely not the same case.

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