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AmBlue (2,432 posts)About Uvalde, I can't help but wonder...How much did deep-seated racism play a role in what happened there? I don't see this being discussed much. Granted, I've turned off much of the news coverage because it's so painful to watch, but for me this is the "elephant in the room." I did see Joy Reid speak about slow police response times in black and brown communities that POC are far too familiar with. But this goes beyond that. The egregious choice by law enforcement to arrest terrified parents and stand down while kids were being slaughtered-- this reeks of not only negligence and incompetence, but also of disdain and even malice. So my question is this: Did the police officers intentionally act with malice toward the children and families of this predominantly Latino community?I am asking this because I've been to Uvalde. It is a beautiful, quiet little west Texas town. My ex-husband's family lived there since the late 1970s, and I was there in the 1980s. At that time, most service jobs, like restaurant servers, fast food workers, lawn service, etc., are filled by Mexicans. Business owners were predominantly white. As a white person visiting that town, my impression at that time was that it was an idyllically peaceful little town where most residents had lived for many years, even generations. Everywhere we went, people knew immediately that I was from out of town and asked my family members who I was. We went for drives in the beautiful hill country, and went tubing on the peaceful Frio River.The one thing I found shocking about Uvalde back then was the casual, derogatory way that many of the white people I met there (including members of my own family) referred to people in the Mexican community, calling them "Mess-cans," or "dirty Mess-cans." It was very uncomfortable to me as I was raised in an urban area that is culturally more diverse and, at least the way I grew up, we were taught not to treat anyone that way. There were lots of older white men in those straw cowboy hats and you could sense that they were the "rulers" of that little town. They had a definite "strut" in the way they walked... chest out, thumb tucked under their belts.So I'm curious if anyone here at DU is from Uvalde and has more recent experience and an informed opinion of this. Is there still a strong racist undercurrent in Uvalde today? Do you think it is possible that law enforcement acted with disdain and/or malice at Robb Elementary School?https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216749743
Uvalde is 80 percent Hispanic you demented fool.
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AmBlue (2,432 posts)About Uvalde, I can't help but wonder...How much did deep-seated racism play a role in what happened there? I don't see this being discussed much. Granted, I've turned off much of the news coverage because it's so painful to watch, but for me this is the "elephant in the room."
The one thing I found shocking about Uvalde back then was the casual, derogatory way that many of the white people I met there (including members of my own family) referred to people in the Mexican community, calling them "Mess-cans," or "dirty Mess-cans."
There's a reason why patriotism is considered a conservative value. Watch a Tea Party rally and you'll see people proudly raising the American flag and showing pride in U.S. heroes such as Thomas Jefferson. Watch an OWS rally and you'll see people burning the American flag while showing pride in communist heroes such as Che Guevera. --Bob, from some news site
