El Paso horror spotlights long history of anti-Latino violence in the US | By Irene Sanchez for CNNOpinion
Irene Sanchez is a writer and public scholar whose work has appeared in HuffPost, Zocalo Public Square, Inside Higher Ed and on multiple public radio outlets in California. The views expressed here are hers. Read more opinion on CNN.
We cannot fight back against white supremacy if we don't even know the history of what has taken place. It takes knowing that history to know that the rise in hate crimes since Donald Trump's election to President as well as this past week's horror is a continuation of a long legacy of violence since before 1848. What happened in El Paso was a massacre and a hate crime.
Irene SanchezSince Trump was elected president, hate crimes against Latinos have increased: In 2018, an FBI report showed that reports of such crimes grew by 24% in 2017. The shooter who killed 20 people in an El Paso Walmart Saturday drove many hours to target a city with a population that consists of over 80% Hispanics and Latinos, mainly of Mexican background, and is a popular destination for shoppers from Mexico on the weekend.
Trump: We must condemn white supremacy 02:34Over 180 years after the Mexican American War supposedly ended, some of us in the US are watching in horror seeing this newer and more brutal white supremacy again -- and this time it is not just at the border. In 21st-century terms, the ghosts of that violence are visible in the rhetoric coming from our President, with national consequences. During his campaign for President, Donald Trump called Mexicans drug dealers, criminals, and rapists.
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