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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts) Sun Feb 7, 2016, 02:20 PM Feb 2016

Texas Finally Acknowledges Rangers Killed Hundreds of Latinos

Texas Finally Acknowledges Rangers Killed Hundreds of Latinos
By Cindy Casares • February 3, 2016

A new exhibit in Austin, Texas examines a little-known chapter in the state's history, a time when Texas Rangers and white, civilian vigilantes massacred hundreds—if not thousands—of Mexican Americans or Tejanos between 1915 and 1919 in what historians have called some of the worst state-sanctioned racial violence in the U.S.............

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Texas Finally Acknowledges Rangers Killed Hundreds of Latinos (Original Post) L. Coyote Feb 2016 OP

You can tell they're bandits-they're laying there dead! catnhatnh Feb 2016 #1

What a shame they swept it under the carpet. It's time to illuminate it completely. Judi Lynn Feb 2016 #2

catnhatnh

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1. You can tell they're bandits-they're laying there dead!

Reply to L. Coyote (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 04:27 PM

Feb 2016

The standard has never changed...

Judi Lynn

(160,530 posts)

2. What a shame they swept it under the carpet. It's time to illuminate it completely.

Reply to L. Coyote (Original post)

Mon Feb 8, 2016, 10:07 PM

Feb 2016

Why should these things be lied about forever?

Time to cleanse the nation's conscience, sooner or later it's going to be revealed in ways that can't be denied any longer.

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