Some of the adoration pairs with the fact that so many Mexican Americans in NM constantly refer to themselves as “Spanish”. What’s with that?
Here’s my 2019 story about a new generation of Native American and Latino activists demanding that conquistador imagery and names be removed from seals, schools and streets. The statues are now facing more scrutiny as Confederate statues fallhttps://apnews.com/acc20409fd2046158c2cacca7a9ecd89 …
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John M. Nieto-Phillip explains that in his book "The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s" Interestingly, Albuquerque-born, groundbreaking ed scholar George I Sanchez identified as Mex American
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As a New Mexican with Native and Spanish lineage, this is a hard one to deal with. Both bloodlines are not present in my memory or my parents. Lots of New Mexicans are trying to grasp onto some identity.
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I think what’s left is the food, broken bits of the Spanish language, and stories we learn in 8th and 10th grade New Mexico history.
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One song comes to mind with all of this upheaval and chaos of hating on our nation's history: Cat Stevens "Father and Son". Pandering to the youngest generations may result in history repeating itself once the bad reminders are removed from the American landscape.
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Didn’t cat Stevens change his name and convert to Islam
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Conspiracy theorists thrive on "Prove it really happened the way you say it did". After all of the reminders of the Confederate War and slavery are gone, and everything is renamed - a hundred years from now will future generations really believe that we fought a Civil War?
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If they are named after Union heroes, maybe. It's possible with Confederate monuments still around some may assume the South won the war. Did they?
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Mission system iconoclasm tour along the California coast, summer 2020
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It's time to take down Buffalo Soldier monuments because they systematically killed Mexicans and Native Americans.
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