Last week's deadly shooting in El Paso is the latest example of anti-Mexican violence in 200 years of Texas history, historians tell TPRNews.
chilling shadow over their defiant shows of strength and unity. For others, the tragedy offers opportunities to elicit bittersweet smiles, express their love for each other and confront this nation's darkest truths.The makeshift memorial at the Walmart store where the shootings took place has grown by the hour. Visitors brought candles, signs and depictions of religious figures as they paid their respects and wiped away tears.
Since the shooting, there have been calls for the government to enact policies to stop this from happening again, ranging from stricter gun control to an improved mental health care system, to removing violent video games from store shelves. Ariel Chenoweth, her grandmother Rocio Landeros, and Maria Hernandez. They live in fear of going out in public since the Aug. 3 mass shooting in El Paso. They felt safe at the memorial because of the increased police presence."Everyone has their threshold for injustice," he said."It comes to a tipping point where people say, 'you know what? That’s it. That’s my family member, my community' … It can’t just be a one day, it can’t be an event.
"One of the things I find most useful as a historian — but also it’s kind of a burden of being a historian — is that when things happen, you can tell when it happened before and before and before," she said."So this language goes back to the 1820s where we’re criminals, where we’re lazy, where we shouldn’t be part of the United States and all the way until now."
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