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I found it interesting how she almost plays off the decision to move to California as her parents decisions that they made without the force of governmental pressure. Yes there were no weapons forcing them to move or marching them down a path they did not want to take, but the propaganda for leaving (the promise of a better life, the false advertisements of wealth and opportunity) would have been enough to get any group of people to leave their homelands, especially if they had been used to poverty for an extended period of time. The American government does not have the best track record when it comes to handling relations with other ethnicities and races in terms of making equal opportunities available. Ghettos turned ethnic enclaves seem to be a recurring theme in American minority history, and each minority group has had an impact on the development of the America that exists today, therefore each group does deserve to have recognition, not just the African Americans and women, but the Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps, the chicano Americans who were limited in their migration but who were instrumental in making the US a transcontinental commerce, and finally the Native Americans, who suffered every time white Americans wanted to move and take their land. No group should be excluded in American history and none should be excluded in how they are remembered and honored today. --jmarshal | I found it interesting how she almost plays off the decision to move to California as her parents decisions that they made without the force of governmental pressure. Yes there were no weapons forcing them to move or marching them down a path they did not want to take, but the propaganda for leaving (the promise of a better life, the false advertisements of wealth and opportunity) would have been enough to get any group of people to leave their homelands, especially if they had been used to poverty for an extended period of time. The American government does not have the best track record when it comes to handling relations with other ethnicities and races in terms of making equal opportunities available. Ghettos turned ethnic enclaves seem to be a recurring theme in American minority history, and each minority group has had an impact on the development of the America that exists today, therefore each group does deserve to have recognition, not just the African Americans and women, but the Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps, the chicano Americans who were limited in their migration but who were instrumental in making the US a transcontinental commerce, and finally the Native Americans, who suffered every time white Americans wanted to move and take their land. No group should be excluded in American history and none should be excluded in how they are remembered and honored today. --jmarshal | ||
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| + | I found this story really interesting, and I feel like it is an area that is not often discussed. I personally was not aware of efforts by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to relocate native Americans to urban areas as if they had not been moved around enough! The authors comparison of her journey to the trail of tears immediately caught my attention and in many ways her experiences could be compared to those of her ancestors. I also found it really interesting that her family bonded with the latina family in their neighborhood, this family probably were immigrants at one time so its nice to think that they would reach out and help another family going through similar experiences.-Emma | ||
==A Letter to the Editor of ''The Ladder'' from an African American Lesbian, 1957== | ==A Letter to the Editor of ''The Ladder'' from an African American Lesbian, 1957== | ||
