john r stanton

john r stanton @dcbigjohn

This program was part of a decades long, racist campaign by politicians, including President Woodrow Wilson, to “other” non-white immigrants, most notably Mexicans. They used Typhus and other disease outbreaks to claim these invaders were bringing disease to the US — PolitiTweet.org

john r stanton @dcbigjohn

While a lot of this history happened in and around El Paso, the city in many ways was able to heal and move past it, even while the rest of the country hadn’t. It became a beautiful, binational place. Which makes the return of this rhetoric and attendant violence all the worse — PolitiTweet.org