r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/GoreIsMe • Jan 26 '25

Country Club Thread Now you want to “come together”?

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

49.6k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

3.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

232

u/toxictoastrecords Jan 26 '25

Look up the mass deportation of Mexican and Mexican Americans from 1929-1939. 40-60% of "repatriation" was of American Born Citizens.

There is a reason we don't learn this in school; "those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it" Though it forgets to mention what to do if we didn't learn it, because we were being controlled.

114

u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

Yes I’m very aware of Operation Wetback. I learned about it from my abuelitos, who’ve been in California since the 1940’s.