Richard Parker, an author and journalist, has been a passionate and authentic voice to the voiceless in the aftermath of the El Paso shooting. Latino20
about the detention camps, climate change along the border and Texas politics.
But no event hit home for him like the Aug. 3 massacre at his city's familiar Walmart. He wrote about the experience in stark terms, describing it as “a stab in the heart not to your hometown, but to your people, in my case Latinos. specifically came here to my town, to kill my people.” Parker reminded us that Latinos have always been part of American history:"Of course, Latinos arrived in Texas from Mexico in 1690, when it was all New Spain. My people settled the harsh brush country of south Texas. ... We invaded nothing; we were already here long before was even conceived."
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