Following up on a recent Observer cover story, a professor in Texas is seeking action and recognition from the state government.
Delcia LopezIt was 1915, and los rinches — the Texas Rangers — were killing Mexicans, Mexican Americans and hundreds of other people with relative impunity. On this particular day, September 16, members of the widely feared police force were questioning a woman named Santos Gamboa and her family at a ranch near Edinburg, Texas.
“I want them to be a part of this conversation,” Gonzales says of the pro-Ranger contingent. “That’s part of due process.” Gonzales, a former journalist, first thought of the idea in late 2021, at which point he resigned from the board of Refusing to Forget, a nonprofit focused on the Rangers’ legacy of violence. He didn’t want to serve on the board while pursuing this commission, he says, because it could be seen as a distraction.
“I make this request as a matter of justice,” he writes, “not some WOKE ideology. The need for justice dates before the idea of WOKENESS even was conceived.”
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