We’re not too far removed from the Jim Crow South.

Racism toward African Americans is often experienced by Latinxs of African descent. We are all Black in the eyes of the U.S. public, and therefore our Afro-Latinidad identity does not protect us from discrimination.

President Trump announced a $5 billion fundraising effort so that “we can educate people as to the real history of our country.” We are the faculty in Chapman’s History Department, and this is our response.