A Los Angeles Times columnist wrote that he initially believed that the gunman who killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Texas was a “white supremacist” and that he grew despondent upon learning that the alleged shooter was Latino. Gustavo Arellano, who frequently covers the Spanish-speaking immigrant community in Southern California, wrote a column in the Times on Wednesday titled, “A Latino-on-Latino mass shooting. What now?”“When I heard that a gunman had killed multiple schoolchildren in a predominantly Latino town in Texas, I immediately thought: white supremacist,” wrote Arellano, the son of Mexican immigrants. The LA Times column was written by Gustavo Arellano. We’re not unassimilable; we all become part of the United States.”“What Ramos did — stemming from a pathology found almost nowhere else on Earth — is as American as apple pie.”

Source: Los Angeles Times May 27, 2022 05:08 UTC