"Those who do not learn the lessons of history ... yada, yada ..."

Latinos Encounter a New ‘Grapes of Wrath’ Situation in California

Seventy-five years ago in The Grapes of Wrath, his classic 1939 Great Depression novel, John Steinbeck depicted a similar confrontation between Californians and down-and-out arrivals to their state. The difference is that in Steinbeck’s book the targets of widespread anger were not immigrants. They were migrants from the Dust Bowl of the South and Southwest who had come to California when drought made their lives as farmers impossible.                

“What happens when they come here with diseases and can overrun our schools?  How much is this costing us?” a Murrieta protester was quoted as asking the town’s mayor this month.                

In The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck has an angry Californian use almost identical language to say of the Dust Bowl migrants, “They bring diseases, they’re filthy. We can’t have them in the schools. They’re strangers.”        

It's not they didn't learn the lessons of history, it's that they don't know or care about history. It's all me-me-me to the anti-Latino Teatard crowd.