Pachuco and We getting Violent up

A pachuco, then, must be a bad thing, right? Negative connotation must be around it or the Zoot Suit Riots would never had occurred in the first place. According to Daniels, a pachuco was "a urban youth among Mexican Americans"(Daniels 2002).  These individuals were neither good nor bad; they just happened to be stigmatized because of the color of their skins. What eventually led to tension and the impending riots of 1943 was an example of microsgressions, clearly built up inside from Whites in Los Angeles, who did not know how to handle Mexican Americans both male and female standing up for themselves. The aggressors in the Zoot Suit Riots were neither African American nor Mexican American. Not Filipino either. The aggressors were White Military men who went into various areas and attacked anyone they saw who was Mexican American. The end result was over 100 Mexican Americans were injured, some seriously, compared to the less than 20 military men who were also involved. What does that show? A fear of something of the unknown? Were these people targeted just because of a certain way of dress or language or color? We still encounter those same microagressions that play a role in today's society.

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