jeankd:fandomshatepoc:acceber74:What’s sad about this is that Chinese people, were in the “Old West”
jeankd:fandomshatepoc:acceber74:What’s sad about this is that Chinese people, were in the “Old West”, but ignorant [white] people insist on getting their history from whitewashed Hollywood westerns that actively exclude anyone that isn’t white.Just in case you want to do some further reading (I was never introduced to in my public education so I thought I’d share):The Chinese Exclusion Act ended just 71 years ago http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/chinese-exclusion-act-ended-seventy-one-years-ago-today-n270276A timeline of immigration restrictions starting with the Chinese Exclusion Act http://www.pbs.org/ancestorsintheamericas/time_21.html“…Chinese immigrants arrived in theU.S., mainly on the West coast. By 1870, the Chinese were 8.6 % ofthe total population of California and constituted 25% of the labor force. Chinese immigrants arrived on U.S. shores between the start of the Californiagold rush in 1849 and 1882, until the U.S. Congress enacted federal law in1882 designed to prevent Chinese immigrants from entering or remaining inthe U.S.“ xThe Chinese Exclusion Act Raised the Price of Becoming an American A New Exhibit Tells the Story From the Immigrant’s Point of View.Black people and Mexicans were the original cowboys, but white people took that shit too. -- source link