The more you study history, the more you realize that no group or organization is perfect.
I imagine you would find atrocities on both sides, if you looked hard enough. But it would be pity to stir up racial hatred over things that happened 90 years ago, which is what Jan Jarboe Russell appears intent on doing.
She's catering to Mexican ethnic revanchism and irredentism, which are strong in the identity-political salons of San Antonio.
Not a word in the excerpt about the Plan de San Diego that started the 1915 disorders, I see. That old Texas cowboy who's supposedly the source must have forgotten about the scores of Texas ranchers who were shot or hacked to death by gangs of Mexicans and Texas Mexicans -- their own employees, in some cases.
Not a word, either, about the fact that during the 80's and later (to this day, for all I know), young Mexican toughs rode around together on back roads in the Valley, looking for American girls to rape, which was explained in a news story I read as a political act -- intended as an object demonstration of contempt for the United States, its people, its culture, and its laws.