By Enrique Acevedo Enrique Acevedo is anchor of the news program “En Punto” on Televisa.
from World Outlook [reprinted from Washington Post]
"The opinion column below first appeared in the Washington Post on June 14, 2025. World-Outlook publishes it for the information of our readers. We think it tackles an important cultural dimension of the recent protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s intensified wave of workplace raids and deportations of undocumented immigrants.
The headline, subhead, photo, and text below are taken from the original. The endnote is by World-Outlook."
This country isn’t the flag. This country is made of people from many countries.
Fly whatever flag you want, especially if you and yours came from that country. Remember where you came from.
Unless you’re a Confederate. You lost. That flag don’t fly.
Also no one around today really came from the Confederacy. It’s not anyone’s heritage. It was around 160 years ago and lasted less time than Obama’s presidency. Anyone claiming it today is just using it as a crutch for their hatred and bigotry.
Mexico only occupied California for a score of years or so. Anyone claiming “This was Mexico once” (as the article did) is an idiot.
This is a really bad argument that people use. Plenty good causes have lost.
The issue with the Confederacy is that it was a really bad cause, fighting for the enslavement of millions for generations.