Latinx Files: TikTok creator becomes guardian angel for California food vendors

Meet Jesus Morales, the TikTok content creator that has become a guardian angel for several street vendors in California. “Take it!” #Humanity 🎥 juixxe pic.twitter.com/agbWiwFduy — Brian Solis January 16, 2021 As has been the case with any group of marginalized people, the COVID-19 shutdown has been hard on food vendors. “That’s why Mexican Americans exist, because of the fact that there was this war of conquest that was driven by the notion of ‘Manifest Destiny,’ a term coined in conjunction with all of this,” said Ernesto Chavez, a history professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and author of “The U.S. War With Mexico: A Brief History with Documents.” “Manifest destiny,” the idea that it was the United States’ divine right to expand to the Pacific, was coined in 1845 by John O’Sullivan in an editorial that argued for the annexation of Texas and the Oregon territory. “It’s important for people to think about how they are products of history, and why this relationship between these countries exists.” Meet our readers: Joshua Rivera As I mentioned in the inaugural newsletter, the Latinx Files belongs to you. It’s hard to put into words, but I’m very proud of that.” Latinx voters really turned out in 2020 According to a new study from the City University of New York, more than half of Latinx voters eligible to vote in 2020 actually cast a ballot in the presidential election — a historic first.