Refusing to Forget

📖 A must-read article featuring Refusing to Forget co-founder Sonia Hernandez on the re-installation of the Texas Ranger statue at Globe Life Field.

Sonia puts it beautifully:

“It’s not about being politically correct,” said Hernández. “It’s not about supporting one group over another. It’s about the kind of nation that we can have, built on trust and honesty and respect for one another.

You ask yourself, ‘By doing this one thing or by supporting this one thing, am I living up to that standard? Is this the kind of world that we want to promote?’

Really thinking about the next generation, especially at a ballpark where you take your kids.”

🔗 Learn more about the 1956 Mansfield incident: https://refusingtoforget.org/mansfield-school.../

Give it a read and let us know your thoughts. 👇

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-context-of-the-texas-ranger-statue-at-globe-life-field/

The Context of the Texas Ranger Statue at Globe Life Field Without acknowledging its history, the Rangers have installed a statue that was removed from public display over concerns about racism.

The "One Riot, One Ranger" statue, removed from Dallas Love Field Airport in 2020, has been reinstalled at Globe Life Field in Arlington.
The statue is modeled after Capt. E.J. "Jay" Banks who, during the 1956 Mansfield school integration attempt, stood alongside a white segregationist mob rather than enforce a federal desegregation order. This photograph depicts Banks on that day— a white officer lounging against a tree— ignoring both explicit, actionable threats of racist violence and his legal duty.

🔗 The 1956 Mansfield incident: https://refusingtoforget.org/mansfield-school-integration-attempt/
🔗 On the re-installation: https://www.chron.com/sports/article/texas-rangers-statue-fans-21952342.php
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7085220/2026/03/03/texas-rangers-statue-dallas-airport/

Did you know the anthology ‘Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border’ is available in Spanish? Available free online thanks to Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León!

📌🇲🇽🇺🇸Te invitamos a consultar el 📚libro ⚔️'Rebrotes de violencia racial. Reflexiones críticas sobre la historia de la frontera', ✍️de Sonia Hernández (Texas A&M University) y John Morán González (The University of Texas at Austin); editado recientemente por la UANL.

🔗https://libros.uanl.mx/index.php/u/catalog/view/163/226/562

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