After seeing some films in the course of Chicana history such as A Class Apart, A Struggle for Educational Equality and Latin and African Americans: Friends or foes , I don't one can help but wonder how it is that you are learning about the intense racism towards Latinos in the United States for the first time after dedicating your life to the American country. I myself was born and raised in Arizona, a state in the south of the United States, in the city of Tucson which is located just an hour away, or about 68 miles from the Mexican border in Nogales, Sonora. You might assume that you know a sufficient amount of the history of the nearby land or at least are aware of some basic facts about American-Mexico relations throughout Texas. It has to do with Pedro Fernandez who killed his employer after a heated argument in a cellar. Realizing that this was not simply a murder case, but a case in which Mexican discrimination could be seen, Gus Garcia and a team of Mexican-American lawyers took the case all the way to the Supreme Court where they challenged Jim-style discrimination Crow vs. Mexican Americans. On May 3, 1954, the Supreme Court announced its ruling on the case; Pedro would receive a new trial and be tried by a real jury of his peers since Mexican Americans were protected by the 14th Amendment. Hernandez V. Texas marked a date of change in the United States of America when the Supreme Court recognized the Mexican-American class truly as a class. American public schools promised a postwar generation of students, many of whom would graduate and go on to higher education. however, the schools were segregated due to the "separate but equal" law. In the film Latinos and Afro-Americans: Friends or Foes, the struggle between Latinos and African Americans due to American discrimination is analyzed and it can be concluded that the competition between the two, for not being the race it was basically, could intensify . Not only were there political conflicts that caused communities to divide, but there were also problems in education, a common problem involving bilingual education. Education plays a big role in these two films, not only were the schools segregated and people of color had the worst facilities and were treated poorly, but there were conflicts between them (Latinos and African Americans) as well. It wasn't fair to treat these races the same when in reality they were different from each other