It was stories about drug traffickers attacking immigrants that inspired Hector Gonzalez Rodriguez III to create 'El Peso Hero,' a Latino crime fighter. “I wanted to create someone like Luke Cage...but living in between southwest Texas and north Mexico'
to Jack Kirby's iconic 1941 comic where Captain America punches Hitler. Kirby came from a Jewish immigrant family. And in Rodriguez's version, El Peso Hero similarly delivers a punch, or “trumpazo,” to Trump in defense of Americans of Mexican heritage and Mexican immigrants.Now, the recent mass shooting in El Paso has given Rodriguez a heightened sense of urgency to defend his Texas community’s history, stories and values.
“Knowing that the shooter lived one mile away from where I create El Peso Hero, where I plan the Latino comic con, it goes against everything we do as a community,” said Rodriguez, who is a fifth-grade teacher and lives near the suburb of Allen, where the suspect in the El Paso shooting had been living with his grandparents.The 21-year-old suspect drove 10 hours from Allen to the border city of El Paso, where more than eight-in-10 residents are Hispanic.
officials told NBC News they believe he posted an anti-Latino manifesto writing about a"Hispanic invasion." For Rodriguez, the shooter's screed aims to distort Mexican American history and stir anxiety and fear in a community where many families are already affected by immigration detentions and deportations.
“We have a history of different groups being called foreigners and invaders,” Rodriguez said."But we need to remember what we are all part of, what we have done together as a country.”
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