By DANIEL SHOER ROTH
dshoer@MiamiHerald.com
Hispanics were the first to settle in the United States. Half a millennium later, we are the largest minority. And if there were a time machine, we would see that by the middle of this century we will be almost one-third of the U.S. population.
Today, a U.S. Supreme Court judge is Latina. So are two secretaries of President Obama's Cabinet. We have 27 representatives and one senator in Congress. We have stood out at NASA, in the Army and at the CIA.
What does not exist, ironically, is a national museum that untangles and exalts our legacy in the development of the United States since 1565, when Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded the nation's oldest city, St. Augustine.
Posted By: Ayanna Spikes
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/02/1507442/its-time-for-a-national-hispanic.html
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