Even third-generation Mexican Americans like me have a soft spot for El Tri. But there's a difference between rooting for a country and rooting for a country's soccer team.
The radically redesigned museum should take one more radical step when it reopens to the public on May 4: Make it free for Los Angeles County residents in recognition of their $125 million investment.
The "MONUMENTS" exhibit in downtown Los Angeles examines the removal of Confederate hero statutes. But it ignores L.A.'s own reckoning with controversial historical figures.