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Originally posted by Spanky
I thought I was going to puke when I read this. And the young nation of Texas was so accomodating to the hispanics that helped win the revolution from Mexico? Didn't I read somewhere that after the revolution the new government helped disposses all the hispanic of their land and gave that land to the Anglos.
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Why thank you, I never knew that the entire history of the state can be generalized in the 11 years it was an independent nation.
That particular war was about slavery, in part, as well. Didn't you want to highlight that? Or maybe the part where we seceded from the United States. Again, because of slavery? Or how the new state of Texas would levy taxes in English, in Austin, on Hispanics in South Texas and then sieze the land for failure to pay taxes that no one had ever heard of? Or maybe the part about the Spanish slaughtering Indians wholesale? Or the part where the Texas Rangers used to shoot Hispanics for sport? Or the part about the Jim Crow laws and segregation that balt was talking about earlier? The ones that lasted until the mid-80s.
I know much, much more about the history of Texas than you ever will, including the godawful things. My family has been here since 1753. They haven't managed to kick us out yet, no matter how much they try. The only country that's dispossessed my family of land was Mexico in 1936, when Cardenas repatraited any property owned by foreigners, including 300,000 acres on the other side of the river owned by my great-grandfather, an American citizen.
If I had said the same thing about the US, you wouldn't have batted an eye, even though the US hasn't particularly been kind to Hispanic people in it's history.
Seems to me that this whole debate is based, in part, in the sudden horror some people have that parts of this country aren't going to be Anglo dominated in less than half a century. There's no majority ethnicity in Texas right now. I suspect that'll change by 2020, and those kids walking out of school right now are the ones that will be taking over.