tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415178.post7490430996043171290..comments2023-10-23T00:04:35.356-04:00Comments on The Vault of Buncheness: "INDEPENDENCE DAY?" NOT FOR MY ANCESTORS, IT WASN'T...Bunche (pop culture ronin)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11831085937894725459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415178.post-55844307191652332352007-07-04T08:54:00.000-04:002007-07-04T08:54:00.000-04:00Actually, many Mexicans were already here. Almost ...Actually, many Mexicans were already here. Almost half of the continental US <I>was originally part of Mexico</I>. Portions of it it were "won" from Spain or purchased from France(*); the rest was either ceded from Mexico by treaty or taken by force of arms... often by the Latinos who felt they'd get a better deal from the US than they would by remaining part of Mexico (and in many ways, they were right). Yes, boys and girls, many of those brave men - and women - at the Alamo were of Mexican descent. Funny how rarely that comes up in so-called "histories." <BR/><BR/>Oh, yeah - and let's not forget the role of Arab traders in the African Slave Inferno. Had it not been for the unholy combination of African tribal warriors selling their conquered enemies to Arab traders, the Spanish and Porteugese would never have had the wherewithal to ship large amounts of Africans to their American holdings to start with. Europeans did not penetrate the interior of Africa proper until the tail end of the slave era. Until then, those slaves were captured and sold by an African-Arabian alliance - a fact glossed over by the loathesome anti-Semite revisionists who revere Islam and blame Jews for the Triangle Trade.(**)<BR/><BR/><BR/>-------------<BR/>* - France's claim to that bit of real-estate was rather shaky. Napoleon was stuck in a very expensive war back in Europe, so he sold off what he rightly considered to be some very expensive-to-maintain property in the "New World" to help fund his army. Much of that land, however, "belonged" to Spain as part of the Mexico territory - at least as far as those snotty Europeans reckoned things, anyway. <BR/><BR/>** - Another conveniently-forgotten fact: The Triangle Trade began with Spain - <I>where it was illegal upon pain of death to be Jewish</I>. The Spanish Inqusition had seen to that, and it was in full force during nearly all of the slavery era.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415178.post-70674295929740506112007-07-03T19:35:00.000-04:002007-07-03T19:35:00.000-04:00when you're right, you're right!when you're right, you're right!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com