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So they killed a lot of white English people in order to continue owning their black African people, so they could wipe out the rest of the red Indian people, in order to move west and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people, giving them a place to take off and drop their nuclear weapons on the yellow Japanese people. You know what the motto for this country ought to be? 'You give us a color, we'll wipe it out.'"
- George Carlin
- George Carlin
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The conquest of Mexican land pretty much set the US' views on Latinos in general. Mexico was painted as the antithesis of the US....it was a Catholic country inhabited by people engaging in race mixing. In contrast to the US, which was seen as a land upholding Protestant faith and values and where the purity of the white race was held up as a standard.
And what really forced the Civil War was Stephen Douglass's doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, letting people vote to decide if a new state would be slave or free. Popular sovereignty meant a blood bath, and starting at Lawrence Kansas.
And here in Santa Clara County we have monuments to the last battle to keep California from becoming part of the United States. Californios saw Mexico as corrupt, but they feared that the US would take their land away and make them into slaves. Well, the former did happen, but not the latter.
Extremely Good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXXp1bHd…
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J. Lopez, Versace Green Dress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU4au7hH…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJnFWzxc…
AOC speaks early in this, about the Amazon matter, and Amazon for some reason is getting a huge federal tax rebate.
https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2019/…
Robin Trower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmoMb0gN…