Friday, August 18, 2023
Cinco de 'Merica
Most people don’t know about the origins of Cinco de Mayo, the American holiday celebrating the Mexican heritage of a great many Southern and Southwestern citizens. As a person intrigued by and enamored of history in general, I recognize that those of us in the Southwestern states understand that our lands have a strong Mexican influence; many Mexican pueblos existed here prior to the landing of the Mayflower, or concurrent to it, including Pueblo, Colorado. That does not give anyone license to illegally jump the border any more than America’s defeat of Mexico in 1846 gives one the right to jump the border and claim some part of Mexico as reparations.
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Yea, yea, something something White Folks are dumb. Pass me a margarita, bitch.
ReplyDeleteThere is a school of thought that says Napoleon III was worried that the United States was becoming a superpower and that by intervening in Mexico in 1861 he thought he could get the French army in place along the southern border to jump in on the side of the Confederacy to keep the USA broken up and in turmoil and the defeat of the French at the Battle of Puebla slowed them down just enough to prevent that. Cinco De Mayo celebrates a battle that was won by the side that lost the war and the celebrated Battle of the Alamo in 1836 was a battle that was lost by the side that won.
ReplyDeleteThe Alamo is the only other known victory for the Mexican army. The invaders here would be risking death if they utter so much as a peep.
DeleteThe "Pueblos" are not Mexican.....
ReplyDeleteThank you for the truth.
DeleteTwo ways the pueblos weren't mexi.
- Mex didn't exist until independence from Spain in 1821. Before Spain, that land was tribal, zero union or national identity.
- The U.S. lands they teach that had once belong to mex, do not show any signs of mex occupation, nor economy, not even trading or war between indian tribes and 'mexicans'.
You live in the USA, you don't get to celebrate a holiday from your old country. If you like your old country that much, GO BACK THERE. You won't be missed.
ReplyDeleteNemo
And if they don't go back we shouldn't miss them either.
Delete5th of May, isn't that when the Mexicans kicked Frances ass ?
ReplyDeleteAbsolut vodka did an ad campaign years ago, they showed a US map with Mexico in possession of the Southwest, the Reconquista, and the slogan "In An Absolut World" on top. That's when I quit buying Absolut vodka.
ReplyDeleteNever celebrated any cino de mayo, never cared what it was about... Still don't
ReplyDeleteJD
Stinko de Mayo is nothing but a disaster down here in South Texas. As if the squat monsters needed any more excuse to get drunk in public.
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