Strange video with a question about one part

[DTchickens]

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Technically the native americans (Aka indians, which were here before us. "And the vikings which came before the english" ) Didn't speak english, so maybe we all should have just learnt they're language

 

[HennysMom]

Yes...I know that... and I think what the gov't did to the Indians is horrible - but - we're talking about today, not past.

I'm just saying that there are two sides to every story; much like others have said on this post - not every person chooses to better themselves and way too many will gladly blame the government for everything - instead of trying to better themselves.

 

[DTchickens]

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yeah, I've seen some that wont better themselves, seen some that try, but cant. seen some that have given up. seen some that like living that way you name it,

 

[andorraclaim]

I am not an American, I am a Tejano. Just as much American as a Creole, or an Acadian, or an Navajo, or a Hawai'in - our culture will never be American because the United States absorbed us, we did not come looking for America. Tejanos did not come here looking for opportunity or followed the immigrant history of others. A brief breakdown...

Polk (the president who's platform while running was Manifest Destiny regardless of who we went to war with...approach vaguely familiar?) won his presidency on a margin smaller than Bush did in '00. Smaller. The first military order he gave was for Zach Taylor (future mason prez) to invade (yes, invade as it was still Mexican territory) South Texas. A few months later the US bullied Mexico in signing over millions of acres without the consent of the people or international diplomacy. The border was changed from the Nueces river to the Rio Grande. Everyone in between became US dependencies overnight, with no immediate or readily available citizenship access, land, or civil rights. It wasn't until the middle of the next century that access to these became available.

So if people are still speaking Spanish in America perhaps it is because access to Americanization was never rooted firmly in these groups due to the acts of aggression that founded these new non-native speakers. More alarming is that this act of do-nothing had a side effect of creating another group of people who are suddenly "native speakers" - the English speakers. These suddenly have a reason and a right to proclaim their "native" culture and worse, harm those who are now suddenly not native.

You are highly opinionated - which is great - however I really urge you to consider the context of your opinions, how they were formed and why you feel that way. If you want to read up on anything I've said I recommend these books:

Occupied America: Fifth Ed by Acuna
With His Pistol in his Hands by Praderas
Limits to Friendship by Pastor and Castaneda

Or just google the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago Land Title Disputes.

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[HennysMom]

uh - why so argumentative? You brought it all up...

" You are highly opinionated - which is great - however I really urge you to consider the context of your opinions, how they were formed and why you feel that way. If you want to read up on anything I've said I recommend these books:"

So if my opinion is great as you state, and I'm entitled to it - then why would you suggest and urge someone to read something on what your opinions are and on how MY opinions were formed??

Aint gonna go there... sorry. Trolling for an argument and I'm not the arguing type.

Next.

 

[the1much]

wanna see a tent city,,, go to the pentagon,, then back up to the south about 1/2 a mile,, the biggest tent city i have ever seen