They stole it from the Indians...............So, lets arm the Indians................
And this Indian tribe stole it from that Indian tribe, going all the way back.
The take-away lesson is: if you can take, you can take it.
And if you can’t hold it, you will lose it to some group that will take it.
Which is where we find ourselves today.
...lands of the Southwest that were stolen from our Mexican ancestors.
Not only that, they stole the land that had all the jobs on it.
That is exactly what I love of the argument. Spaniards who stole from the indigenous trying to reclaim land taken by English descendants.... The Spaniards are the ones who ripped them for their gold... etc etc etc. Were those Spaniards part muslim? Maybe that is the real issue. The real estate. Muslim real estate.
The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas.
Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans.
It wasn’t stolen from anybody. The total Indian population of all of Texas probably wasn’t 50,000, and hardly any Spaniards lived north of the Rio Grande.
Texas and the rest of the Southwest are very, very hard places to live without modern technology. Moreover, Spaniards didn’t want to leave temperate, safe, and fertile central Mexico because they knew that the Indians up North viewed killing Spaniards as an excellent form of recreation.
So, people ought to recognize that these “Reconquista” claims regarding Texas are based on the presence of less than a big subdivision’s worth of stone-age nomads and not even a tenth of that in terms of Spaniards. The same situation essentially prevailed in the rest of the Southwest.
There is no legitimate claim to Texas or the Southwest, and absolutely nothing to feel “guilty” about.