“”There is no denying significant differences between Hispanic-Catholic and Anglo-Protestant cultural assumptions,” Gomez acknowledged, while also making the case that we are a nation whose story is not complete without both.”
‘Not complete without both’?
I must have overlooked all of those Hispanic-Catholics influential in the original 13 Colonies. Or during the first 200 years of America’s existence for that matter.
Gomez is just spouting more of the same garbage intended to justify the very recent Hispanic-Catholic invasion of illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America, garbage which we will soon hear repeated by Hannity and other pro-Amnesty buffoons in the GOP orbit.
Fort Caroline (1564-1669) - First established by the French Huguenots 25 Jun 1564. ... by establishing St. Augustine in Florida the very next year, 1565.
The taking of Fort Caroline was followed by
the brutal massacre at Matanzas Inlet of
Ribault and another 350 French soldiers and
sailors.
The French effort to claim La Florida
was over.
The next year the Spanish Roman Catholic Conquistador Menendez, who later founded St. Augustine, captured and murdered some of the 500+ French civilians, AFTER they surrendered--simply because they refused to convert to Roman Catholicism.
This brutal massacre even shocked Europe at the time, baptizing Roman Catholic history in America in the blood of Protestant Christians.
Unless I'm quite confused, there were settlements in America for quite some time before this, one near St. Louis reaching a population of well over 10,000.
All kidding aside, I realize he is talking about European settlements, but the statement itself turns the issue of priority into one of Protestant vs. Catholic, ignoring that people had lived here for thousands of years before whitey showed up, whatever his denomination.
Seizing the opportunity, Menendez marched north with 500 soldiers to attack the weakly guarded colony. Forty or fifty French people, including Laudonniere, escaped and sailed for France.
Out of the remaining 200 people, only about 60 women and children were spared.
At a place later named Matanzas (Slaughter), he put to the sword about 350 men.
Menendez had them hanged from a tree. On the tree he wrote, “This is done, not as unto Frenchmen, but as unto Lutherans.” all but those professing to be Catholics and a few musicians.
On the same tree De Gourgues hanged certain unfortunate Spanish prisoners, and placed on the tree the inscription, “This is done, not as unto Spaniards, but as unto liars, thieves, and murderers.” -