Posted on 05/10/2013 1:53:21 PM PDT by cap10mike
A Northwestern University Mexican student group finds “eating tacos and drinking tequila” to celebrate Cinco de Mayo racially offensive, and wants to see the practice come to an end. In a letter to the university’s paper, the Latin student group Alianza called for a “respectful” celebration to commemorate “the Battles of Puebla, in which a vastly outnumbered, under-equipped Mexican army twice defeated the well-armed, well-trained French army, which had not lost a battle in over fifty years.”
This is not unlike a uniquely American holiday, which commemorates the moment when 56 men affixed their signatures upon the Declaration of Independence to “mutually pledge to each other [their] lives, [their] fortunes, and [their] sacred honor.”
What followed was a bloody 8-year war “in which a vastly outnumbered, under-equipped” rag-tag group of patriots “defeated the well-armed, well-trained [British] army, which had not lost a battle in over fifty years.”
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Well At home the wetbacks slaughter a goat hanging from a tree
and butcher it! Salsa Music and Cervesa! Nothing like your kid seein goat with it’s throat cut!
Frickin bozo. He should be glad we even think about Mexico.
I mean, it’s not like we celebrate Maple syrup day in homage to Canuhduh send...
I pharte in your general direction.
“So wearing green bowler hats, eating corned beef sammiches and drinking green beer and guiness is not allowed on St. Pattys day either...”
And God forbid we eat on the 4th of July hot dogs, burgers or dare I say it, watermelon......
"I'm directing Sen Schumer to rename immigration reform:
'The Ariel Castro Respect and Dignity for Latinos Bill.""
"A separate amendment---'The Tamarlan Tsarneav Memorial
Amendment'---will provide government-issue pressure cookers,
fireworks, and jars of vaseline for tormented Chechneyan
immigrants seeking "asylum" from govt persecution."
Why not celebrate Alan Shepard’s flight. At least there were more Americans involved in that, rather than the dispute with French bill collectors.
You remember correctly. Note that the Wikipedia page on the battle (take it for what it is worth) gave a strength of 6,500 for the French versus a 4,500 strength for the Mexicans. While they were outnumbered the advantage (3:2) was not necessarily decisive. The terrain also played a significant part in strengthening the Mexican position.
Comparing May 5th’s Mexican insurrection historic relativity to the Declaration of Independence is really a stretch. It would be more like comparing it to Bunker Hill or closer yet the battle of Boston where we kicked the British out. But in Mexico’s case the French came back and kept control.
Probably if the person (sounds like a Mexican national) making that assertion was asked if California, Texas, Arizona etc were part of Mexico you would find agreement.
A village of 1,500 during the winter, "A-Bay" blossoms to 10,000 until after Labour Day. The opening weekend? A celebration of Victoria Day, a Canadian holiday, opens the partying in the village, the unofficial start to summer. The US 'blowout' is Memorial Day, the next weekend. Both July 1 and July 4 are celebrated in "A-Bay" and especially memorable, are years when Canada Dominion Day falls on Friday and Independence Day falls on the Monday! (Sorry, being of United Empire Loyalist stock and very conservative, I LOATHE the name 'Canada Day', prefering the old standard, 'Dominion Day'.)
I would hope that those of us who spent the opening weekend in "A-Bay" all those years ago, were not too badly behaved and I hope the ones who do now, are not troublesome, like your neighbours to the south seem to be! Next week-end is opening week-end for "A-Bay" and the following week-end is Memorial Day. Two weeks early, I wish all FREEpers, a happy amd safe Memorial Day weekend, the beginning of summer!
Then he can get his ass back to Mexico and enjoy his holiday there.
I suppose I should know this, but where the heck is Northwestern University?
Yeah, and I object to non-Irish drinking shots of Jamesons and pints of Guinness and singing rebel songs to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. I demand that they stop!
So, it’s watermelon, collard greens and fried chicken next Cinco de Mayo.
and you can eat and drink what ever the hell you want no matter who you are.
I have been in Mexico on Cinco de Mayo. It is not celebrated down there. Cinco de Mayo is a day like any other day in Mexico. They have a huge celebration and official holiday on September 16 which is their independence day. Cinco de Mayo was practically invented by an American beer distributor who needed to move his inventory of Mexican beer.
Taking Cinco de Mayo seriously, even for the most diehard of Mexicans, is silly. It was the shortest lived victory in the history of the world.
But we’re the idiots that keep it alive. They don’t celebrate it in Mexico.
Nemesis was the name of the Greek goddess of righteous indignation.
Perhaps tacos and tequila is more appropriate for Alamo Day, then?
I suddenly have the urge to play Cowboys and Mexicans. Oh, and I’ll be on the winning side.
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