Pushed by the LA “Latinos”?
THEY of all people should be celebrating Columbus. Wihtout Columbus you don’t have the Spanish conquerors that followed him in the Western Hemisphere. Without the Spanish, they - people living in and around Mexico City and part of the Aztec/Mextec culture there would not have been north of the Rio Grande.
There were no major Aztec or Mextec settlements more than 200 miles north of Mexico City. The “Mexicans” that came north were first brought north by the Spanish and used to quell opposition from the Native Americans they encountered here.
The European Spanish elite in charge of Mexico became the Mexican elite, and their descendants became the upper classes of Mexico. It is no more a “Native American” society than the U.S. or Canada. BUT Columbus they - “Latinos” - could rightly celebrate. Without him, they’d still be down in Mexico City honoring the Aztec Gods.
When are the Latinos going to stop clinging to Spanish, the language of their conquerors? Their cultural pride is very queer.
Shall we compare the history and state of development in the countries of the world that were “conquered” by the English vs the Spanish and Portuguese?
So the LA City Council wants to celebrate the butchering cannibalistic slave owning indigenous Aztecs and their mestizo ancestry brought by the enlightened Conquistadores?
Hola!
Wait, isn’t Spanish a language of cultural oppression?