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"So, OK. Behind me you see these Tejanos getting ready to give up their lives for the cause of Texas independence. But you should probably know a couple of things. As soon as Texas gets its independence in 1836 and joins the United States nine years later, all the relatives and the descendants of those poor guys back there will become second-class citizens. Many Tejanos will literally be terrorized by their fellow Texans in the years to come -- over land, over opposing slavery.

"And Mexican Americans in general throughout the Southwest, in Texas and in California in particular, will also experience oppression. Segregation, for example, and of every stripe: segregated movie houses, segregated schools, segregated swimming pools. You name it. If you've ever seen 'Giant,' you know what I'm talking about. In fact, a lot of people don't know this, but the first successful case for desegregation in schools wasn't Brown vs. Board of Education, but Roberto Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District. This happened down in San Diego in 1931. True story.

You think that is bad? - do some history on life in Mexico from the Alamo to now for the average Jose...

John Wayne really had something against Hispanics, didn't he? He was married to two: his first wife was Mexican, the second Peruvian and his children are all Hispanic. Also, if this clown had watched Wayne's version of the Alamo, he would have noticed that many of the best characters in the movie were Hispanic, some of the worst, Anglo. But then again, that would confuse his dim mind with the facts.