Posted on 07/30/2002 12:50:57 PM PDT by Vets_Husband_and_Wife
It is a long post.. but it is an important one. I hope many of you will see the way liberals like my niece twist Martin Luther Kings dreams (I think he was more like the Thomas Sowells of the world, who feel that living in the past, holds people back, be they Indian, Black, or Mexican etc.)
I'm appalled at the condescending and patronizing tone of her e-mail. After all SHE HAS A MASTERS DEGREE!!!
She is 31, I'm not saying she has no right to her opinion but she is teaching our kids with this mindset.
I'm going to set up a hotmail account, where you can e-mail her and "correct" her idiotic statements, as I know only those here at FR can.
I ask anyone who finds this e-mail frightening in its ignorance, anyone who feels privledged to live in this great land to write her. All people of Indian, Hispanic, Black or Irish heritage to please respond to her.
I will view the e-mails before I forward them to her. (I will not forward hate mail, or threatening mail. I don't think that would serve her or us well.)
But I would like to see how people would respond to her and plan on forwarding the responses to her.
Please note at the end of her e-mail, how she acknowledges the HATE these people (MEChA) display against the Jews, and how easily she dismisses it.
Also note, how she tends to agree they should have California, Texas, and Arizona etc, back!!!!
UN believable!!!!!!!
Then she goes on to patronize more, by acting as though being aware of hate groups like MEChA (Who I liken to Extremist Muslims, not the average Muslim) is unChristian!!
I live in an extremely diverse community. We love our Hispanic, East Indian, Black and diverse neighbors. This community is extremely tolerant and peaceful. We are polite to each other, and friendly. We are neighbors. But according to my niece, unless you have a MASTERS DEGREE and speak fluent Spanish, you don't know what you are talking about.
I find this attitude of naivity extremely dangerous. What about you?
Here is the e-mail addy I just set up:
telltheteacher101@hotmail.com
Thanks all.
We must remember that this southwestern part of "our" country - California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and part of Colorado - used to be another country - Mexico. We went to war with Mexico, and as a result of the signing of the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, we moved the border of Mexico to the Rio Grande, thus taking about 1/2 of their country for our own. We "won" it.This is what happens when we don't teach history (or worse, teach the PC variant).
We paid for the land in question. We paid a total of $18 million dollars for the "Mexican Cession", $15 million directly to the government of Mexico and an additional $3 million of debt to American citizens was assumed. In addition, we paid $10 million for the "Gadsden Purchase", a small chunk of land that is now in southern Arizona and New Mexico. We overpaid for Gadsden because some felt that we had underpaid for the Cession...even though we paid even less for the Louisiana Purchase.
Oh yeah, we also did them the courtesy of giving back their national capital that we had captured in a war.
-Eric
But Spain stole the land from the Indians, so it really belongs to them right? Along with all of North and South America?
But the many Indian tribes stole the land from each other for thousands of years, so which tribes should get it back?
Anyway, back to "Mexican ownership" (taken from Spain, taken from the Indians): Mexico only held ownership for about 15 years between when they took it from Spain and we took it from Mexico, and we have had it for almost 200 years now.
So who has the strongest claim? The USA (170 years until now), Mexico (15 years), Spain (300 years) or the many Indian tribes (length of control for each tribe unknown.)
Sad but true.
I just wonder who the fedgov will see as the enemy.....
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