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Posted on 09/16/2010 2:18:29 PM PDT by Erin Brown
In 1810, Mexico gained its independence from Spain and 200 years later, thousands of Mexican Americans flocked to the steps of the state capitol building in California to celebrate this occasion.
Wait, what? Mexico declares its independence from Spain 200 years ago, and California citizens celebrate? According to Mexican Consul General Carlos González Gutiérrez in the Sacramento Bee, celebrating the bicentennial was “an opportunity not only to celebrate the cultural identity of California’s 11 million Mexican Americans, but our partnership with California. We have been together for 200 years, and we will be together for many more.” Gutiérrez let out the famous “grito” cry from the Capitol steps at 7:58pm, the words that marked the beginning of Mexico’s 11-year war with Spain.
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“In 1810, Mexico gained its independence from Spain and 200 years later, thousands of Mexican Americans flocked to the steps of the state capitol building in California to celebrate this occasion.”
Cripes.
Yeah. The real reason is to discourage them from assimilating and feeling like Americans.
Is it Cinco de Cuatro already?
Damn, you beat me to it.
11 million? Try 30.
What partnership? I'd call it a hostile takeover.
Mexico asserted its independence of an occupied Spain fighting to regain its own independence from france. How glorious was that?
2 cheers!
Hip, hip, zzzzzz
I don’t understand why Mexicans are so proud of Mexico and their “heritage.” What is there to be proud of? Is it their propensity towards crime, their educational failures, their corruption, thier raw sewage spilling into San Diego?
I had to suffer through the coverage of this “great celebration” in front of the capital building here in Sacramento.
Why can’t these proud mexicans be proud enough to go home and fight for thier beloved country? Go fight for what you love? Don’t bring my country down so you feel like your home. Mexico is a complete basketcase. Always has been, always will be.
We called it Manifest Destiny.
Yeah, right!!!!
Independence from Spain transferred (unwillingly) to the auspices of the people of the United States of America, unfortunately. GO HOME, STAY HOME. WE DONT WANT YOU!
Mexico couldn’t hold onto any of its territory in our present day southwest because that government remained basically a highly-centralized colonial-style government for far too long.
Officials were loathe to leave Mexico City. It was the center of power and influence in Mexico, because family ‘influence’ and toadying to those in power was the only way to move up in the government. So the regions far from Mexico, like California, Texas and New Mexico’s puelblos, were deemed the equivalent of being sent to exile in Siberia. No one wanted to be sent there and those who were sent were not the finest men for the job.
Indians raiding in the north were a problem for pioneers and Mexico did nothing to protect them. Americans moving west would become Mexican citizens but were intolerant of that government’s corruption and lack of action.
The rest is history about which Mexico blithely lies.
Mexico didn’t gain its independence from Spain in 1810. That was the year that Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a priest, began the war for independence, which sputtered for 11 more years. Mexico finally gained its independence in 1821 when the Spanish commander in Mexico switched sides and joined the revolutionaries.
The early Texas settlers were allowed in mainly to serve as a buffer between the raiding parties of Indians and the Mexicans in the south, anyway. Guess the Mexicans never bargained for what happened next.
Ping!
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