Posted on 02/06/2013 3:46:35 PM PST by Nachum
Speaking about outgoing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, President Obama reminded reporters that the family of the former U.S. Senator from Colorado was of Spanish descendent – dating back to the 16th century. “His ancestors were living here before the Mayflower set sail,” Obama said. “As he explains it — and relevant, as we are working to get immigration reform passed — his family did not cross the border, the border crossed them. And that’s why, when I needed somebody to lead Interior, I didn’t have to look very far.”
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That is interesting. My Mother’s family came from the County of Argyle too. Specifically from the Island of Colonsay.
Stuff them, they were killing and murdering Indians before we did, then we killed them in a war and won. Stay south scumbags, you lost.
Of course fifty years after it was over my ancestors, running for THEIR LIVES in Pogroms across Europe, somehow made it to the shores of America with nothing and they allegedly kissed the ground they walked on from that day to their death. I do the same, thankful, so stuff them,( see above post).
Spot on, well said, I’ve been saying this for years, the Mexican government and its’ people are some of the most racist on the planet, the darker your skin, the further north of Mexico they push you, watch Mexican television you’d think you were in Europe! America is a sieve for the corruption of Mexico, the people need to stay and change their country for the better, not run away!
Dunno ‘bout the Mayans, but killing off the human-sacrificing, cannibalistic empire of the Aztecs was a GOOD thing.
Can you imagine things if there were still “fundamentalist Aztecs” loose? We’d have liberal insisting that they were protected by the First Amendment and demanding that we respect their beliefs and culture.
Texas, on its own, after independence, did much better in protecting settlers and land developers from Comanche raiders than did the Mexicans or Spain.
They immediately began putting in place a plan to create peace and help resolve the Protestant problem.
Filipe II/III had decided to get North America underway so he came up with a plan to divide much of it up among people who could invest in the project.
You can read all about the plan in the Treaty of London 1604 ~ but the players were working it in 1598.
Scandinavian surveyors hired by Spain arrived shortly before that date to show the division between Virginia and Carolana, as well as that between Acadia and Virginia in the North. They may also have surveyed a baseline just West of the Mississippi from a point on the Texas coast all the way to Kensington MN, and placed another baseline through OK going East and West.
The Spanish presence in the Chesapeake (there to deal with pirates) shut down and some of their officers traveled to Mexico City then went North to the furthest point where there was regular water ~ with desert beyond. That was the LaLuz and Santa Fe area ~ the first Spanish permanent settlement was placed in that area, and in later times the Santa Fe trail was marked all the way to the Mississippi.
Such is the very foundation of our nation ~ men with sharp knives shooting craps in a dark alley ~ high risk type guys who would venture out in the Great American Desert and carve out workable nations for others to develop.
Bumping into America and telling others about it was one thing; carving it up for settlement was quite another. Then the deluge of the nations trampling under God's temple on Earth for 415 years!
They wore silk gowns from China!
The Mexicans, who came later, were not mestizos ~ they were pretty much grandees ~ mostly Spanish in origin. Well within the American era there were mestizos who came to the mission when it was converted to a school. They produced priests for small mexican communities throughout California.
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