Funny How the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Doesn’t Count As History

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  1. I like the sentiment, but by the time the Spanish showed up, the Maya already had a destroyed culture. They were living in huts and their cities were basically moldering away, covered in jungle.

    Now, the Aztecs (Mexica), Texcoco, Alcohua, Mixtec, Tlacopa, Olmec, Zapotec….

    If you’re going to make an internet graphic, expect a tepuli to critique it.

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  2. The Spanish took what is now the southwest US from the natives starting in the sixteenth century, in 1821 the Mexicans took the land from the Spanish, the Americans took the land from the Mexicans in the 1840’s. So the claim to the SW US by Mexicans is bogus…that land (if it doesn’t belong to the US, which it does, we took it fair and square) either belongs to the natives or to Spain but not to Mexico. However, having said that I’d also say that ownership of California could be negotiated.

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  3. I once worked with a man whose mother was full blooded Mayan. She lived south of Mexico, I don’t recall where, other than not Panama – it was between the two. Mayans were part of the 3rd wave of immigration. What is now known as “American Indians” was part of the 4th wave, which were killing off their predecessors. His view on reparations for American Indians went something like: As soon as you get reparations from the decedents of European colonists, you can use the money to pay reparations to the decedents of the Mayans, Aztecs, etc.

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  5. History isn’t the final determinant of ownership, cause if you go back far enough NO ONE occupied the land. What determines ownership is possession and the ability and desire to retain ownership.

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