Nations and cultures are usually brought down by forces from within. It only seems to the casual observer that the nation or culture succumbed to pressures from without.
Those who might declare themselves to be “Native Texans” are not so different from those (of all stripes) who declare themselves better than the others---those “illegals” because they are here “legally.” “Legally” really--- what does that mean?
The inhabitants of this hemisphere had long been present when invaded by terrorists (the present occupiers) and in genocidal fashion almost rendered extinct. No doubt Europeans and British invaders were viewed more as terrorists and “illegals” than “gods” by those they would soon torture, kill, oppress and exploit and whose lands the invaders would comfiscate. Another view is little more than wishful thinking and full blown sugar-coated delusional. Almost as delusional as holding companies in England and Europe selling land in the New World they did not own had not seen and for which they had no documentation. Talk about illegal.
I see the “powers that be” doing the same thing in the Middle East they did here---re-creating the inhabitants in their own image. In this hemisphere the long hair of the natives was shorn. European and British (white people’s) idea of clothing replaced nudity or leather clothing. European religions forcefully replaced nature-based spirituality. The writings of the “heathens” “injuns” by another name were burned and replaced by eloquent writings telling the vanquished second class citizen that it was going to be alright because, “all men are created equal.” Two-hundred thirty four years later it’s still not the case and even less so for women.
Now invader-occupiers use artificially drawn boundaries not unlike children in a schoolyard declaring anyone on the other side of the boundary excluded. But our “leaders” weren’t and aren’t children. They were and are exploiters of the people and lands from el Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego (yes, England including Las Malvinas). The bounty of those lands was played out, the folk of the region decimated. Their only hope of sustaining their families was finding work in el norte.
It is not possible to make this up. The promoters of the “white male system” have throughout time repeated the process over and over. It is what the promoters of that system do.
The question is what would these European and British-Americans do if that were done to them? Yet we spend a considerable amount of money we don’t have to do all of the above and to enable Israelis to do the same. Here in this nation we exclude the undocumented from their native lands when they are not needed or the feeling of scarcity is predominant. This is of course humorous because there may not be money to feed the hungry or to fix our decaying infrastructure but there is always more than enough money to unilaterally and pre-emptively attack another country and to hunt for those the oligarchs find inimical to their existence.
Is what we have here so much better that we just have to foist it on everyone else? Why would the rest of the world taking a close look at who we are and what we do want to be like us? And really given our penchant for pre-emptively invading and bombing people do we really want another us out there?
Our forces of governance take an ever sharper internecine turn. That makes for a “house divided.”
I admit it is almost impossible for invader-occupiers to see or understand what they do to those they invade. These words are for those who might.
Hasta Siempre,
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