The first time that I was actually in a class and competing with people that were not like me, “Mexican,” with the Gabachos (Whites), I realized that all those movies and TV series that exposed me to the mental superiority of the white men were not true. They were no better than we were. While I am not Mexican, I am an American, and I actually had to tell people that I was Mexican as my features are very Indian looking. Even the Indians thought I was an Indian. But Indians were at the bottom of the barrel in Oklahoma and greatly despised by many Okies.
Even in the late 1970s, I received a compliment, I presume, from a professor at the University of Houston, who taught microeconomics and macroeconomics. I had the highest grade in both of those classes that he taught, and he told me when we happened to meet in an elevator, “I never knew Mexicans were smart.”DAH
When I saw the new astronaut class, the first thought that came to my mind was that DEI was in action; they just assumed that white people were better at everything. Well, maybe not basketball, football, or futbal, boxing, etc. Then look at many of those programmers and engineers in some of the tech companies; their skin tends to be even darker than mine, and they come from the land of spices. I haven’t had a white doctor since the early 1980s. Where did they all go? Same thing with the dentists.
Below is an image of the astronaut class of 2025; they did throw in an Asian.
I was reading an article that led me to write this one. The article involves the rewriting of the history of Texas, in particular, to make the Gabacho the heroes and saviors of the West.
In the image below, we have a brave David Crockett fighting for his life to the end. Well, the version that the Mexicans who won the battle is that Crockett surrendered and then was executed for being a traitor. Crockett called for quarter. “A call for quarter” isn’t a standard military phrase, but likely refers to a request for mercy.”
At least seven were captured or surrendered before the final shot was fired. Each was then executed. Writing from his headquarters in Gonzales on Friday, March 11, Sam Houston informed James Fannin at Goliad that he had “little doubt theAlamo had fallen.” But then added: “After the fort was carried, seven men surrendered, and called for Santa Anna and quarter. Source
Today is National Poetry Day, so my poem to you is brief, yet true. Change the name to Trump, and the end will be the same; time erases everything.
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.