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How beautiful it is to see Latinos whom Trump denigrated and dehumanized turning out in force to drive him to defeat. #HastaLaVistaBigBabyhttps://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/795005542959894528
4lbs
(6,858 posts)That food looks good.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)demigoddess
(6,642 posts)have been here longer than the U. S. has been a country. We annexed their territory, they didn't cross the border!!
erpowers
(9,350 posts)"We did not cross the border, the border crossed us".
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)ranch land in deep south Texas, the area between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. There were lots of intermarriages between Hispanic and white Texans a century + ago. There was also a wealthy (oil and ranching?) Longoria family in Laredo (border town).
Mira
(22,380 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Augiedog
(2,548 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)The Fascist Right makes a push every 70-80 years, reinforcing the thought that those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. We are all equal under the sun no matter our shade or ethnicity but some still cannot handle that.
The last time when they sought to overthrow FDR they bet on the wrong guy to lead them, General Smedley Butler, who turned them in...and soon wrote a book named "War Is A Racket".
Hekate
(90,757 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)LostOne4Ever
(9,290 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#00009d]...a wall of latinos are going to keep tRump out of the presidency!!!
Perfect! [/font]