Funding Hate: Foundations for the radical Hispanic Lobby

by Joseph Fallon; Fall 2000; published in The Social Contract

Revising history

"History" as told by supporters of LULAC, MALDEF, MEChA, and La Raza almost invariably includes not only the claim that "Hispanics" were here "first," but that "Hispanics" were established in large numbers throughout the Southwest at the time the United States annexed that territory in 1848.In fact, the Spanish Empire was unable to establish effective control over most of the land that today forms the seven States of the U.S. Southwest — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. The Indian nations — Apache, Comanche, Hopi, Navajo, Paiute, Shoshone, Ute, etc. — not only militarily defeated the Spanish attempt to invade and colonize this land, but the Apaches and Comanches counter-attacked and raided deep into what is now Mexico."

"After "identity," the next shared core belief of LULAC, MALDEF, MEChA, and La Raza is "history." What is presented as history, however, is a series of half-truths and total falsehoods to advance the "Hispanic" claim that "we were here first." A claim officially promoted by the U.S. government whose rewriting of history proves Orwell's dictum in 1984 — "Who control the presents controls the past; and who control the past controls the future.".......

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