May 22, 2025

a Brief History of Lynching Against Mexicans in the US

a Brief History of Lynching Against Mexicans in the US
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The Tuskegee Institure’s definition of lynching is as follows: There must be legal evidence that a person was killed. That person must have met death illegally. A group of three or more persons must have participated in the killing. The group must have acted under the pretext of service to justice, race or tradition. Following that, the amount of lynchings against Mexicans in the US from 1848 to 1928 is at least 548.

In this episode, Cristina tells Carmen about the history of lynchings against Mexicans in the US. This is part one of a mini series discussing this dark chapter in US history. Listen with care. In the next episode, Cristina will discuss the lynching of Josefa in California.

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This episode was edited by Bex Carlos & Alex Rogpe

Sources

https://southernspaces.org/2018/review-lynching-mexicans-texas-borderlands/
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-texas-rangers-good-guys-no-more/
Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Ken Gonzales-Day
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Munoz Martinez
Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries (Latin America Otherwise)
Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greaser_Act#:~:text=The%20original%20title%20of%20the,potential%20avenues%20of%20employment%20for
https://bajaarizonahistory.org/filibuster-on-the-sonoita/

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Hi, everyone. This is Carmen and Christina and this is

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The Studas Unknown, a podcast where we talk about Latin

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American history. Sometimes it's horrible and it deals with heavy

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topics like racism, corruption, at genocide. But more than that,

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it's also by resistance, power and community. Christina, what are

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we talking about today today? Is depressing? It's very depressing. Wow,

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And there is no nothing uplifting about this episode. So really,

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I don't think so. After I finished my notes, I

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don't think so strength based. I'll try to find something. Okay,

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I'm probably gonna forget that I said that, but yeah,

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go on. So we didn't learn this in school, and

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this is a line that we say a little too much.

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We should have put that in the Bengo card. Yeah,

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you're right, because yeah, it comes up a little too much.

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And I can speak to our experience in Modesto Modesta,

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California High school history class. Right, they didn't talk about

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what I'm going to talk about today when it pertains

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to Mexicans, but they did talk about it when it

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pertains to black people. Because there's just some things that

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cannot simply be ignored, Like they cannot not talk about

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the enslavement of black people in history. They can't skip

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Jim Crow even though they try, and we get like

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the MENI version of it, right, and then also like

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mom violence and lynchings of black people, right, it's not

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taught in detail, but we know it happened. Yeah, maybe

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some places is not taught anymore.

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I don't know.

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I don't know what the situation. I was gonna say.

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In some places they're teaching that enslaved people like being enslaved,

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so right, So if that's the case, they're probably skipping

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over lynchings. But we you and I, we did learn

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about lynchings, especially because you learn about it in the

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frame of fiction through To Kill a Mockingbird. Yeah, because

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that's a book everyone has to read. I think fiction

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is important though, because yeah, we do learn a lot

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of things about well historical fiction through do that. And

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just because it's fiction doesn't mean that it didn't happened

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or things like that didn't happen. I mean not In

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some places you only learn the fiction version of it

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without learning yeah, this really did happen to people. And

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also because the ticular Mockybird to me also is very

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like white savior point of view.

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From the Lawyer.

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That's true, but I think it's still important book to teach, right,

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we still need Yeah, that that part is true in

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English classes, especially like the way they frame it and

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the discussions you have when you read and the essays

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you write, Yeah about it. It's not just like reading it,

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you know. I think there's like a lot to learn

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from there. It'd be nice to also address it. And

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this is too asking too much, but to also address

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it in a history class at the same time. Yeah,

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that you're reading, but that's too much. That's too much.

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And that's really the extent of learning about lynching in

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the United States unless you go to higher education, write,

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or you seek it out yourself later. Yeah, right, like

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where we did for this episode. Yeah, the subject of

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lynching in the un is only discussed in the concept

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of black people, black Americans. But we don't need to

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say that. The amount of lyncians they face is obscene, like, right,

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it's insane and horrible and horrific. Almost everything relating to

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race is taught in a black and white like, right,

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and everyone else is it kind of ignored? That's very true, right, Yeah,

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And that applies to lynchings too, because in the United States.

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Indigenous people, Mexicans, Asians, and even Irish people until they

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were considered considered white were all lynched for different reasons.

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But the group most targeted after black people with lynchings

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were Mexicans or just people with Hispanic lassings because during

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this time period, even though it wasn't just Mexicans, everyone

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was considered to Mexican. Right, even now they still try

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to do that, so, right, they still do that. Yeah,

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And that's what today's topic is, the history of lynchings

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of Mexicans in the US. And over the next two

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or three episodes, well, the next one I want to

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go into specific cases of lynchings, and then the one

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after that, I want to focus on Texas specifically because

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that place was an insane Yeah, I mean even the

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whole creation of Texas a state in itself, right, like

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I think that it, yeah, lends itself to not lend

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itself it It makes sense that the most lynchings of

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Mexicans happened there to me, right, and so yeah, in

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this episode, I want to set up the context of

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how Mexicans the situation they were living in in California,

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and I guess not just California, but mostly California, and

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the context in which these lynchings were happening, Like what

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was going on in that lit up to this, the

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history of you know, this timeframe. I am skipping over though,

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the violence of the Spanish towards indigenous people. That's another

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topic right now, Like it's Mexicans facing this violence from

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Anglo settlers, but we know there was a lot of

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violence also from the Spanish toward indigenous people, but that

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were not you know, going over that today, focusing on that. Yeah, today,

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mostly California, though I'm talking a little bit about other places.

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Texas is going to have its own episode because I

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can't talk about lynchings in Texas without talking about a

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group responsible for hundreds of lynchings in Texas that were

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then considered legal lynchings and weren't counted as lynchings, the

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Texas Rangers. I was going to guess, and yeah, that's

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going to be its own episode. But the number of

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lynchings on Mexicans in the US is contested. One of

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the books I read for research Forgotten Dead mob violence

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against Mexicans in the United States offers the following numbers

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for the years eighteen forty eight to nineteen twenty eight,

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five hundred forty eight lynchings. Wow, eighteen forty eight to

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when eighteen forty eight to nineteen twenty eight eighty years. Yeah,

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When you expand the definition of vigilante justice to include

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like what would have been legal lynchings like those by

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the Texas Rangers Bush were considered legal, that number five

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hundred forty eight goes up to several thousands, because that's

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how many Mexicans the Texas Rangers were killing legally, and

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they're trying to bring that back, y'all. One could argue

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that police shootings are modern day lynchings of black people

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and Mexicans or Latino people, and one would be correct

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in saying that. So besides these modern day you know, lynchings,

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they're also trying to bring back like vigilante justice or whatever. Like, right,

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didn't they just some state passed like a thing where

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they're adding on like militia groups to act as border patrol. Yeah,

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I forgot which state, but yeah, pro Texes is probably

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Texas and Arizona probably both. Yeah, And when you lump

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in indigenous people with Mexicans, that number grows even more

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because that happened too, especially during the Yaqui Wars, which

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the Yaqui people face state violence by both the US

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government and the Mexican government. Man, and they're here today,

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and that is resistance. Yes, thank you. But the Yaki Wars,

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that's going to be a topic for another day. I

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already added it to our list and one of the

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books I use it. All of the sources are listed

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in the show notes. But one of the books I

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use does have a toll chapter on the Yankey Wars,

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and we did talk a little bit about them in

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the Terre Saura episode as well. Okay, but before talking

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about the mass lynchings of Mexicans in the US, I

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need to set up some context.

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First.

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Let's define lynching by using the Tuskegee Institute's definition, because

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it's the most accepted one. So there must be legal

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evidence that a person was killed. That person must have

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met death illegally. A group of three or more persons

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must have participated in the killing. The group must have

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acted under the pretext of service to justice, race, or tradition.

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That part is the most like essential partner. There So,

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the first documented use of the term lynching in the

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US was known as Lynch's Law, which happened in seventeen

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eighty in Virginia. General Charles Lynch and his commanders used

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Lynch Law to put an end to the Tory conspiracy,

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which I didn't know this was the thing. Tories were

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British sympathizers during the American Revolution. Oh you knew that. Yeah,

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I don't remember how, but yeah, they rolled through Chestnut

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Hill Gathering imprisoning the British sympathizers, the Tories, and one

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of the more outspoken British sympathizers, John Griffith. John wentn'

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shut up about Britain and loving them. He wasn't lynched

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in the sense of like being hung up to die,

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but in the sense of a public lashing where people

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came out to watch. And that's what a Lynch Law was, like,

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punishing someone in public like that. Okay, but then this

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was expanded to me just the use of military law

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by non military personnel, so regular ass people taking justice

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into their own hands. And when we think of lynching,

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because of the US education system, the South is the

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thing that comes to mind for people because yeah, it

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was absolutely brutal for black people. There's no denying that.

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From eighteen eighty two to nineteen sixty eight. They do,

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documented number of lynchings towards black people in the US

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is four seven hundred forty three wow, according to the

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n double ACP, while the Equal Justice Initiative reports four

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eighty four and just twelve Southern states from eighteen seventy

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seven to nineteen fifty. Well, that's already more. But historians

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all agree, will like credible historians all agree that this

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number is like low balling it, yeah, because that's what's documented, right,

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and the real number is probably way higher. Those are

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all lynchings, all lynchings in the US. And then seventy

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five percent of that number is all black victims of lynching. Wow, lynchings.

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And when it came to trying to find the number

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of Mexican victims of lynching, that's a little trickier because

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in some places they only documented black and white people. Again,

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like that black and white thing where they don't know

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nobody else mattered in between. In these years, other times

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Mexicans were counted as white because legally, by law, Mexicans

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were white. This was since the age and forty a

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Treaty of Guago, the Mexicans who were supposed to count

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as white, they were supposed to receive citizenship, but that

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didn't matter to the Anglos killing them because they were Mexican, right, Like,

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that didn't matter. So that was a little difficult, you know,

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keeping track of the Mexicans who were lynched, because sometimes

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they weren't counted as Mexican. Some people were just listed

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as other. The people who were most well documented after

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black people were probably Chinese people because they were the

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easiest to identify for the people doing the lynchings. Just

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because the treaty said, you know, Mexicans in these states

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are US citizens that are considered white, it didn't mean

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anything to the Anglos, the Anglo settlers, which is insane

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to me because like I don't I feel like I

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don't need to say this, but I'm going to any way.

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Like they were the people moving to these places where

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people were already living California, Texas, to Mexico, Arizona, and

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they they arrived at these places and like just talked

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matt shit about everyone who was already there. You know,

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they got to places like Texas immediately were like, eh,

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who are these dirty greasers who were here? They don't

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deserve with the same rights we do. It's like, bitch,

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who are you?

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Exactly?

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And then like in Texas they created a version of

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Jim Crow informally known as Huan Crow. Wow, I didn't

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know that me neither. From eighteen ninety three to nineteen

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oh five, Texas passed English only laws that segregated Mexicans

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from public places like school, stores and pools, which I

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did know that well that yeah, I didn't know. They

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informally called it quan kuan pro. I had no idiculous

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How long have they been using a kuan as a

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dumb ass fucking little like insul for everything since they

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fucking got to you know what? This shows how unfunny

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they are. They've been using the same fucking joke since

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what eighteen hundred, We'll see, yeah they late eighteen hundreds. Dumb, unoriginal, bitch,

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unoriginal and unfunny. And yeah, this wasn't only in Texas.

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Everywhere they were arriving as manifestors of destiny or whatever

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the fun They brought this system of beliefs with them

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And yeah, manifest destiny and the gold Rush is what

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was bringing white people west. They like truly truly believed

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it was a god given right, Yeah, they go west.

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And the insane part is that we, like again, in

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the US school system, we learn about manifest destiny and

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how amazing it was supposedly. Dude, I was just gonna say,

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we spent so much fucking time learning about fucking manifest destiny,

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as if it didn't destroy the environment, as if it

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wasn't the enacting or I don't know how you would say,

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but as if it wasn't the primary leading cause of genocide,

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like this is ridiculous, like and they didn't at all,

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as if manifest destiny wasn't what killed all of the buffalos, right,

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destroying nature, destroying everything in its path for what gold capitalism, yeap, domination, yeah, colonialism. Yeah,

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they brought themselves to these lands that were already someone else's,

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and they brought their views with them, also their views

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of justice, which was very different than everyone else's, very uh, punitive,

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backwards ass bullshit and violent violent h and yeah, I

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mean it's the tradition of violence that they've always had,

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that they from the inception of this fucking country, the

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right to conquer blah blah blah, so on and on.

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So they headed west, and yeah, for some reason, They

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thought by them heading west, that Natives and Mexicans would

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vanish once they arrived. They thought that the world was

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theirs and nobody was there, and if they were, they

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were akin to animals, you know, in their view, Yes, exactly,

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because that brings me to my next literally my next

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point in my notes. Okay, go on. When they arrived,

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they were like, who are these half breeds, these mongrel Mexicans,

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these savage Indians, these half civilized black men. That's how

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they refer to Spanish people, half civilized, Like not even

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the Spanish would properly picked.

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Not even the Spanish. Europeans were spared.

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They're worse than the Spiolis. Yeah. Yeah, They literally wrote,

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the Indian and white races in California must fade away.

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With the secession of the former Mexican states during the

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Mexican or after the Mexican American War, the you know

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that came with the Treaty of Guadalupealgo and the states

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these states now belonged to the US. They that belief

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that it was a god given right to head to

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these new states. It grew and massively, especially when gold

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was discovered, and they were like, oh, these are barren

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wastelands free for the taking, like no, bitch, They weren't. No.

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They were shocked to see natives like indigenous people, Mexicans

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and also Chilenos, Peruanos and Chinese people. They were all

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they were already there. And it's no surprise that as

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more Anglos were arriving, violence towards the other groups only

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grew and grew and grew and grew. The most violent

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years for Mexicans in these areas were eighteen fifty, which

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coincides with the gold Rush eighteen seventy, and nineteen ten

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nineteen ten coincidence with the Mexican Revolution eighteen seventy and

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monestly not sure about you, who knows what that coincides

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with it. We're probably gonna find out when we're doing

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research or something else. You're gonna be like, oh, that

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was that, Oh that's what? Yeah, for real. And as

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they started arriving in California, they didn't understand the local language,

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which was Spanish. They only got more violent because they

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didn't know what was going on. And then they also

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didn't believe that the current justice system that the Spanish

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had set up Spanish law, it didn't apply to them

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like course everywhere they go. Their answer that Anglo's answer

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to crime was death, any crime, death, you steal something dead,

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you look at that woman dead like they literally that's

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their answer to everything, straight to death, exactly. And this

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is why to this day they're so pro death penalty.

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Oh yeah. White Evangelicals are the group of people that

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believe the most in death penalty, while back in their

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ancestral land of England, they didn't even kill people over

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theft anymore. They left England but kept all the conservative,

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puritan violent ways. Yeah, yeah, but that's.

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Why they left.

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No, you're right, because it was impurison enough and you know, yeah,

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and then they came over here with that shit and

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I were and we're still suffering, yeah seriously. And yeah,

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the Anglos justified hanging people for stealing horses, cattle, anything, anything.

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And they claimed that the current just a system was

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not efficient and that's why they had to kill people

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by hanging them on trees for fun. And they want

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to still do that now, oh yeah. And you know,

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part of that was a little true because of how

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many Anglos were arriving, the existing court system was too

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small for the amount of people arriving I see, it

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was made for the people who were already there, So

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it was their fault in whatever way you look at it,

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it was their fault. Yes, it wasn't ready for the

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hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Anglos arriving during the

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gold Rush. And yeah, they also believed. The Anglo believed

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that these existing courts were favoral to Mexicans and let

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them get away with too much. And that's why they

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had to take matters into their own hands. Always, always

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with their little victim mentality. Yeah, they accused other people

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of having but every accusation is a what is that word? Confession? Yes,

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but guess what what records of the time show that

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existing courts were more likely to punish Quricans than severely

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punish them severely when compared to the Anglos. Of course,

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of course, Yeah, like that's not surprising at all. Please

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you always they want to make up their little persecution. Yeah,

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it's all fake always, Oh my god, I'm so matter

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ready you.

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Even sat up.

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Yeah, And before the gold Rush, California was not insanely

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super populated, like there was the indigenous people there, right,

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but Spanish colonization was brutal and the number of indigenous

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people decreased by the thousands over the years, and Mexicans

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arriving to California, well Spanish, they were not Mexican, they

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were Spanish. It wasn't a lot, It wasn't a huge migration.

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When word of gold spread though, Mexicans they were the

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first to rite for the gold rush, not white people,

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which is what we learned when we learn about this

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kind of shit in California history, when we learn about

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the forty nine ers, right, like they tell us that

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white people were the first till arrived, but no Mexicans

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were because many of them already had family in the area. Right.

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In fact, the biggest group to migrate from Mexico was

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people from Sonora, really m and they even had like

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you know, chinatowns. They had Sonora towns, that's what they

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call the Mexican part of California, So noa towns. And

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sometimes when people were lynched and documented like what race

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quote unquote race, they were instead of saying Mexican, it

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says Sonorian. Oh wow. Yeah. Also a lot of these

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people were also just called Californios. Okay, yeah, that I knew, Yeah,

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Californios Sonorians. And then I legistrat out of Mexican and

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so between eighteen forty eight and eighteen fifty two, twenty

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five thousand Mexicans arrived. Along with them, there was people

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from Chile and Peru. They were the first miners Mexicans, Chilenos,

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and Peruvians. Actually, I think I read about this somewhere,

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better remember where or listened to something about. I forgot

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if I did. And yeah, these three groups and Chinese

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people as well, they had way more experience mining for

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gold than the white people when they arrived, and the

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superior skills of these Latino men made the whites very angry.

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They were so jealous, they were so mad, they were

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rabbit at the mouth of their jealousy.

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Literally.

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One Chilean gold miner named Ramon Hill Navarro and his

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journal wrote that they got red with anger because these

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Latino miners were way better than them. The whites had

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to use mob violence to drive them out and keep

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all the minds to themselves because it was a skill issue,

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of course, yeah, of course, but it wasn't just mob violence.

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They also used laws to make this happen. Akin to now,

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with their little outbursts, emotional outbursts about DEI and being

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discriminated against quote for being white. Yeah, there's the same,

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the same as the A three hundreds. Oh my god,

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they haven't changed. They've always been. Little bitch is dis

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emotional and jealous read with a good violent. The Foreign

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Miners Tax was passed on April thirteenth, eighteen fifty and

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this made non American born miners and made them pay

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twenty dollars a month to remain in the gold field

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or gold mines. But the more, like the dumbest fucking

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part to me is that legally Mexicans were citizens. Yeah,

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but because they weren't American born, they had to pay.

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And they were they had been in these places way

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longer than these people and they quote American born. Yeah,

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but they had to pay twenty dollars a month, which

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was a lot. That's what I'm saying, Like even now,

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like they want to not just now, but they've always

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like wanted to depoor Mexicans and Latinos from the United States.

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Yet Latinos are basically indigenous to the Americas and they

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are from Europe, right, Yeah, It's like what the fuck, dude,

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And then they're not even the original colonizers of these lands.

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It's the Spinyard. They were the second or third. Shut

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the fuck up first for the French, then the Spaniards

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in different areas, So yeah, shut the fuck up, and yeah,

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this foreign miners tax was purposely designed to drive Mexicans.

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And I say Mexicans, but this included the Chilenos Peruanos.

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They were all lumped in US Mexican so it was

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purposely designed to drive them out. And it's not a

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coincidence that the person who introduced the bill, Thomas Jefferson Green,

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hated Mexicans. He was known to say things like quote,

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I can maintain a better stomach at the killing of

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a Mexican than at the crushing of a body lice.

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But the fuck and this bitch.

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Was one who made this law. Oh my god. By

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October of the same year that the foreign tax law

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was passed, Mexicans and Chilean's they left the mines. They

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were all gone by October, either because of the tax

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itself or at the violence faced when the whites came

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to collect that tax. In totally town, a Mexican was

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shot by tax collectors when he resisted paying the monthly fee.

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And this was common. This was a common thing, and

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this tax legally gave Anglos a reason to justify the

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lynching of Mexicans. Oh, they're not paying their tax, that

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means we can kill them. And this coincides with the

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rise of lynchings in eighteen fifty as well, along with

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just the all the people arriving for gold. When that

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tax wasn't enough to drive the foreign miners away, they

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simply just started kicking them out of mining towns. They

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would put up signs saying Chilean's Signorians, Peruvians, and Mexicans

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don't have rights to work in the mines, and they

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would give them a twenty four hour notice to leave,

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and anyone who didn't leave in that twenty four hour

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notice would then be driven away by the force of arms.

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In a town called sorry, the name of this town

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is fucking insane. In a town called Haying Town. Oh

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my god, if we were recording the waymen mouth's just drump.

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Yeah.

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In a town called Placerville, California, they put up signs Plasterville.

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Oh that's how you say that, Okay, Hangtown is now Plasterville, California. Wow.

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And they're still so racist there. Whereas Plasterville Plasterville is okay,

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so the central valley and then when you go right

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north is the bury and right but then like when

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you go usually you know it's bad directions, but like

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it's like west or east. It's on the sides. Mountain

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towns that are on the sides, oh sides, And yeah,

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all of those are like gold rush towns and a

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lot of them still have like their historic buildings and stuff,

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and they're still so racist. Yeah, and there's a reason. Wow,

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I can't believe Plasterville. I'm gonna next time I go

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to work with the kids. You guys know that Pasterville

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used to be called Hangtown. Wow, I am shocked. I

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did not know that. Yeah I saw that. I was like,

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what the fuck? What the wow? I'm sure like Orville

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probably is hell of crazy, has crazy lunching history as well.

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It's like with those like little mountain towns, all the

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the mining towns. Yeah, my god, Hangtown. Now Plasterville, California.

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They signs that any non citizen that refused to leave

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within twenty four hours would be met with violins. And

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Antonio Coronell who would go back and forth. He was

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born in Mexico City, but he became a naturalized citizen

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in eighteen thirty four. He arrived in Hayingtown as this

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was being enforced. He normally stayed in La and he

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would just go, you know, He's like, oh, maybe I'll

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go get some gold, and he would go and come

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back make money. Right. He was used to this, And

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so as he was arriving in Hayktown, a Spanish man

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was being arrested for supposedly for stealing but who knows

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if that's even true, probably not for stealing a tiny

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amount of gold. Antonio Coronell offered to pay more than

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what this man stole for him to be free, for

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them to let him go. But the group was like no,

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because it wasn't about the money. They just wanted to

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kill him. They had blood on there. Yeah, they were bloodthirsty,

450
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fucking monsters. I couldn't think of how to finished that.

451
00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:54.160
Sid It was like, oh, Christian, I'll figure it out.

452
00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:57.359
So the group refused, and they announced that anyone who

453
00:24:57.359 --> 00:25:00.400
intervened would be killed. They put the Spanish man in

454
00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:03.519
a cart, took an over to an oak tree where

455
00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:06.079
they hung him. Oh my god. And they seen this

456
00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:08.799
made Antonio, who was used to going back and forth

457
00:25:09.079 --> 00:25:11.920
took mine gold. He was like, nope, not anymore. He

458
00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:14.559
went back to La, stayed in La. He quit mining

459
00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:17.000
for gold after that, and that's what they wanted. Wow.

460
00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:22.759
And things like that occurrence in Hangtown aka Plasterville were

461
00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:25.799
so common that there's even a famous poem of the time,

462
00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:30.480
and it's called the Great Greaser Extermination Meeting. It was

463
00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:34.279
a satirical poem. But these things, okay, that was my question.

464
00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:36.240
I'm like, okay, who was this ram by? What was

465
00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:38.599
their meaning? But these things were happening. Okay, yeah, I

466
00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:41.000
see okay, and so Nora, oh sorry, this this is

467
00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:44.119
the poem in Sonora one hot and sold tree day.

468
00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:47.359
Many people had gathered together. They were bound to drive

469
00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:49.960
the greasers away, and they cared not a damn for

470
00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:53.200
the weather. And I hope coming Folds will take warning

471
00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:56.640
and choose if they would, their property saved some American

472
00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:59.680
place to be born in. Wow. Yeah, sorry, why did

473
00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:00.279
there me?

474
00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:01.720
That poem?

475
00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:04.799
Even though it's satire, reminds me of the current stupid

476
00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:09.680
christy bitch asz gnoam commercials or propaganda. If you come here,

477
00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:13.000
we will find you. Like doesn't it sound like that?

478
00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:13.920
It does? It?

479
00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:16.640
Does. And you know that's the fucking infuriating, sad part

480
00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:19.279
of all this. These times are precedented, and like the

481
00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:21.839
fuck what you say? These are presidented times, these are

482
00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:26.079
the beginning times. We've come full circle. We were always there, actually,

483
00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:29.000
we never left. It's always an infinity loop with them.

484
00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:32.000
As long as we're here, yeah, in the US and

485
00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:34.279
they're here, it's going to be this infinite loop of

486
00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:38.200
like xenophobic racist shit always. Yeah. I don't know what

487
00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:39.880
it's going to take to change. And I know that's

488
00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:42.319
like very depressing to say. And that's not all white people,

489
00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:44.960
right have shot gon all white people of course, and

490
00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:47.759
that goes without saying obviously, But the ones that we're

491
00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:51.200
talking about, they're still here. They pass on these beliefs. Yeah,

492
00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:53.759
and it takes a lot to break that cycle. I'm

493
00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:57.880
still stuck on Haying Town, yeah, being Plasterville today. Yeah,

494
00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:06.920
that's fucking crazy. So in Mariposida, after growing tensions between

495
00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:10.039
Mexicans and Anglos increased, they was growing and it grew

496
00:27:10.079 --> 00:27:13.000
and grew. Right eighteen fifty two, a mob of two

497
00:27:13.119 --> 00:27:16.240
hundred white men formed and when they were done with

498
00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:19.200
their shit, with their violent shit, forty Mexicans were killed.

499
00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:22.920
Oh my god, they were remaining Mexicans. They all left

500
00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:25.880
after this. This type of violence on the part of

501
00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:30.160
anglos so common. It was completely normal and valid to

502
00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.960
punish all Mexicans for the crime of one. And this

503
00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:36.960
could never be the other way around Mexicans. They weren't

504
00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:39.839
even allowed to testifying court against the white person. And

505
00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:42.240
that's even if their claim went to court in the

506
00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:46.200
first place. And again, Mexicans were legally white. Yeah, so

507
00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:50.880
Ranchetia was a mostly Spanish speaking mining town, at least

508
00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:54.920
until all the whites started arriving. This Dranchedia no longer exists,

509
00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:57.880
but it is two miles away, or it was two

510
00:27:57.880 --> 00:28:01.799
miles away from dry Town in I'mador County today, so

511
00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:05.720
same areas and bandits were super common. I'm not discounting

512
00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:07.839
that they were a thing. They weren't always Mexican either,

513
00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:09.799
but like the term Mexican bandit is the one that

514
00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:13.519
stuck the most. And so a group of bandits that

515
00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:15.920
did happen to be mostly Mexican this time, or so

516
00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:19.079
they say, I don't know, I don't know anymore. But

517
00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:23.000
on August sixth, nineteen fifty five, a group of six

518
00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:26.319
to ten Mexican men, one Anglo man and one black

519
00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:31.160
man rolled through Dranchittia. They robbed the town store and hotel.

520
00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:33.480
And by the time they were done, they had killed

521
00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:35.799
six people in the process of this robbery.

522
00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:36.519
Then they left.

523
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:39.920
They were on their way when the next town over, Jackson,

524
00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:43.720
heard what happened at Ranchetia. They stormed the small town

525
00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:47.400
with a group of one five hundred angry allows. They

526
00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:50.799
rounded up thirty six Mexicans in a makeshift prison, and

527
00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:52.640
they wanted to hang all of them. But then they

528
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:55.839
formed some sort of committee, a Lynchin committee, if you will.

529
00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:59.359
They came to the conclusion, not only three of these

530
00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:02.920
thirty six men should be hanged, hung whatever lynched only

531
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:05.599
how many of them? Three out of the thirty six, okay,

532
00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:07.559
And how are they going to pick these three men? Well,

533
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:09.559
let me tell you that one of them was convicted

534
00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:13.279
on the alleged testimony of a man named Jim Johnson,

535
00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:16.440
who heard this man say Viva Mexico during the robbery.

536
00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:20.000
Why would he say Mexico during a robbery?

537
00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:22.480
And then he was like doing the little Mexican yell.

538
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:25.359
Oh my god. They were stereotyping. I'm not gonna do it.

539
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:32.559
I can't channeling my inner Speedy Gonzalesce.

540
00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:33.160
That's why I have a.

541
00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:38.319
Problem with Speedy Gonzalace. No exactly, we're thinking of I

542
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:40.640
just I just said that's why I have a problem

543
00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:41.000
with him.

544
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:41.559
No.

545
00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:43.960
Actually I loved him as a kid, but I think

546
00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:46.759
as an adult. You can see now knowing this shit

547
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:50.000
that we're talking about today, there isn't You can see

548
00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:51.480
that there really is an issue. And it's not that

549
00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:54.400
we're being cry babies. It's like, no, but understand where

550
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:57.440
it comes from. Right. So, yeah, but I didn't like him.

551
00:29:57.480 --> 00:29:59.880
I'm not gonna lie, who's your favorite Lettunes character? No,

552
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:02.480
Hans was my favorite. He was my second favorite. Yeah,

553
00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:09.000
it was your second favorite. So they hung these three men,

554
00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:11.759
but the mob was still not happy. Oh my god, No,

555
00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:13.559
they weren't happy. That wasn't enough. So I was gonna ask,

556
00:30:13.880 --> 00:30:16.160
didn't you say that the bandits left town?

557
00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:18.480
This is none of these men are the bandits.

558
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:23.359
No, So once these three men were again, they weren't

559
00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:26.599
even the ones who did the robbery, but three men

560
00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:29.279
were lynched. The mob was still unhappy. They ordered all

561
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:32.960
Mexicans and Ranchedia to leave before seven pm that same night.

562
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:36.359
Whoever didn't leave, they just went burning every Mexican house

563
00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:40.519
in Rancheria. Then they murdered Mexicans that were still running away,

564
00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:43.119
who were still trying to flee. My god, so they

565
00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:45.359
said to lay by seven pm. Then they killed them

566
00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:49.359
as they ran away. Then the next nearby town felt

567
00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:52.440
inspired and proceeded to do the same thing. They ordered

568
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:55.559
all Mexicans to leave, and whoever didn't leave they killed.

569
00:30:55.880 --> 00:31:01.000
Soon Sutter Creek, Dry Town, Sonora, a Mexican called Salvada

570
00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:04.079
all did the same. They went to these places, ordered

571
00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:08.160
Mexicans to leave, burn destroyed every Mexican house that was there.

572
00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:13.960
And over the next several weeks after Ranchetia, Mexicans all

573
00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:17.920
over this area were being killed. Wow, that is so disgusting.

574
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:20.839
And we didn't even know this shit happened, like until

575
00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:23.319
I looked it up reading all this, this is what

576
00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:26.440
the Yeah, the forty nine ers, the gold miners, right,

577
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:27.359
that's what they call themselves.

578
00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:28.640
That's what this is who they were.

579
00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:33.160
The San Francisco newspaper Alta, California even put out a

580
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.000
headline that read the work of revenge going on Mexicans

581
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:41.119
and Chileans being shot down like coyotes. Another newspaper wrote

582
00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:44.480
that it was a war of extermination against Mexicans, and

583
00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:46.960
yes it was. There has never been an official number

584
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:49.920
provided for the number of Mexicans killed after the nineteen

585
00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:52.200
fifty five Ranchetia raid, but it was probably a lot,

586
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.599
I'm sure. And then newspapers were printed with the headlines

587
00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:02.359
defending the vigilantes. Of course, yeah, the media to standardize. Yeah,

588
00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:07.039
the visually defend the outright cold blooded murder of Mexicans

589
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:11.359
and Chileans. Wow. Wow. And they said that this group

590
00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:13.519
had their right to take law into their own hands

591
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:16.839
and a duty to defend themselves, defend themselves from people

592
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:20.000
just doing their doing nothing, defend themselves from a place

593
00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:23.680
they went into attack, defend themselves from what that is ridiculous.

594
00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:26.079
That is so fucking ridiculous. Oh, my fucking god. And

595
00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:29.680
this again a very very common occurrence, and we don't

596
00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:31.920
even have official numbers of how many people were killed

597
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:36.720
during this. Wow. And Anglo miners resented and hated Mexican miners,

598
00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:39.119
and they used mob violence and laws to drive them out.

599
00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:41.599
Like you know, we talked about the foreign Minor tax

600
00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:44.400
law and all you know the things they just mentioned.

601
00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:47.079
But another law, paired up with the Foreign Minor Tax Law,

602
00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:49.960
was also used to drive Mexicans out of places again,

603
00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:51.880
places that they had been in longer than these newly

604
00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:54.559
arrived white miners. Again, I'm sick of this. I'm so

605
00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:57.680
sick of this. And this was the Anti Vagrancy Act

606
00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:03.079
of eighteen fifty five. This is hwang cro No, just kidding, No,

607
00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:06.279
it is do you know what the other name for this,

608
00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:10.480
the Greaser Act? This is the Greaser Act? Oh, I

609
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:13.240
wonder Okay, A long time ago I bought this book

610
00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:14.920
and I never finished it, and I've been meaning to

611
00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:18.880
finish it. It's called something greaser. They call this greasers

612
00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:20.720
or something like that. That has been on my list

613
00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:22.599
to read. And I want to say what I think

614
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:24.079
Maybe this is where I read all of this and

615
00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:26.160
why I kind of know it. This is what one hundred

616
00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:28.960
percent makes so much sense if that's where you read it. Yeah, yeah,

617
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:33.039
I think so so the first purpose of the greeceer

618
00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:37.039
Act was to punish vagrants, vagabonds, and dangerous and suspicious persons,

619
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:41.400
and a similar law targeting indigenous people was passed in

620
00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:44.480
eighteen fifty This one was called an Act for the

621
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:47.039
Government and Protection of Indians. And when you hear it

622
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:48.920
it sounds like a good thing, But no, these never

623
00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:53.519
are my God, of course not so. This first line

624
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:56.680
eighteen fifty was used to facilitate the removal of Natives

625
00:33:56.720 --> 00:34:01.759
from their lands and indentury native Native children to whites.

626
00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:06.279
The Act for the Government and Protection of Indians was

627
00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:09.800
used to facilitate the removal of Natives from their lands

628
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:13.320
and indenturing Native children to whites.

629
00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:14.239
Like what the fuck?

630
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:18.519
And the Anti Vagrancy Act eighteen fifty five aka the

631
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:21.800
Greaser Act was like an extension of this first eighteen

632
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:24.920
fifty Act, but to be applied to Mexicans. And it

633
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:28.559
created a protocol for disarming greasers, that's what they said.

634
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:32.880
It created severe consequences for second convictions. It laid out

635
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:37.280
potential avenues of employment for vagrants, meaning forcing them to work.

636
00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:41.159
It defined a vagrant as all those who don't have employment,

637
00:34:41.239 --> 00:34:45.360
including sex workers and drunkards, and it called for incarcerating

638
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:48.639
them for up to ninety days. And this ninety day

639
00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:53.599
sentence included hard labor and Section two identified who. This

640
00:34:53.639 --> 00:34:58.599
applied to vagrant, vagabond whatever, all persons who are commonly

641
00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:02.000
known as greasers or the issue of Spanish and Indian

642
00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:05.320
blood who go armed and are not peaceable or quiet

643
00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:09.119
persons so allowed and rowdy. Mexican like my god, and

644
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:11.280
I have used this term twice, but I haven't like

645
00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:13.519
really defined it. I feel like some of us know,

646
00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:16.400
but maybe not all of us, but greecer. Greecer was

647
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:20.039
a derogatory term to refer to Mexican and Mexican Americans.

648
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:22.800
They didn't separate Mexican and Mexicans and Americans back then.

649
00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:24.960
They were one and the same. But it was also

650
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:27.559
really for all Latin Americans because again I've said people

651
00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:29.840
from Chilean but were all also in this area at

652
00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:31.880
the time, but all of them were greasers. Everyone was

653
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:36.159
Mexican to them. And use of the word greaser is

654
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:39.360
recorded as early as eighteen forty six and as late

655
00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:42.760
as the nineteen seventies, and back when it was first around,

656
00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:46.840
it was equal to the N word for Mexicans. That's

657
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:48.679
what this book talks about, and actually one of the

658
00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:50.360
chapters straight up as the N word. I don't know

659
00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:53.239
so did my book actually me see it's a chapter

660
00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:54.440
chapter two.

661
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:56.480
N word are word?

662
00:35:56.840 --> 00:35:57.639
Sorry, I don't know.

663
00:35:58.000 --> 00:35:59.360
I don't want to make you say it. Huh.

664
00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:02.280
Red skins well like red because that's a slur as well.

665
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:05.199
Although it was a name for a sports team. This

666
00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:09.079
says n word redskins and Greaser's they kind of mixed

667
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:11.840
bloods and a white racial stain. Okay, I remember I

668
00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:13.960
read this chapter and they compare like a cast, so

669
00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:16.880
that makes sense we should read that. Yeah, well me,

670
00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:21.880
I haven't. The origins of Greaser are unknown. There's different theories.

671
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.840
Some say it came from the cool, shiny skin and

672
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:28.320
hair of the darkest Mexicans. Others say it came from

673
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:31.360
greasy Mexican food, which doesn't make sense because the foods

674
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:34.320
eaten by Mexicans and the Frontier were really just Dorthias

675
00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:37.079
beans and roasted meat, which is not greasy, right. And

676
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:39.280
if it's from the shiny hair, they're just jealous. They

677
00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:43.119
are they are, I mean shiny skin like, yeah, because

678
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:46.639
we glow in the sun. Jealous jealous yeah. Others say

679
00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:49.519
that it's from the practice of Mexican laborers in the

680
00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:52.960
Southwest greasing their bags to make it easier to load

681
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:55.840
and unload their cargo. I hadn't heard that one. I

682
00:36:55.880 --> 00:36:58.239
don't think I like said. Remember, I hadn't heard that

683
00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:00.440
one either of the other two I had. The following

684
00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:03.800
is a quote from The Atlantic Monthly from eighteen ninety nine.

685
00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:05.599
It's gonna piss me off, isn't it?

686
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:06.039
Oh?

687
00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:10.000
Yeah? Sorry? No, actually quote The Mestiso the Greaser is

688
00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:14.639
the half blood offspring of the marriage of antiquity with modernity.

689
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:19.440
Time cannot take from him the unmistakable impress of old Spain,

690
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:24.199
but his Spanish appearance is not his dominant characteristic. His

691
00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:27.119
skin has been sun brown for centuries. His nose and

692
00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:30.679
cheeks are broad, his lips are thick, his brows are heavy.

693
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:37.360
What is wrong with these people? He has sheltering eyes, sobbed, passionate, hot, unscrutable,

694
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:40.760
anomalist as he is, he is one of the distinct

695
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:44.719
types international life whose origin is fully known to us.

696
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:48.679
End quote like a fucking animal, because I get there. Yes,

697
00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:51.480
that's how I'm like, what the hell's wrong with them? Seriously,

698
00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:53.280
they really just because we're cute.

699
00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:55.440
They always hated us because we're cuterer than them.

700
00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:59.239
No, truly, they really just thought this applied to all Mexicans.

701
00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:01.000
But then all, oh God, look.

702
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:04.159
At his eyes and oldery eyes, so big, so brown,

703
00:38:04.440 --> 00:38:08.280
those beautiful eyebrows, the way they frame history, the shining

704
00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:13.360
dark hair, glowing hair they've been glowing their skin, and

705
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:19.000
the sun bronze. It's like an insane stupid Wow. I

706
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:19.800
fucking can't.

707
00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:21.440
This was not.

708
00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:23.920
Infuriating in the way that it's it's not gross like

709
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:26.639
the gross things that they have said about us. It's

710
00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:30.599
just like they're framing Mexicans that this exotic, random thing.

711
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:35.400
This is where the Latin lovers stereotype started.

712
00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:37.239
Yeah, and also like a man wrote that it wasn't

713
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:37.599
a woman.

714
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:40.280
Well, I guess that they were letting women write back then,

715
00:38:41.800 --> 00:38:45.199
So yeah, that is where the Latin lover comes from. Honestly. Wow. Yeah,

716
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:48.039
they really thought Mexicans were all the same, dark haired,

717
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:50.639
brown eyed people that don't deserve rights.

718
00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:55.719
Cuties. Although cute, they don't deserve rights. Yeah.

719
00:38:55.960 --> 00:38:58.199
And I know I've been talking a lot about California,

720
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:01.079
but again, this happened all over the West in Colorado.

721
00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:04.840
In Colorado from eighteen sixty to eighteen eighty four, twenty

722
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:09.239
three Mexicans were lynched. Wow. In eighteen fifty nine, Anglos

723
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:11.920
in Arizona did the same things that happened in eighteen

724
00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:15.960
fifty five at Ranchetia, California. Greenberry Bird that was his name.

725
00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:18.880
Greenberry Bird, a white man, stupid name, was sleeping in

726
00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:21.840
his room when two Mexican ranch hands snook in and

727
00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:24.400
killed him. He was found the next day at three pm,

728
00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:29.679
and the Arizonian described Greenberry Bird as quite a good natured,

729
00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:33.800
respectable young man who treated his men kindly. Others said

730
00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:36.119
he was like he led a gang of thugs and

731
00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:39.599
didn't pay his migrant employees and often beat them. That's

732
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:43.639
why they killed them. I mean, either way, white men

733
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:46.599
felt the need to avenge his murder. So John Page,

734
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:51.559
Bill aik Achy, I don't know, ake, Alfred Scott Achi,

735
00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:54.840
I'm just kinnnauky. That sounds even more wrong words. Yeah,

736
00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:59.159
Alfred Scott, Sam Anderson, Jack Pennington, and two men who

737
00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:01.320
were only known as Round and Bolt. I don't know,

738
00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:04.840
and don't ask me. They went along the Gila River

739
00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:08.039
kicking out all the Mexicans they saw. They went from

740
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:11.679
ranch to ranch, camp to camp, chasing Mexicans and as

741
00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:15.239
they ran away, killing them. Wow. They also killed indigenous

742
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:18.599
Yankee workers because they looked Mexican to them. Wow. Even

743
00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:20.760
back then they couldn't tell, and the number of those

744
00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:23.960
killed during this is unknown. This became known as the

745
00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:28.360
Sonoita massacre, and no one knows how many were killed.

746
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:32.039
But because of the killings, because of the massacre, migrant

747
00:40:32.039 --> 00:40:34.880
workers at mines and farms all left, which shut down

748
00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:39.599
operations immediately and devastated the seasons the crop of that season. Wow.

749
00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:43.840
And never mind that the murderers were not workers in

750
00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:46.960
these mines or farms. They weren't in these ranches or

751
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:49.440
camps that they went to after. They were this man's

752
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.440
own workers who were probably just tired of the abuse

753
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.639
and of not being paid. Yeah. And unlike other white

754
00:40:55.639 --> 00:40:59.760
men who participated in lyncheans, these four who enacted these

755
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:03.559
that massacre were arrested and tried because once they saw

756
00:41:03.639 --> 00:41:07.000
all the Mexicans leave, all their nice, cheap labor leave,

757
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:09.760
officials in Arizona wanted to make it clear that Mexicans

758
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:13.320
were welcome. But just like in other places, these white

759
00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:17.079
people in Arizona meant only some Mexicans are welcome, only

760
00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:20.559
the quote docile ones end quote, so that they could

761
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:25.320
control them and use them for their labor. Wow. Of course, Yeah,

762
00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:28.679
this kind of reminds me of Esuspiata's episode where they're

763
00:41:28.719 --> 00:41:31.440
fine with using us for our cheap labor. Yeah, but

764
00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:34.440
once we're inconvenient to them, they're fine with killing us

765
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:37.840
or kicking us out. And that applies to today. And

766
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:39.400
it's again precedented.

767
00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:39.719
Yep.

768
00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:47.159
I've been, you know, focusing on you know, California the most,

769
00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:50.480
but yeah, again, it happened everywhere anywhere there was white

770
00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:55.039
settlers in an area that was predominantly Mexican slash indigenous before.

771
00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:59.440
Right in eighteen fifty four, a vigilante committee in Austin,

772
00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:03.400
Texas expelled every quote landless Mexican who's not vouched for

773
00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:07.440
by respectable citizens end quote, oh my god. And the

774
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:10.639
Mexicans that owned land before in this time period were

775
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:14.800
the white Spanish Mexicans. They weren't even right like, they

776
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:17.079
weren't the brown Mexicans. And if they had to be

777
00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:19.760
vouched for by respectable citizens, these were all the white

778
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:23.119
people who are now techanos who've been in Texas for

779
00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:27.840
so long who hate immigrants, like, right, it's all connected. Yes,

780
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:32.880
I feel like that mean you know of Charlie, Yeah, yeah,

781
00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:36.159
or have I heard this system of vouching before that

782
00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:37.159
sounds so familiar.

783
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:37.559
It's not.

784
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:38.480
I'm not going to remember.

785
00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:40.800
Maybe maybe Vampires.

786
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:44.119
Of the North maybe, oh, maybebe it's set in this

787
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:49.599
time period. Yeah. In eighteen fifty six in Colorado County, Texas,

788
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.840
Mexicans were ordered to leave because the Anglo suspect their

789
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:56.840
Spanish speakers of helping enslaved black people escape into Mexico.

790
00:42:57.239 --> 00:42:59.639
And they were, they were, they were, they were, Yeah,

791
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:03.880
they were because they're not insane. Also, a lot of

792
00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:06.800
the Mexicans knew that, you know, they were tired of

793
00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:09.639
the treatment of Anglos towards them in these areas, and

794
00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:12.559
they knew that by helping inside black people escape, it

795
00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:15.760
was a way to undermine Anglo power in the area.

796
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:18.559
And that's resistance right there. That's community.

797
00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:19.079
Yeah.

798
00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:22.639
I've been wanting to do an episode on the underground

799
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:26.800
railroad from Texas to Mexico, but I just haven't gotten

800
00:43:26.840 --> 00:43:30.000
to it. That would be interesting. Why did to the list? Yeah,

801
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:32.800
if it's not already there, I remember seeing it. Okay.

802
00:43:33.480 --> 00:43:36.400
One of the most deadly summers for Mexicans in Texas

803
00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:39.719
took place in eighteen fifty seven, and it's known now

804
00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:42.920
as the cart Wars, which I didn't know either. Cart

805
00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:48.239
wars cart Forty masked men attacked a group of Mexicans

806
00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:52.679
leading a train of seventeen train carts heading towards San Antonio.

807
00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:54.800
And this was common. There was a way to get

808
00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:57.639
it was a job leading this merchandise into you know,

809
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:00.840
the US. Many of the men leading the train managed

810
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:03.239
to escape this attack, except for fifty seven year old

811
00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:06.960
Antonio Delgado, who was shot fourteen times by these men.

812
00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:10.639
These anglos. These anglos worked in transporting goods and they

813
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:14.119
would attack their Mexican competition. They would then destroy their property,

814
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:18.480
steal it and kill Mexicans. Wow. And many of the

815
00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:21.239
Mexicans who were killed during this time period, this summer,

816
00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:23.519
it was literally just the summer. Their bodies were never

817
00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:27.320
found and many of these killings were done by hanging

818
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:29.960
them on a tree. And I don't know how. I'm

819
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:34.039
not sure I'm pronouncing this right, but goldiad Texas or gliad,

820
00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:37.320
I don't know. It's go lad, I don't know either.

821
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:41.639
And this where the highest number of lynchings took place

822
00:44:41.639 --> 00:44:43.599
in this summer because it was right in the middle

823
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:47.039
of the coast of Texas, heading towards San Antonio, where

824
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:50.800
all this merchandise, was heading all these goods, and because

825
00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:53.480
the Mexicans were better at this job, the Anglos who

826
00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:56.079
were doing the same job were killing them. That tree

827
00:44:56.119 --> 00:44:59.119
is marked today by a plaque that talks about the

828
00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:02.360
cart Wars, and this tree is known as the Cartwar oak.

829
00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:08.480
Also the tree most used for lyn cheens in California,

830
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:11.719
the oak tree, because it was the strongest tree and

831
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:14.360
it's old. And so one of the books I read

832
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:18.280
is a journalist who went and took pictures of all

833
00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:21.039
these trees that are still there, and the pictures are

834
00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:23.360
on the book of these trees, and yeah, are they're

835
00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:26.119
still there? Oak trees live a long time. Yeah. Anyway,

836
00:45:26.239 --> 00:45:29.840
so back to the cart Wars. The Mexican government filed

837
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:34.000
several complaints with Texas and the US government about these killings.

838
00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:37.800
When Texas finally responded to these complaints, they did so

839
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:40.280
by trying to send a militia to defend Mexicans. But

840
00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:43.239
it was pointless because by then Mexican workers had already

841
00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:44.920
found a different route. They're like, we're not going that

842
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:47.840
way anymore. They need to do anything, And the Mexican

843
00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:51.199
government didn't investigate this, and they found that at least

844
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:55.519
seventy five Mexicans were killed during this one summer. Wow,

845
00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:59.360
in this one route in Texas. Oh my god. That's

846
00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:02.280
a lot for that timeframe, like short amount of time summer,

847
00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:05.800
one summer. And this is a on the low end

848
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:09.280
of estimates because some remains were never found. Wow. And

849
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:12.840
these are just some examples of violence Mexicans face and

850
00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:16.400
the environment in which these lynchings were taking place towards

851
00:46:16.440 --> 00:46:19.800
Mexicans in the US. That's part one. That was only

852
00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:22.320
part one? Were those part one? You were not kidding

853
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:26.840
about it being depressing. It's very depressing. And it's like this,

854
00:46:26.840 --> 00:46:31.000
this is the history. This is the attitude that these

855
00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:34.239
people passed on. I feel like that's what is the

856
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:40.840
most hurtful about it. That besides, like there's there's no actual,

857
00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:45.599
like physical act of lynching now, but there's this mentality

858
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:50.920
and racism and noophobia against Latinos Latinez remains, and we're

859
00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:53.119
talking about like from the eighteen hundreds, And I'm like,

860
00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:54.760
how have these people not changed?

861
00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:55.880
I don't know.

862
00:46:56.280 --> 00:46:58.880
Right from the moment they set foot into these lands

863
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:01.519
that were never there, they were doing this right, and

864
00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:05.679
today they are doing this right. I did I think

865
00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:08.519
it's ridiculous when you know, whenever there's always talk about

866
00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:12.360
immigration and land back and stuff like that, they're like, well,

867
00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:15.039
how far back do you have to go? And I'm like,

868
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:19.079
far enough, so you go back to Europe, bitch, that's

869
00:47:19.079 --> 00:47:20.679
how far we have to go? Fin enough so you

870
00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:24.880
go back to England. Yeah, And it's it's it's wild

871
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:28.880
that like this treatment of Mexicans isn't even a brief

872
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:33.360
sentence in textbooks, and even we find not obviously not

873
00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:36.760
elementary schools, not middle schools, but high schools. Please. Yeah,

874
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:40.320
like eleventh graders in US history can learn about this.

875
00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:45.599
This is US history, this is yeah history of violence, Yeah,

876
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:49.920
and racism. In part two, I will be sharing specific

877
00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:53.280
cases of lynchings, including the only documented lynching of a

878
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:56.840
Mexican women in California that I've heard about. You have

879
00:47:56.920 --> 00:47:59.920
heard about it, okay, And then the next part is

880
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:02.880
where I'm hoping to dive into Texas specifically and the

881
00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:06.119
Texas Rangers. But man, it's so much to read, And

882
00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:07.880
then I had to keep scoring, like I don't have

883
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:10.239
my books with me. But if I show you, I

884
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:12.920
can imagine I'll send you a picture. I will send

885
00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:15.920
you a picture she posted on our story I will,

886
00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:19.840
I will, but man, yeah that is yeah, that is

887
00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:31.039
part one. Wow. Shout out to our Patreon members Sarah Bred, Marilyn, Desiree, Mariah, Michelle,

888
00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:35.159
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889
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890
00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:40.599
of the episode, now, it's a lot of work, Yes,

891
00:48:41.039 --> 00:48:44.840
it really is. I enjoy it, like I enjoy reading

892
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:47.840
about everything we and talking about everything we learn, but

893
00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:51.119
it is hard to keep up with it is, especially

894
00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:53.599
the just the research aspect. Man, how many books I'm

895
00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:55.920
reading for this, like three or four? Oranger four? Yeah,

896
00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:59.280
four different books. So we'll be back next week with

897
00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:02.679
part two and other than that, we hope this was

898
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899
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900
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